Let's start off with a question:
When did the "thing to do" become the "five things to do at once"?
In our society we are constantly doing more than one things at once. You name it: texting and driving, eating while watching TV, skyping while texting, walking and talking, working out and listening to music... the list is never ending. Why does we feel so inclined to have to do so many things at once? Are there not enough hours in the day to complete the necessary tasks? I personally think it comes down to one thing: we got bored.
We became bored doing the same thing all the. We needed to mix it up and try something new. It's the same reason technology is always changing, we need something new to play with and to wrap our minds around. We are infatuated with new things, whether that be new games to play, new phones to figure out, new TV shows to watch. Our lives revolve around the update of technology and we're so blinded by it all that we don't even see it. More often than not, we go out to dinner with other individuals, and spend more time on our phones than we do talking to the person sitting next to us. I can't say Im not guilty of it. But i just wish that for one day, we went back to the way things used to be, a simpler time. A day when a family dinner meant, no talk of religion or politics and all phones, computers, and non-existant iPads were left in the other room. I dont want it to go back that way forever, lets face it, our world would crumble. I just think that all of could use a dose of reality and cause us to pump the breaks on this busy life were so engaged in.
Below is short clip from John King on CNN concerning a hour and half without technology
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