It's funny how we get so busy in life that we forget to pick our head up and look.
I see people talking on their "blue tooth", cell phones and texting all of the time. I see them doing this while driving, walking, running and doing this every waking moment of their life. Their head is always down. I will be walking down the mall on my meal break and people will run into me while talking, texting or doing whatever. I want to say "Hello", but they won't hear me.
This is amazing to me. I can remember when we didn't have cell phones, computers or even answering machines. I grew up in a home where we had one phone, a black dial up phone. Can you imagine? We had one black and white TV with 3 or 4 channels, and we had to get up to change the channel. No remote, just a dial that we had to turn. And guess what? My family and I watched TV together. Didn't I have a great childhood?
I honestly miss those days.
Yesterday at the mall a lady was going down the escalator and fell. I don't think she was on a cell phone, but it made me think about it. I use to ride down the escalator reading my messages on my phone. I won't do that again!
Thanks for reading, life is good..........
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5 comments:
We have a cell phone, but it's for emergency use only, so we never even turn it on. I never could get into this "texting" thing either. I sure do like my laptop and internet though!
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You brought back some memorys for me. Yes one black phone one old black an white tv with a rubber band holding the channel dial in place. :) Life was so simple and we thought we had it all, and I guess we did we had love and togetherness,
Thanks for a great post.
I think I will truly miss the "pay as you go" type of cell phone I have here in Vienna. The thing cost me €35 to start with, then I put €20 worth of time it, and since incoming calls are free, I hardly ever use that up in a YEAR. I don't think we have such a thing in Canada, but if we do, that's all I'll need whenever we move back.
But yes, without internet I'd go bonkers.
Texting? Why? I've never "got" that whole concept.
I remember those good olde days. as well. They were great! The truth is though, I would not want to go back.
What needs to happen is that some folks who are totally hooked up to their virtual world, should just get a real world life and pay attention to what is going on around them-especially when they are moving:)
I sure do miss the good old day's.
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