There are several reasons why working together is difficult but if we work to overcome these obstacles, we can experience the benefits of relationships that many people enjoy. When we identify the obstacles that are keeping us from doing life together, then we can overcome them.
What are some of those obstacles?
OBSTACLES TO DOING LIFE TOGETHER
Independence: It’s one of the core essentials that we value as a society. We brag about our independence. We even have a day to celebrate it. As a parent and a father, I take pride in my children showing their independence as they get older. From the time they cried, “mine!” as a toddler to their “testing the waters” teenage years, every step of growth is moving towards independence.
Technology: Technology has also revolutionized the way we connect with one another. Dan Doriani’s “The New Man: Becoming a Man After God’s Heart” says this about technology and mobility: “Mobility is part of the culture of freedom that Americans treasure, but it destroys friendships by severing the regular contact friends need. It ends the joyful retelling of shared triumphs and sorrows—the tales of the unbearable boss, the impossible task accomplished.
Mobility separates friends, and men recover slowly because they hardly try to recover. Mobility encourages rootlessness. As we haul up the anchors of family, history, and tradition, we become vulnerable to the call to reinvent ourselves.” How true! Do you sense that technology may be robbing us of our connectivity?
What other obstacles do you see from people being able to do life together?
