Hi, my name is....

My brother, Jamison, pointed something out the other day. He said to our mom, “What social art is dying and in desperate need of recovery? It is the art of introduction.” This is so true. Young people do not, or maybe don’t even know how to, introduce themselves or especially their friend or acquaintances to other individuals. Jamison brought how he has been taken by a friend to their church, and his friend never introduced him to anyone at the church. Fortunately, Jamison is far from shy and is very capable of speaking to strangers. This being the case he did fine on his own. But, I see it again and again. You can go up and speak to, a young person especially, that is with a friend (or friends) and they rarely say, “Oh, I would like you to meet So-and-So”, or, “This is Bob”. How hard is that? Now, I must say that I am not innocent of this whole lack-of-introducing-someone-thing, or even making the effort to introduce myself, but I defiantly want to improve that.


I think that electronic communication is a wonderful thing, and that it has made life easier in so many ways. With social networks we get so use to just letting “friend” read our profiles and statuses, and vice versa, that we rarely even bother to communicate with individuals any more. We are all just making statement at one another. I think we get caught up in this bubble that has made it harder for us when we do socialize away from technology. I hope we will rejuvenate the’ “Hello, my name is Hannah” in this generation. It will do us some good.