Our large number of distance relationships seems to make this a lot more "normal" a reaction it might have been in bygone eras. These days, I often feel closer to many of my on-line friends than I do with friends in the so-called real world.
For example, I'd only met Grace Paley a couple of times in social settings but when she died it was a sadness. I'd spent more time with her husband Bob at Camp Social Ecology and feel badly, albeit at a distance, for him as well.
I wasn't a "fan" of either. Just an acquaintance. Good people both.
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Date: 2007-09-17 09:00 pm (UTC)For example, I'd only met Grace Paley a couple of times in social settings but when she died it was a sadness. I'd spent more time with her husband Bob at Camp Social Ecology and feel badly, albeit at a distance, for him as well.
I wasn't a "fan" of either. Just an acquaintance. Good people both.