On Coming and Going

Things have changed when people come and go.

Once-distant people looked anticipated meeting – real time for unknowns to become known.

But now most of us are in constant and close contact in virtual time. The only unknown is that which we don’t want to be known. There is no catching up, for that which is desired to be known is already known.

And thus departures and returns are also diminished, for those who go and those who stay need never lose contact.