For the past couple of weeks, I have been waking up early in the morning to make my rounds in DC and connect with as many National Guard reservists deployed in our nation’s capital. This routine of mine gained even more of an impetus when Twitter and Facebook banned me within a few days of each other, both citing the same content I posted for violating their Orwellian “community standards”. I learned a long time ago to make merengue pie when life gives you lemons; instead of dwelling in grievance mode, I decided to unplug and hit the road.
What I have learned during this forced hiatus from social media—limited as it was for I circumvented their suspension by using my secondary accounts—is something I already knew a long time ago. Where social media aborts connections while it tethers us through wires, face-to-face encounters lead to profound discoveries and deep kinships. A hundred retweets and a thousand likes yet they all fall by the wayside compared to friendships that are formed when two strangers bump into each other and get to know one another soul to soul...continued...
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