Can You Hear Me Now?

I just watched a photo montage about the way we (Society)  communicate and spend time with each other in 2014. Through the reflection in my laptop screen I saw the words "GUILTY" and "LOSER"!

The video showed real life photo clips of people, groups, couples, parents with children. Instead of walking through the most beautiful gardens and admiring the flowers..she has her face planted on her phone.....there is a lovely baby in a stroller at the park - so cute - but his Dad is sitting on a bench with his nose in his phone messages, missing the opportunity to bond. That girl's night or date night you've been planning for weeks? Well, you look up to see your friends or partner looking at their phone... not engaging in conversation. It's time for lunch...oops...let me grab my cell phone and put it on the table just in case I get a text or call that is way more important than breathing in your space. Hang on...I'll be right there to lend a hand that you desperately need....as soon as I finish gathering corn in my make-believe app I downloaded from the PlayStore. Instead of holding hands...we hold our phones. Instead of talking to each other face-to-face, we put up the wall of a phone between us ~ throw up the index finger and say "Hang on a sec...I need to answer this".

Yes, I am SO Guilty...of all of it (even though I don't play app games). Slowly the need, the urgent need to be connected, stay connected takes over the quality time that humans need...that we desire...that makes us happy and feel desired. I wasted my time with my family and friends - and I have so little let in the World - by reaching for/looking at/searching for/making sure it's charged/ my phone. G-U-I-L-T-Y!

I am vowing to change this... in me. I will put down my phone more and pick up a pen to write a nice note. I want to call more and text less. I want to blog my thoughts instead of Facebook them. Want to stay connected with me? Then stay connected. I'm not naive to think that I will take an electronic break...but I will begin to value my relationships more in real-life/real-time. I won't continue to be a slave to technology and be bound through lunch or dinner by a phone. I want to hold your hand...both of them...at the same time and stare in your eyes when we talk ~ I want you to want the same things.

I don't want the reality of my relationships to be in a photo montage on Youtube.

Let's hang up the phone and hang on to each other!

Peace