I love my cell phone as much as the next person. I can send pictures to my blog and it's the key to a world of information available by text. Simply marvelous. How did we ever live without them?
But people do me a favour and don't bother to answer your phone if you are in the crapper! Go ahead, admit it. You've been in the loo and have done your best so that you don't transmit the strain or the plop. Forgive the scatalogical inferences. I bring it up just to make the point that the addiction is real. I firmly believe that people can no longer just be alone with themselves, walking down the street, looking at the sky. Every moment has to be connected. If you are not onthe phone with someone then you are no one. Scary thought that.
Recently I watched a teen, out on a lovely whale watching excursion with her family, stare cross-eyed at her mobile, texting and being texted. Sounds like a new state of being,doesn't it? It is! I think we are about to see a new generation of younger people developing serious eye issue. People will evolve with eyes even more closely spaced--in direct proportion to the miniaturization of the devices.
It makes me just a little sad, I suppose, the the cell phone is so present in all our lives, mine included. Sometimes I just like to have a moment to myself and leave the cell phone in the closet.
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I forgot my cell phone at home today, I noticed it on my way to work and panic hit me! What if I need to call someone?? Or if someone is trying to call me right this minute?? I worried about this all the way to work, then I realized that it takes me half an hour to get to where I work. I have a phone in my office. There are innumerable phones in the library and even more in the hospital nextdoor. I have e-mail. I have Skype. I have MSN Messenger. What am I worried about? But still, being away from my cell phone feels ...not good.
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