A nation of strangers

Today I heard that the teen age son of a family living two houses down from mine, got killed in a motorcycle accident two weeks ago. (I was out of town when this happened). Anyway, when I called my neighbors (who live next to this unlucky family) for more information, they had no idea that this had happened. They have been living next to each other for over 18 years, and still had no contact!

We live in a nation of strangers, all isolated sitting in front of their TV's and computers. This sucks .. as Americans would say!