It's weird how time has progressed and what is deemed as normal now versus what used to be normal. I'll be right outside, in my garage, having a smoke and drinking a beer on a stool right after a workout and my neighbors will come over thinking something's wrong. I remember years ago, it was normal to be outside, to be outside from sunrise to sunset and even way into the night. Now, it seems like if you're outside, you've got a problem. You've got alot on your mind or something of the sorts.
I guess, especially lately, I've been having a hard time grasping the concept that we should be all cooped up inside, feet kicked up with the remote in hand watching one of the thousands upon thousands of channels. HD, Tv-on Demand, and TIVO, it's all kind of sickening. And the sad part is, I'm part of it.
When I'm not at work, absolutely killing myself for a paycheck that's supposed allow me to live comfortably (even though, I'm barely scraping by), I spend most of my time, lounging around like the rest of us, taking in copious amounts of Netflix and television shows. And the fucked up part is that I justify it. I fucking justify laying around all night watching this bullshit because I think if I actually go do something, I'm not going to have the energy to do my work the following day.
But, every now and then, I realize what I'm doing and I kick my ass into gear. I force myself out of this horrible habit of being almost hermit-like. And especially lately, I've come to realize that I want more out of this life then what I've been putting into it. I don't understand why we can't make it normal to just be outside again. To put down all of the technology, to turn off our mobile phones, disconnect our televisions and just live our lives the way things used to be. For a week, even just for a week it would be amazing to see the consequences of doing this. But, people would never go for it. It's sad, really, that a mobile phone can be someones entire life, more or less.
For fucks sake, we can't even go to a god damn restaurant without almost burning our thumbs off from all of the texting and mobile phone games, instead of actually talking to our dates or families that we went out to eat with in the first place.
About two months ago, I witnessed, at a small local restaurant that I love to frequent, this family was waiting to be seated. The two children with their parents were just fidgeting around on their mobile phones while their parents were trying to talk to them. It's like they couldn't even hear them, that they were so engrossed in a text conversation that they couldn't even be bothered to listen to their parents, who were taking the time out of their lives to not only go take their kids to this nice establishment but to also PAY for their kids meals.
Maybe it's just me, but I believe something has to be done. The amount of disrespect that technology has taught the children of today, it's amazing. It's wrong. It's sad. It really does make me sad.
I guess, especially lately, I've been having a hard time grasping the concept that we should be all cooped up inside, feet kicked up with the remote in hand watching one of the thousands upon thousands of channels. HD, Tv-on Demand, and TIVO, it's all kind of sickening. And the sad part is, I'm part of it.
When I'm not at work, absolutely killing myself for a paycheck that's supposed allow me to live comfortably (even though, I'm barely scraping by), I spend most of my time, lounging around like the rest of us, taking in copious amounts of Netflix and television shows. And the fucked up part is that I justify it. I fucking justify laying around all night watching this bullshit because I think if I actually go do something, I'm not going to have the energy to do my work the following day.
But, every now and then, I realize what I'm doing and I kick my ass into gear. I force myself out of this horrible habit of being almost hermit-like. And especially lately, I've come to realize that I want more out of this life then what I've been putting into it. I don't understand why we can't make it normal to just be outside again. To put down all of the technology, to turn off our mobile phones, disconnect our televisions and just live our lives the way things used to be. For a week, even just for a week it would be amazing to see the consequences of doing this. But, people would never go for it. It's sad, really, that a mobile phone can be someones entire life, more or less.
For fucks sake, we can't even go to a god damn restaurant without almost burning our thumbs off from all of the texting and mobile phone games, instead of actually talking to our dates or families that we went out to eat with in the first place.
About two months ago, I witnessed, at a small local restaurant that I love to frequent, this family was waiting to be seated. The two children with their parents were just fidgeting around on their mobile phones while their parents were trying to talk to them. It's like they couldn't even hear them, that they were so engrossed in a text conversation that they couldn't even be bothered to listen to their parents, who were taking the time out of their lives to not only go take their kids to this nice establishment but to also PAY for their kids meals.
Maybe it's just me, but I believe something has to be done. The amount of disrespect that technology has taught the children of today, it's amazing. It's wrong. It's sad. It really does make me sad.