Let's Get Personal

Day 6 - Planned Acts of Kindness (PAK) Challenge and it's getting challenging. Yesterday's challenge was to call a family member or friend you have not talked to in a while and tell them you were thinking of them.

Now family matters are personal stuff. Usually when you try to ask people too many questions about their family they get uncomfortable. You run the risk of getting too personal. Yesterday's challenge made me get personal.

I realized two important things because of yesterday's PAK - 1. It's easier for me to stay in contact with work related associates than some of my relatives and 2. Even though we have more methods of communication (text, email, facebook, twitter), we are losing the personal touch.

So yesterday I called a couple of my aunts and an uncle who I had not spoken to in a while. We had great conversations and instead of just firing off a text or poking them on fb, it allowed us to get personal. We could hear each others laugh, talk about nothing and simply catch up. If you didn't do it, try it. Let's get personal - call (or if it's possible, visit) a family or friend you've not talked to in a while. You'll be glad you did (and maybe they will too).