Gotcha! Finally! Hook me up! Connections…
Gotcha! Finally! Hook me up!
These 5 words showed up in my Facebook Messenger window on December 30th at 10:16AM. To my shock and delight, an old friend, Phil, was sending me a message!
My immediate response was to accept his request…
“Hello!”
…and then I send him my New Year’s Bitmoji:
…and this one…
…with the caption…
“Can this really be you?”
And then…
A few moments later I receive the following message:
“Lol”
To which I reply:
Is that all I get? Lol????
…and then I receive this text:
I’m all teary eyed…my hubby
is laughing at me! I’ve missed
you and think of you so often!
Our texting went on for about 35 minutes with lots of funny messages back and forth and then we had to have a real conversation via phone as this mode of communication was too slow for Phil. The next 1.5 hours flew by and when I hung up the phone I immediately texted Phil again via Messenger:
You know you have a good
friend when you can just pick
up where you left off in an hour
long conversation! Happy
New Year to you both.
…to which he replied…
Right back atchya kiddo! I’m
still smiling! Love ya! Happy
New Year to you all! XOs
We hadn’t spoken to each other in about 17 years! Crazy, I know…life happens and time went by. But here we were…picking up the conversation like it was yesterday…now that is a CONNECTION.
Imagine if our students came back to school after Christmas holidays and connected with one another in such deep ways…a connection to one person in the building be it adult or child!
Take the time to CONNECT with all students:
- say their name out loud
- smile
- look them in the eye
- pat them on the shoulder
- high-fives in the hallway
- greet them at the door
- let them know that you have missed them
- tell them you are excited to see them
Do whatever it takes to make that CONNECTION…
I know I am still smiling about mine…and so is Phil and that makes my heart happy!
