Forget your phone
Hang on let me send a twitter update, create this instagram post, first let me take a selfie, record this song, play angry birds, send a snap chat, take a photo and send this text. PUT AWAY YOUR PHONE. No one likes a person who is texting during a meal, event, or outing you were invited to for conversation, social interaction, and interpersonal connection. I promise you the mobiles (I'm guilty of this too) will still be there when we get back. Better yet, throw it in your trunk. If you are on vacation, leave it in the hotel. Work can wait until you return. There is such option as an out of office reply.
I see people all over hugging their cellular devices as if their lives depend on the phone to keep them warm at night. Guaranteed if you keep staring at the phone, they won't text you back, especially if it's only been two minutes (super guilty there). Memories are made to pictures in our minds and hearts, captured by merely putting away the distraction and focusing on the people right in front of us. I tend to reach for my phone when I am super lonely and text or call people I haven't spoken to in years; not a good idea. There is a reason you aren't talking to them right now, or if you did reach out and they didn't respond, you can't feel badly, because you are searching for a time filler, or you can't seem to concentrate on the world around you, because you feel it isn't that interesting, or you flat out haven't tried... well it's a relative, figurative, subjective opinion of course.
Forget your phone. If you are at work, the tasks will pile up, if that chat with your significant other or your best friend continues till noon and before you know it, you have wasted half a day, staring back at a little screen waiting for the next news. Seems if we have a special moment now, in today's society, even cameras seem to be set aside, and phones are everywhere, at concerts, coffee shops, grocery stores, camping trips(shocker, but oh they are there), sporting events, etc.
I saw a wedding in the park near the capitol, and heard the wife say to husband she wanted to change their Facebook statuses to married, so she pulled out her cell, and everyone in the audience waited while she updated her relationship status and to announces,"I'm not single anymore." Yikes! No offense lady, but who cares. It's your day, and that's all you can think about?
I saw a video online entitled 'forget your phone' and it features this woman who goes through a whole day and evening phoneless but illustrates the people around her, who have theirs with them the whole time, and shows what they miss. For her, it was her boyfriend on a run, and he was on the phone, talking to someone ignoring her; a birthday party where they recorded a little girl and her cake, no observation of facial expressions, awareness of others and their needs, none of it, but the device in front of them. No one was paying attention.
The worst part is, shouting over a device that shouldn't have any power over human conversation in the first place, but yet it does. Imagine being a pastor, and the entire congregation isn't listening to a word you say, because they are more engrossed in the updates at their fingertips. Ouch. Pretending to be on your phone, so that annoying guy will go away, or when he doesn't, you simply try to lift your hand in the air, walking away further and in circles for cell service. Sad.
Put the phones away, enjoy the moment, of a baby's first walking steps, the time he or she tickles you till you are laughing hysterically, or when your grandpa tells a good joke. Be there, before it's gone, cause if you miss it, and your are stuck on a bright little screen, you can't get that moment back. FORGET YOUR PHONE, the world around you is waiting.
I see people all over hugging their cellular devices as if their lives depend on the phone to keep them warm at night. Guaranteed if you keep staring at the phone, they won't text you back, especially if it's only been two minutes (super guilty there). Memories are made to pictures in our minds and hearts, captured by merely putting away the distraction and focusing on the people right in front of us. I tend to reach for my phone when I am super lonely and text or call people I haven't spoken to in years; not a good idea. There is a reason you aren't talking to them right now, or if you did reach out and they didn't respond, you can't feel badly, because you are searching for a time filler, or you can't seem to concentrate on the world around you, because you feel it isn't that interesting, or you flat out haven't tried... well it's a relative, figurative, subjective opinion of course.
Forget your phone. If you are at work, the tasks will pile up, if that chat with your significant other or your best friend continues till noon and before you know it, you have wasted half a day, staring back at a little screen waiting for the next news. Seems if we have a special moment now, in today's society, even cameras seem to be set aside, and phones are everywhere, at concerts, coffee shops, grocery stores, camping trips(shocker, but oh they are there), sporting events, etc.
I saw a wedding in the park near the capitol, and heard the wife say to husband she wanted to change their Facebook statuses to married, so she pulled out her cell, and everyone in the audience waited while she updated her relationship status and to announces,"I'm not single anymore." Yikes! No offense lady, but who cares. It's your day, and that's all you can think about?
I saw a video online entitled 'forget your phone' and it features this woman who goes through a whole day and evening phoneless but illustrates the people around her, who have theirs with them the whole time, and shows what they miss. For her, it was her boyfriend on a run, and he was on the phone, talking to someone ignoring her; a birthday party where they recorded a little girl and her cake, no observation of facial expressions, awareness of others and their needs, none of it, but the device in front of them. No one was paying attention.
The worst part is, shouting over a device that shouldn't have any power over human conversation in the first place, but yet it does. Imagine being a pastor, and the entire congregation isn't listening to a word you say, because they are more engrossed in the updates at their fingertips. Ouch. Pretending to be on your phone, so that annoying guy will go away, or when he doesn't, you simply try to lift your hand in the air, walking away further and in circles for cell service. Sad.
Put the phones away, enjoy the moment, of a baby's first walking steps, the time he or she tickles you till you are laughing hysterically, or when your grandpa tells a good joke. Be there, before it's gone, cause if you miss it, and your are stuck on a bright little screen, you can't get that moment back. FORGET YOUR PHONE, the world around you is waiting.
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