Okay, so they’ve become a replacement for landlines in great measure. I guess I understand that, though I don’t use mine for that purpose. As I’ve mentioned in the past, it’s not a comfortable instrument on which to talk and I dislike “Bluetooth.”
Perhaps that’s progress. Well, more than that. Remember back to the old days when sitcoms had teenagers on the phone for what was portrayed to be hours on a 30 minute show? Parents would holler to get them off the device. I’m wondering if we haven’t reverted to that.
After all, as in my recent post regarding Facebook, what compels us to have the need to be so well-connected; more than that: So constantly connected.
Have we come to a place in our lives, or to some extent, society in which everything, no matter how minute, requires sharing of some sort? More importantly, do we ever consider that, perhaps, this sort of minutiae is just plain boring?
“Hi, I’ll be there in five minutes,” someone told me on my cell the other day. “You’ll get here when you do,” I responded, “Why the hell are you calling me? I don’t find it a courtesy and personally, I think the fact that you’re late is discourteous.”
The point is that at the end of the day, we’re not that important and very few of us are that interesting. If you haven’t realized it by now, your friends, close and good as they may be, often simply endure this foolishness.
I think it’s time for all of us to become more thoughtful, not in a “courteous” manner, but rather, in the vein of thinking about things: life, the world and so forth.
We’ve done far to little of that and look at our human condition, to say nothing of social and national conditions.
