New York Minute

I woke up one morning realizing that it has been a while since I’ve had a good telephone conversation. Work phone conversations excluded. I am referring to the hour-long conversation about everything, anything, and most of the time – about nothing. Where the conversation starts with “hey, what’s up?” then evolves to reminiscing, then to future dreams and plans, and without realizing it, the conversation had gone full circle.


It has been a while since I’ve been involved in one of those crazy, chaotic conference calls where our phone’s three-way calling feature was fully-utilized. Conversation nowadays has been dwindled down to forwarded e-mails and one-line messages and comments.

Has life been really that hectic for all of us that we can no longer spare a few moments to do those kinds of communication? Or has social network sites, emails, and SMS killed our ability and the need to do so? How did we end up reducing our lives into a New York Minute?