I received my first cell phone as a Christmas gift back in 2000. By the late 90s, Germany was the first country in the world to have a full-coverage cellphone network, and up until then I had resisted getting a phone ... Even though I had made it public to all and quite clear to my friends that I really didnt want one, the womans team I was coaching at the time got me a cell phone anyway, and I too became connected. What I quickly realized, however, was that the more connected I became to the virtual world, the more disconnected I became to my life & its living. My relationships became dulled, my hobbies began gathering dust, and my Nature-Soak walks in the woods steadily disappeared. Upon realizing this one morning, I got up, took my phone to a subway underpass, and threw it repeatedly against the wall until it exploded ... I have been free and living freely ever since. To this day, that remains one of the best decisions I have ever made. Its not that you cant get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can ... However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks that accrue directly because of having a cell phone. ~ Jeff Davidson Think about a catastrophic disaster where the cell phone towers went dead. How would you ever be able to text your next door neighbor to see if they were okay? ~ Stanley Paskavich
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 03:46:26 +0000
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