I've been thinking a lot lately about how we as a people communicate nowadays--or rather, how we don't. Text messages have replaced invitations and traditional flirting, emails have replaced letters, phone calls have replaced going to dinner and chatting with friends, and TiVo has replaced dinner with family. Seems like we have regressed, not progressed. Life is hectic enough...our attention spans are getting shorter by the day...so why not use the attention we have on the people we love, instead of giving someone we're with half of our attention while we blithely text away to someone else? Why not grant the clerk at the store the same courtesy we would extend to, say, our boss, by giving him (or her) our full attention while we're checking out? In the last ten years we have completely changed how we communicate...which, in my book, is not necessarily a good thing. Now we don't think--we text. We don't ponder the consequences of our actions--we call our friends to discuss minute details instead of thinking things through ourselves.
How will the world be when I actually get around to having kids? How will I teach them how to communicate properly in a world where true communication is rapidly becoming extinct?
I'll go ponder that now...instead of calling my sister to see what she thinks.