I want long term relationships

Or worded better, I want to keep the relationships I have and make them grow into long term relationships. The older I get the more I realize I must actively participate is keeping connected with everyone. Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace are fine for updating everyone on my latest trip or I have a toothache, but it really doesn’t give me the space, platform, or audience I need to “share me as I am today”.

Connecting with people and friends in the real world
rather than the virtual world

I think updating everyone has to include everyone actually “getting what I am saying”. It’s hard to do that in a post on a public web site. I mean, just how much time are they spending thinking about what I just said? Maybe they just read someone else’s post and that set a mood that is shading my update in a color that isn’t me.

Setting the space for connecting

I need to set a place where I can communicate and be heard. I have found that setting up the Do Tell party and inviting some people over creates that place. No big deal, it just happens. Maybe it’s just the tradition of playing a game with other people usually means fun, or maybe it’s just because I am getting acknowledged for finding some time to host a Do Tell party, or maybe it’s just my friends loving the idea that we can get together and connect in the real world rather than the virtual world. I don’t know all the “how and whys” of Do Tell creating a space to connect and update, but it just happens and it’s fun.

How can I update my friends and reconnect them to “who I am today”?

And “what am I about” brings up brings up other issues for me. I am changing. Today is not yesterday. I am not sure I feel the need to “network” these changes “blow by blow” to all my friends, ala Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, but I would like them to get updated every now and then. How can I update my friends and reconnect them to “who I am today”? Even worse a situation is the lost connection with the really important people in my life. How can I update my family and partner and reconnect them to “who I am today”? This is a real need if I, my friends, and family are going to travel into the future together.

Open the game, setup the board, invite your friends over, roll the dice, play the card, connect!