I was late to the smart phone party...we just joined around last Thanksgiving. Mostly because we were waiting until we felt like we could afford it. So, I did about a year's worth of research. Jerod said we could get smart phones if we paid the EXACT SAME monthly bill as we were paying for text + calling phones. Challenge accepted.
I did it, of course. Found those cheap and free phones with monthly plans that fit the bill. :)
And now I realize everywhere we are, we are all (Americans) checking our phones. People have been writing about this ad nauseum for years, I know.
But such the addiction! I will let myself get carsick while riding just to scroll through vapid status updates and cute baby pictures. I high-five myself inwardly when I come up with a clever retort or joke. I plan what my posts will be while doing actual things like riding a bike or grocery shopping. I live with one foot in life and one foot in media-life. I fear what this is doing to my sense of reality and my sense of stillness.
I wonder what it is doing to my HEARING. My capital letter Hearing. I wonder what it is showing my child, that all the margins of our day should be filled with INPUT and "knowledge." (yes, I did mean to put quotation marks up there) I wonder if all of this information is causing me to grind my teeth and hunch my shoulders...literally. Why am I unable to sit and think any more?
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| Wall-E in the "new human" world. Where everyone rides around in chairs and stares at screens. YIKES. |
Be still and know that I am God. It just keeps coming back to me over and over again. We can't know UNTIL we're still. And being still seems also to demand some silence. And some listening. I'm learning to listen.
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