Once they are gone, the world will never be the same

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There are few left on this earth that remember a time when technology didn’t absorb us. Grandparents and great grandparents born in the early 20th century can recall a more simple time. Often they tell stories of games, dinner table conversations, living most days outdoors and having to use their mind for amusement. These are the people the young generation mocks because they can’t properly use a cell phone, or social media. But what they can do, and what they can teach us is more valuable than any other lesson available on earth today. When they leave us, many of their stories, their experiences, and their mannerisms will too. We will become more and more disconnected to human interaction and what that feels like. As the years go on and the elders pass away, there will be no one left to tell us why we should put our phones down. There will be no more phone calls on the other end with people who would rather talk than text.

Handwriting will be a thing of the past as will moments where we gaze into each others eyes while speaking. The social addiction of our phones and devices will have no more barrier to fight through. Because isn’t it our elders that tell us to remember to look each other in the eyes when we speak? Isn’t it our elders that remind us that beautiful days should not be wasted behind a video game console?

The world changed right before their eyes and they couldn’t possibly keep up because what felt good for them was the memories of a cup of milk at the kitchen table with mama. Not a phone, nor a tv, nor a video game could replace what secret to human experience that they hold. Covid-19 has been killing our elders off at a faster rate than anyone could have foreseen. My hope for you today is that you read this post, realize that time is running out, and learn from those who know better than us on how to be human.

Tech Savvy and Braindead

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If you were born after 1992, your life will be completely consumed by the technological world around you.  You will have at least one device on you at all times that connects you to an invisible world called THE INTERNET.  Instead of physical interaction with people on a daily basis, you will communicate alone with a device that holds your entire life in your hands.

If all you know about the world is being connected to what many elders would call, technology, how are you in control of the world around you.  For a moment observe your surroundings.  Look at the person next to you sitting a few feet away and watch as they glare into that device.  A device so powerful it drains all of our attention.  Try interacting with that person and watch as they are drawn back to their device.  Will you ever really cherish life’s precious moments, or will you be expending all of your energy into a mindless piece of humanity?  Look around you once more and pretend it is 50 years ago.

The same person sitting next to you would have no choice but to look up and transmit the energy we all need to morally survive.   Real physically energy between us as people is necessary for humanity to survive, yet we can’t help but be connected.   Watch as the internet desperately sucks in your energy by creating standards that are soulless.  The commercials on every site flying by at every moment, put forth by the same companies that strive for your addictive nature.

You are a generation of young people absorbed by a non-living entity that has found a way to trick you into believing it is a way of life.  Run by private executives, with personal goals and purpose, the internet  has found a way to take life’s most precious gift in your life.  TIME is all we are given.  Time to experience and enjoy the warmth of each other.

Try to remember in your young life the last time you sat down and spent a significant amount of time disconnected to the internet and connected to a loved one.   These moments won’t happen very much in your life, if at all.  Your memories as you grow old and near the end will be spent mostly with a “thing”.  You won’t even understand life without the internet.  And if the private entities that run that “thing” decide to shut down or turn off, will you be left BRAINDEAD?

Generation Overstimulation

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overstimulation.jpegJust as I grab my computer because I came upon a thought that moved me, I realized I cannot stop thinking.  Have you ever wondered how it was when computers were not in existence and the internet was something of the imagination?  Did you ever stop and think that there was once a time when people sat still and took in the moment?  What that must’ve been like.  To be disconnected and at peace with one thought and one focus.  Imagine not thinking about the Facebook status updates, or the need to take a picture and share it.  Imagine not having every show and movie that you love at the click of your finger.  How could we all have survived without those video and computer games and apps?  The question is not HOW we survived, but what was in like LIVING IN THAT MOMENT.

When I think of technology I don’t simply think of the computer screen I glare at or the newest iPhone.  I also tend to think of the not so obvious but vital advancements.  Had technology not been there, my glasses and contacts would not be a part of my daily life, which in return would mean that I couldn’t be watching my life in 20/20 vision.  I think about my mother who was able to fight cancer because of the treatments and advancements.  I also think about my grandparents who are in their eighties and able to live life as healthy active human beings.

Let’s break it down even further so that we can see this point of view clearly.  Is technology the cause of our overstimulation or is it something even more enticing?   With technology came the internet and with the internet came SOCIAL MEDIA.  Social media would in turn be the most addictive and overzealous happening of our generation.  Social media would be the one source that we as people would become consumed.  Social media, whether we are updating our status, showing off a new picture, blogging our opinions, or sharing videos about our lives, has become an accessory to who we are.

Like every addiction, there is a point where we should learn how to live without it, or it will become us.  Social media should be a piece of technology with which we have access, just maybe not so much.  On one hand, it allows us to share memories with people we may never get to see again, it allows us to be a part of the lives of the people we love most, even when we can’t share the same space.  But on the other hand, it takes from us, the most precious thing we have.  Time is what we are given.  It may be a small amount or a hundred years.  That we aren’t sure of.  As I type these words, I am living in this moment with time on my side.  Because I know this, I have not much more to say.  I will leave you with this; Playing with my daughter for 30 minutes and watching her become a brilliant person, or continuing to write, connected to this world wide web……  Goodbye EVERYONE!