Interaction
I believe I was born about 50 years too late. Or maybe that's just the nostalgia talking. I did enjoy my school afternoons in the 80s, but now I feel a little starved for some real human contact and interaction. With the world of technology at our fingertips, too often people never look up. We've lost the ability to interact with people. We've lost the art of conversation. Few can discuss topics beyond what they watched on television the night before. And even as we watch those television shows we're multitasking on our phones.
I go to karaoke on Monday nights and a friend of mine had voiced interest in going but would always cancel last minute. Well, he finally dragged himself out of the house and made it to the bar. No interest to talk to my friends who were present. Instead, he was a flurry of text messages and when he did talk to me it was only about himself. And he posted on Facebook how he is bored with gay establishments and is no longer sociable. Well, you might be sociable if you would put the damn phone down.
I think I want to try and start a tradition. Hosting a big family style dinner at my place. I'm going to start doing it once a month. However, the entire event will be a technology free event. I will abscond with your phones and force you to have conversations with people. No television. We'll bust out the board games for entertainment. It'd be great to find a group of friends who can hang out without technology, though I know I will be fighting an uphill battle.
I go to karaoke on Monday nights and a friend of mine had voiced interest in going but would always cancel last minute. Well, he finally dragged himself out of the house and made it to the bar. No interest to talk to my friends who were present. Instead, he was a flurry of text messages and when he did talk to me it was only about himself. And he posted on Facebook how he is bored with gay establishments and is no longer sociable. Well, you might be sociable if you would put the damn phone down.
I think I want to try and start a tradition. Hosting a big family style dinner at my place. I'm going to start doing it once a month. However, the entire event will be a technology free event. I will abscond with your phones and force you to have conversations with people. No television. We'll bust out the board games for entertainment. It'd be great to find a group of friends who can hang out without technology, though I know I will be fighting an uphill battle.