You see, my network's down, so I can't tweet or text, and am forced to confront myself. Which I don't mind that much, because maybe I should take time away from the hubbub of social comforts. Because basically that's what our social media is to us these days, a comfort - makes us feel less alone, like maybe we're not the only ones feeling the pain that we do. Or the happiness we do.
Economists say that Social Media is a bubble that will eventually pop and won't be so life consuming, but I find myself disagreeing. I feel like we will always want/appreciate the comforts of our virtual friends and followers, because late at night when your real ones aren't around, you still have people who are there. And as humans we'll always crave it. It kind of makes me wonder what Economists then think the next bubble will be.
My brother has this theory that our phones are in fact, not just a piece of technology, but become a piece, a very personal piece, of who we are. And I think I agree with him. I mean when last did you go a day without your phone, WAIT don't answer that because it's crap question that doesn't substantiate the point I'm trying to make.
Wait - something just got into my eye.
Okay, I'm back, the eyes red as blood. And it's pretty crazy how my immediate reaction was to squirt as much eye-gene into it as I could and then put my spectacles on, which I'm now wearing in the dark. How absolutely pointless.
About your phone, it's an extension of your arm - your connection to anyone and everyone around the world. You can get information, check your back account, check your email and message your friend in Australia at the same time. Yes, the world has shrunken, but it's sort of beautiful how close it has brought us all.
My phone holds so much of me and what I do, and I know that some people will be like "You shouldn't speak that way about material things" but really? Are you serious? Be real with yourself, you're probably thinking that as you stare at your phone screen and read this very post. I haven't ever written a post via my pc, I do everything on my phone and to me that's pretty amazing.
I feel really disconnected without mine, and at one stage when I didn't have a phone it was sort of liberating, but pretty crap. I mean, I like being able to lie in my bed and speak to whomever I need to, I can have a conversation with someone about something I had thought of in the very moment that I did, and it doesn't matter where they are.
Also, just think about how uncomfortable you get when someone's looking through your phone, even if you have nothing to hide. It's like their sifting through the very pages and contents of your soul, because everything you look at, write to people and speak about is on your phone. It is such a personal piece of metal.
I actually use to go around, copying the music off different people's phones so that I could have an in depth look into who they were, because the lyrics you listen to, and the beats you like, basically gives me a feel of your soul. Because when you're listening to music, you're allowing it to run like a stream around your soul, and mold it as the stream would a rock.
I think that as long as we don't make things gods in our life then we're a for a way. Appreciate the things that simplify your life and allow you to express yourself, the small things, like your phone; your connection to the entire world.
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