ADVENT OF THE MOBILE PHONE

You know, I was thinking about this not so long ago when it was time to switch the light off after I’d spent a lot of the evening with my head bent down staring into a small screen – my mobile phone. My cat was staring at me – and probably had been for the last half hour or more, and that’s when it dawned on me - how long I’d been sitting like this in silence on my phone. She was looking at me as if to say “I’m waiting for you to pay me attention, stroke me, throw that toy for me to catch, don’t you love me anymore?” 

The advent of mobile phones has caused society to pay even less attention to those who need our attention the most:

The elderly – our dear old people who went through so much to raise us, just to be ignored because of modern technology, and may only have you for company once you get home from work. They too are sitting there in silence just waiting for you to pay them that little bit of attention they deserve and long for. And even worse for them is if they are deaf – deafness brings isolation on its own!

The young ones – they too want and need your attention in the few remaining hours of the day, they’ve missed you and long for your full attention to show and teach them things that the person they spent the better part of the day with, can’t teach them. 

Pets – Your dear pets who can’t talk, don’t understand why you aren’t going outside to play ball or throw a stick or stroke your cat, you come home and sit in silence for sometimes hours – not realising how time passes by.

Have you worked out how many hours you spend on your phone daily? Work it out, for your own interest. This is how, so subtly, those small little instruments are just another means of destroying the family unit. Ironically, the very instrument that brings us so much activity, entertainment and a feeling of inclusivity socially, could ultimately bring us the most isolation by making us anti-social, especially to our REAL friends right under our noses at home!

Just saying…