Yesterday's post about Terry Reid contained the short sentence "Another broken link" to described his passing. That phrase just arrived out of nowhere. As I thought about it a little I saw that life may be seen as a series of links, joining up to form bonds, chains, whatever. Some links stay a long time, through strength, persistence, accident, necessity, family and of course love. Sometimes the links break quickly, without warning because of argument, distance, change or death. How many links have I had? How many have survived? How many broke because of me and the things I did? Did I fix some on the way? Are some links unbreakable? Predictable and common reflection passes the time in an odd but satisfying way. Ho hum ...
This small stream of thought was not inspired by Linked In or the actual wider landscape of social media - nothing against it but I'm not a member. Only when I'd thought about the word "link", somewhat in isolation, did I make the obvious connection with our corrupted and manipulated socials. These modern "links" are a bit different from those we might have made just a few years ago.
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