phones
I look around, I look around - Tyler Durden
I’m traveling and everywhere I look, people are on their phones. Including myself, writing this thing right here.
Sometimes I try to see what people are doing. It’s usually playing games, reading a book, looking at social media, or texting.
But every now and then I see someone swiping through their phone. Just moving from app page to app page, swiping up to kill apps, but not doing really anything in particular aside from what seems to be admiring their list of apps and administrating the memory on their phone.
In general, no one can seem to put them down. The phones.
It sometimes makes me worry. Worry about our dependence on these devices and how if they went away, what then? I worry most about the people I see staring at their phone, swiping through app pages, seemingly engaged. Is it they feel they need to do that because everyone else is on their phone? What could it be? Are they just waiting for the next notification? Something to remove them from actually being in the moment and where they are, right now?
I don’t know.
But I’m going to have a beer and just sit with myself for this short flight. And perhaps take a nap.