"Do you use the “off” button?"
It seems that everywhere I go people are talking—either through actual conversations or texting—someone who’s not there. I go to our daughter’s track meet and every kid there is texting a friend who’s not there. I drive down the road and every other driver has a phone up to her ear, yakking away while driving. I eat out in a restaurant and at most tables or booths there’s someone answering email or messaging on a Blackberry.
I wonder what life would be like if for a day you and I and all of our friends and family members and work associates used the "off" button. Just cut off our mobile devices and actually had a real-life, in-person conversation with the folks at the track meet or the other person in the car or a lunch companion. Or, what if we walked around the track or drove the car or ate lunch in silence, just listening to life around us. What would life be like if you and I did that for a day?
Try it for a day. Then email me at DrJoey@listentolife.org to participate in National Turn-It-Off Day and let’s listen to life and make a life, not just a living.
posted by Listen To Life @ 6:49 PM
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It seems some people would rather answer cell phones and reply to text messages than to talk to the person they are with. That is so rude. SOmetimes I feel like leaving my friends and calling them back to finish our conversation. Sometimes the best company is with the person sitting beside you in the car or sitting across from you at the dinner table.
You are so right,but the most
pitiful thing is, we can wish all
day,but everything changes and the
world changes and our progress eradicates life around us as we have known it. Being older means either living in the past or accepting the ways of the future,ie,
cell phones,answering machines,HD TV. For young people, toys like bikes and dolls have been replaced by computers.No more playing kick the can , or hide and go seek. Letter writing is now texting. We are learning to communicate not by voice but by electronics. So we are probably evolving into a society that sooner or later will sit across from each other and not talk verbally, but communicate with electronics...and society will accept this as normal as this will be all they know, much like cell phones are accepted as norm because kids today never had a land line phone. Only special people with love in their hearts, and people who care about others in a sincere way will be the ones who use the off button...and most people will never notice.
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