Today was really something. It seemed to have gone by way to fast. I was able to write a poem and bake a French honey cake for my honeybee, teach and then sit in during a ballet dress rehearsal to give critiques before their performance.
I was so surprised at how little imagination a lot of our teen youth has. When I would give basic images to help them convey the simplest of emotions, they would become wide-eyed, drop-jawed and acted as though I had unlocked the secret of life.
I notice it in a lot of students and young people that I come across, and in some adults as well. Is it that in the age of facebook, craigslist and the smartphone we have become emotionally and romantically vacant? Ever notice how compared to your early youth, you speak less words? Conversations that can become deep and last for hours somehow turn into interrupted broken sentences as your partner goes back and forth between their text messages, facebook surfing and who knows what else.
This even occurs in relationships, which causes besides annoyance and anger, insecurity. Am I wrong? Or is it that I am just an odd person, who would rather look into your eyes and not have the interruption of a beep, and if this beep does decide to sing, would you at least ignore it until I finished my thought?
So yes, I feel the things that have been given to us by technology to make things easier basically set us back a few years or decades in the way of basic human imagination, courtesy and interpersonal interactions.
Why stare at a screen for so long? You can be missing a treasure that is right in front of your eyes, that will give to a lot more than a quick laugh and an instinctual click of the "like" button.
...Frustrated.
-La Callas
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