socializing...

Hey all!

I'm writing this blog to keep my thoughts in one place and over time this page has hybrid-ed into something that is not specifically attached to Budapest. I'm feeling that I'm becoming an a-social type. Started to ask myself if that is good or not, because, yeah, we all need people around us so...I asked myself "What does it mean to be social?"...
Before, when there was no social networks it was completely normal not to see someone for months and communicate via post that delivered messages in weeks and sometimes months...but people were keeping it up, loving each other, feeling each other being separated by seas and mountains... I met an old engineer once in a train and he said that he was living and working in Vladivostok when he was young and his wife was from Moscow and they could not see each other for months...but he never cheated on her. And I believe him. I'm not sure if I'm supporting Max Cavalera in his nihilistic approach of returning to the roots or back to the primitive...but...are we evolving now? Should we try to adjust ourselves to the speed the technology dictates? Or there should be letters, gifts, nice small things that can only exist when a human being actually spends sometime to make them? Writing a letter...not typing it and sending via facebook, but, you know...with a pen...pens are dying out? Maybe it's good, soon we won't need to cut wood as everything is going to be electronic and we will contribute to the GREEN. But damn...am I missing something?.. People...are communicating much more nowadays that they have ever been able to in the past but why do I constantly having the feeling that the walls are getting thiner, means of communication are getting better, but we are getting farther from each other?
Or maybe that's just me...maybe I'm renunciating from being social in the modern understanding. Am I too weak to handle the new speed? Am I the putrid example of grumpy representatives of the OLD generation? This world was able to store lots of lifestyles...I hope that there will be place for me there :)

Bless,
D.