Today I realized something that I already knew. Is that possible? Whatever. The point is that I am going to make a point to change it. My Blackberry has become a permanently attached appendage, and my health insurance does not cover cracked display. Our cell phones are our absolute life lines. I find myself wondering how the hell anyone ever got a boyfriend before texting and God forbid you ever get lost while driving and had to resort to one of those map contraptions. I have no idea how to read a street map. I suppose it has something to do with evolution, that knowledge is now obsolete and soon we'll be scoffing at GPSes. So not only has cell phones made us completely inept at simple tasks like reading a map, but we are socially backwards because of them too! I text people sitting 2 feet from me sometimes...and you know you've done it too! A text allows you to say something without actually saying it. we gauge our relationships on these tiny messages made of 100 characters and the length of time it takes to receive one.
-"IT'S BEEN 12 MINUTES, WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?!"
-honey, he's probably just brushing his teeth, or at the gym, or performing CPR on a senior citizen
-but he ALWAYS texts back right away!!!!! obviously he hates me.
see?! instant destruction. we walk around trying to reach out and connect, while in reality we're saying nothing. SO tomorrow I am going to turn off my phone and turn off facebook and be free for a day.
i might go crazy :)
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