Hellphones

What did we ever do before we had cell phones. When I was growing up in the nineties it seemed like we got more in more impatient with the amount of time we had to wait to communicate with one another. When I was really little we didn't have any type of communication device that we could carry around and stay in contact with each other. Sure doctor's had pagers and the occasional wealthier person had a car phone that would only work in select areas. For the most part we could only communicate through our land line house phones. We didn't have to call people every hour of the day to let them know frivolous details of our everyday lives; We kept that stuff to ourselves. Now most of us all have smartphones. We can text, email, page, send pictures, play games, or even (god forbid) call people at any given time. Before cell phones we weren't checking in with one another constantly to see what was going on. I know my mom and dad told me about when they were dating they might talk to each other once a day for about an hour. That was when they were trying to get to know one another too! Now if I go more than five minutes without texting my fiance' to let her know I am still breathing oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide she would probably call the police to start a manhunt. We have gotten too out of control and too reliant on being able to talk to each other at any time we want. Constant communication is good in some cases but carrying a smartphone on our person 24/7 is alienating our very own privacy and disabling us to see the world around us clearly. We are too wrapped up in what each other is thinking to form any of our own original thoughts.