'Are we for real?'
...or are we as real as Asterix, Spiderman or a pink haired Anime character?
We communicate often but, we have stopped talking.
Phones are priority. Yet, should we really call phones by such a name or ...maybe by something more suitable to the way we 'NOW' use them.
I'd say texotones. Lol!
But jokes apart, this is so dammmn true isn't it? We text to ask shall we call. We text if we can avoid a call. We invite, wish, congratulate and even cry on text.
We have substituted sound for silence and yet, we claim we feel lonely and have no one to share our lives with.
How can we find human company when are our most trusted companions are now small sleek instruments that fit in our back pockets or rest as close to our hearts as possible. We spend all our time connecting via a net we can't see or touch, we devote hours to tiny icons we'd need magnifying glasses to really look at and we watch intently...not the sparkle in the eye, nor the glint of a smile or listen to real love in someone's voice...but, instead those famous...little dots that dance on our screens, as people we say we care about and love so much - text us.
What is the use when people hardly call eachother, hear a voice or listen to the sound of laughter.
Today! Its a silent world.
We are cutting out contact And People are all turning into introverts. We are teaching are children to be isolated. We don't hear the emotion of a tone as a voice sways on certain words. Fail to hear hidden words in a sentence spoken, fail to actually see with our eyes.
We are in a matrix - with make-believe sounds that only we hear but do not share with the other person. Talking in words we type. Stopped using our eyes to see people, nor our ears to hear their voices instead... photos or pics suffice, meet-ups, get-to-gethers, hanging out is less or almost never...we shy away on the claim that we are busy, otherwise occupied and avoid real contact. Touching other humans seemed awkward.
No friendly tap on the shoulder. No punch on the arm, over a joke. No hugs. No kisses. No love shared in a real world, just emojis or stickers that substitute by acting out the movement in animation.
Life is just a 2D game where no one really sees the players. Images are perfected and, freckles erased where once there was. Lips made fuller, hair longer and smiles wider and yet, these smiles don't touch the eyes, make the heart sing or miss a beat.
Life is just a huge lonely game where no one knows the rules yet everyones trying to play harder. Taking too many breaks is a bad thing. Spending real time unnessary and experiencing seeing reactions on a face an inconvenience to be avoided. Pics. Replace real people, emojis are the new expressions, And a kiss is a Gif on a glaring screen of cartoon characters smooching.
A glimse of reality depends on good cams on better phones or textotones (as I think I will call them). Even making love can often depend on just how good your wifi is
...or satisfaction achieved if you have a connection through the best internet partner in town...No! not the man or woman in your life - Oh! No. Human contact has lost its value. 'Touch me now' is just a phrase and 'I love you' are mainly stickers.
The question we need to ask ourselves as each day rushes by is -
• Are we doing this all for us?
• Is this for our kids?
• Will are children really benifit from are mad dash to make more money, get more fame at the sacrifice of 'real' human contact?
• Is this the example we are striving so hard to set, for the next generations to come.
Isolation. Isolation? Isolation!
Yes! Believe it or not we are isolating ourselves. Unhappily behind bright screens creating weaker, more anxiety prone lonely people...pretending its all for the good of a new human race.
I wonder though...how much further will we strive to live alone.
Isolated in places we call home.
I am Lisa Wydeman and if you are on my fb...feel free to call me anytime. Afterall I must try to start to change the world with... me.
