I saw a bunch of kids this morning waiting at a bus stop and everysingle one of them was staring at some handheld device. None were actually communicating with each other.
Freak Show Revival
Everywhere I look
See blank eyes
On plastic devices
In a death grip
Before the face
Vision that should be
Somewhere
On the road ahead
On other worlds underfoot
And stars above
On the person
Sitting across the table
Everybody is wishing
They were someplace else
Hearing another voice
Living any kind of life
Other than the one in which
They find themselves
Wanting to disappear
Into hand held dimensions
Used to joke
About those unable
To see beyond
The end of their nose
Never realizing
How horribly unfunny
It might appear
With these shiny tumors
Sprouting from fingertips
And cheekbones
Ushering in
A whole new age
Of separation
Yep My kids communicate with their mates on Facebook. Last week my youngest sent me an email instead of phoning. :(
Sounds like some of you need a new friend. That must mean it is once again time for a PARTY IN EYED'S BASEMENT! WOO-HOO!!!!
woo hoo! Sign me up
Lately I'm getting too much human interaction. I feel way too over-stimulated. I keep fantasizing about being alone in a hotel room...white walls...white sheets...just me and a book. Then I realized that sounds an awful lot like an insane asylum
You can tell the difference, though _ the hotel room will have nice towels, and the asylum room will lack electrical outlets and will not have a dropped ceiling.
Sounds like some of you need a new friend. That must mean it is once again time for a PARTY IN EYED'S BASEMENT! WOO-HOO!!!!
woo hoo! Sign me up
Lately I'm getting too much human interaction. I feel way too over-stimulated. I keep fantasizing about being alone in a hotel room...white walls...white sheets...just me and a book. Then I realized that sounds an awful lot like an insane asylum
You can tell the difference, though _ the hotel room will have nice towels, and the asylum room will lack electrical outlets and will not have a dropped ceiling.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Sounds like some of you need a new friend. That must mean it is once again time for a PARTY IN EYED'S BASEMENT! WOO-HOO!!!!
woo hoo! Sign me up
Lately I'm getting too much human interaction. I feel way too over-stimulated. I keep fantasizing about being alone in a hotel room...white walls...white sheets...just me and a book. Then I realized that sounds an awful lot like an insane asylum
You can tell the difference, though _ the hotel room will have nice towels, and the asylum room will lack electrical outlets and will not have a dropped ceiling.
and I'm hoping for a nice jacuzzi tub and NO straight jacket!
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I've told my kids, count yourself lucky to have one true friend to depend on through life. One who values, appreciates and cherishes your friendship. What more do we need?
Then be friendly, people will come and go, these passing relationships important as all things happen for a reason.
Our everyday interaction with "strangers" is also very important, it's easily dismissed.
We can make someone's day better with a smile or a kind word or gesture.
These everyday interactions make a life blessed, the human bond happens in a fraction of a second and they all count!
I completely agree about interactions with strangers. It's why I've always chosen to live in the city. I think I'd be suffocating right now if I lived in a place where I just got in my individual car and went directly to my individual office and then directly to my individual apartment every day.
I don't mean to say that I "blame the internet" or anything like that-- I'm not an old curmudgeon. I think the communication that the internet allows us is a good thing. I think it just catches up with me every once in a while when I realize I don't have that immediate group of friends around me. I've always enjoyed living alone and eating alone and solitary activities like that, but I'm sort of missing the days of having all your friends together in the dorm or the weekly dinner at someone's house. Maybe I need a roommate...or not...I'm not sure if I'm willing to go that far .
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You can tell the difference, though _ the hotel room will have nice towels, and the asylum room will lack electrical outlets and will not have a dropped ceiling.
- Christopher McCandless
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
Oh, you wanted a bed too....pickypickypicky!
- Christopher McCandless
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
I completely agree about interactions with strangers. It's why I've always chosen to live in the city. I think I'd be suffocating right now if I lived in a place where I just got in my individual car and went directly to my individual office and then directly to my individual apartment every day.
I don't mean to say that I "blame the internet" or anything like that-- I'm not an old curmudgeon. I think the communication that the internet allows us is a good thing. I think it just catches up with me every once in a while when I realize I don't have that immediate group of friends around me. I've always enjoyed living alone and eating alone and solitary activities like that, but I'm sort of missing the days of having all your friends together in the dorm or the weekly dinner at someone's house. Maybe I need a roommate...or not...I'm not sure if I'm willing to go that far