{"id":1195,"date":"2024-01-13T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2024-01-14T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T03:45:56","slug":"so-near-yet-so-far-bridging-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/so-near-yet-so-far-bridging-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"So Near, Yet So Far: Bridging the Gap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I talk about links and connections I am not referring to airports or airlines. The rant here is about us humans in full protein form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social media has made &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>connections<\/em><\/span> to be the vanilla metric&#8217; to thirst after. And we do wave the number of connections flag with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All these said, there is a yawning gap. We all want to be connected. But we shy away from being the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>connector<\/em><\/span>. We want to be respected. But, are you delivering on that front with your side of the bargain? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Trust deficit is a collective responsibility<\/em><\/span>. We want to be trusted but do you <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>trust<\/em><\/span>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FIED-TESTED.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>There is so much opportunity we are leaving on the table<\/em><\/span>. Connections, hope, optimism, progress, resolution, possibilities are all birds of the same feather. A <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>collective bias<\/em><\/span> can give it immense energy and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have to wait for everyone to get going. It can begin with someone. You.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you wear a new lens and begin to re-imagine, in a lot of cases, you are offered perspectives that are better, richer and game changing. You might find the video on the below link interesting or even inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_0FK2N9bRA4\"><strong>Knew Thinking. New Possibilities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I talk about links and connections I am not referring to airports or airlines. The rant here is about us humans in full protein form. &nbsp; Social media has made &#8216;connections to be the vanilla metric&#8217; to thirst after. And we do wave the number of connections flag with impunity. &nbsp; All these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/so-near-yet-so-far-bridging-the-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Near, Yet So Far: Bridging the Gap!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}