Does anyone else remember the joy of a good phone call. The type of phone call you wait all day for. The one that you don't want to end. The phone call you expect to be short, yet, when you look at the call time afterward and realize you were talking for almost 2 or 3 hours? I miss these calls. I miss the connection felt because you and the other person enjoyed each other's time so much, that you both invested a few hours of your life with one another. Then, you couldn't wait until the next call which would be 10 minutes of important items with about 2 hours of random, bullshit enjoyment and inside jokes.
I hate to think that these days are a thing of the past because it seems they happened on the reg just the other day. Now when I think about it though, it has been about 5 to 7 years now since these conversations were anything close to regular. Are we now incapable of these moments? Has our attention spans been technically institutionalized because of the rise in the typed word? I fear this is true but I hope that I am wrong. I miss the days of falling asleep on the phone with someone you care about. What hurts me the most though is the fact that there is a generation of growing youths now that will never know what it was like. They will never know the emotional feeling of actual verbal communication over the telephone with a friend or lover on the reg. Instead, all they know are texts and snaps.. There is nothing to tell by the end of they day because you have slowly talked about it the entire day. We can no longer enjoy our surroundings because of how fascinated we are with our phone screen.
I can remember calling old girlfriends and their parent's picking up the phone. The nervousness of asking to talk to her and thinking what they might say back to you. Kids today will never experience that. When is the last time you had a phone call over an hour? How many times does your mom, dad. sister or brother or anyone call you and you purposely do not answer it? That is something that we have lost. It is so different to be the youth of 2016 compared to the youth of say 2005. It is different for adults too.
I went to the bar after work last Friday and I noticed something that made me realize our generation has failed. I sat down and ordered my drink. The bartender brought it over, I paid for it and I started sipping it. It was a crown and coke by the way, delicious. I was waiting for my dad to arrive so I was just relaxing by myself. As I sat there and sipped my crown, I started to look around me. There were 10 other people sitting at the bar. I kid you not, every single person had their phone out. Even a couple sitting at the bar together, they both had their phone out. It is sad to think we can't even go to a bar now and have a nice, real conversation or connection with someone.
Things will only keep changing, who knows how our communication will be in another 10 years. Pick up the phone and call someone you love, let's make hearing each other's voice appreciated again! Thanks for reading. I am sending lots of love and positive energy your way!