community life
Hae you ever noticed that with the dawn of the cell phone, talking to new people is an almost extinct skill?
As one who does not have a cell phone, i must raise a complaint!
I was on a shuttle the other evening and there were 9 of us on the bus. 6 had cell phones that they were in "deep""important" conversations with... (who knows if there was someone on the other end or not!) and 2 were "jammin" to their snazzy business card size ipods. I sat in the back and watched.
I'm reading a book called "the safest place on earth" by Larry Crabb; in which he describes a situation where he saw a group of retirees in Florida sitting on straight back chairs staring out on the beach. They were all there, in their older years, staring straight ahead and not talking to a soul around them. It was the opposite of community... it was confomity.
I couldn't help thinking that my ride on the bus was a high tech version of that for the "young".
As one who does not have a cell phone, i must raise a complaint!
I was on a shuttle the other evening and there were 9 of us on the bus. 6 had cell phones that they were in "deep""important" conversations with... (who knows if there was someone on the other end or not!) and 2 were "jammin" to their snazzy business card size ipods. I sat in the back and watched.
I'm reading a book called "the safest place on earth" by Larry Crabb; in which he describes a situation where he saw a group of retirees in Florida sitting on straight back chairs staring out on the beach. They were all there, in their older years, staring straight ahead and not talking to a soul around them. It was the opposite of community... it was confomity.
I couldn't help thinking that my ride on the bus was a high tech version of that for the "young".
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