Braking down the barriers

Have you noticed how strangers great one another? We are not really looking one another in the eyes anymore? Other than living in a high speed era and being a career driven generation together with new advanced internet communication tools, people are losing their touch to personal interaction and networking skills. The lack of eye contact shows their fear to let strangers into their lives.

We rather email before we pick up the phone and speak to one another.To some extent even social media is making its contribution to this dilemma. Our conversations are mostly straight to the point as we do not have time to show interest in someone else’s life, in fact we have so much of our own problems we cannot really care. However, greeting a stranger with a smile and making honest eye contact to open up to one another, cost us absolutely nothing.

It is a simple start to braking down the barriers that we put up to try and keep strangers out. We owe this to our country to build relationships and trust, to stand united as one and finally recover from the damages done by apartheid.