So How Ya Doing!!

My children as they are entering their teenage years, are currently giving me a fascinating insight into modern day relationships and I find this new way of getting to know each other rather absorbing, at times.  I watch as my son cuts through all the things that I spent years finding out with the few keystrokes of a whatsapp and I consider if there is not something to be said for this new way.  In my generation we spent so much time trying to get to know the other person before we felt safe to enter into a permanent relationship and this involved a series of dates and actual time spent together, but today the information is available in so many forms that by the time going steady or marriage comes, one wonders why so many modern relationships do not last.  After all, the parties have every bit of info about the other person?  Perhaps this in itself is the reason that relationships do fail, because the parties realise very quickly that they can ask the same questions of another person easily via a social platform and if they get a better or more preferable series of answers then they can rather switch over to that person, before they get too committed.  Shopping around and the options available are just about in every area of life and the unknown is no longer an attractive feature.  We teach our kids to ask questions and to look up the info before they go into any venture, job or relationship.  I am still somewhat undecided on the topic, because I think that there should be an element of surprise and compromise to make a relationship work in its entirety, but I am willing to see the positives in this approach that the youth adopt today and certainly think that when it comes to my business next year I have made a decision to become far more adventurous in finding out what my clients want and getting to know their needs and requirements a lot more than in the past.  I also want to make available my skills and experiences and hope that our Firm will also become noticed, in the arena we are playing in.  It is sometimes a scary thought that you could end up with the wrong person and before the commitment is sealed forever (and you have regrets and frustrations) perhaps the answer is to be more adventurous to find out what game you are playing in and to take the risks that match your requirements instead of merely "hanging in" for the sake of the way it has been done in the past. Having said that I think that our generation has the benefit of being able to use the modern technology, but at the same time being adaptable to change and a greater resolve to persist in what we are good at and this should help our generation lead the next into the future.  We may be a little slower on the information gathering, but I am sure that we can still achieve the best results needed from every situation and every relationship.