I wonder when we die, if we'll leave something important to the future generations. Will we go the way of Neanderthal Man or will we have something more to offer? Anyway my older daughter and I were going to the store Sunday evening. That's when we saw a lady walking two dogs and talking on he cellphone. Lord have mercy, this town can't even enjoy its free time with the pooch without having our cellphones cut in.
I can understand, in today's world, you have to be available, in fact I'm on call 24/7...so I really know about it. But I've seen people pulling out their driveway and already they're on the phone... I'm sure my neighborhood isn't the only one. It's bad enough people talk while driving but I could list the litany of places people use their phones and everybody hates them... but still we have them anyway.
Why is this? I wish I knew. Anyway back to the cave man reference how do we in a wold of hundreds of millions, even billions leave something behind? Will a blog become one's personal cave wall to draw pictures on... or is it yet more garbage to just throw out? I'm not really sure, but I would like to leave something behind, but I know my cellphone will not be it. Just something to think about.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Cave Man
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4 comments:
I am one of the few that actually turns my phone off! My SO on the other hand is very near to having his permanently attached to his ear! LOL
That's funny, I think I simply don't have anything good to say. Remember 10-20 year ago, you actually had to be home to take a call? Those were the days. LOL
MH:
Hell, I remember rotary dialing, partylines, AND 5 cent WOODEN phone booths.
As to cave wall drawings...I think too many people today are more interested in the voyeuristic pursuits of "watching the shadows" on the wall, than in drawing (or legacies).
(yep, that's philosophical, alright)
Besides, hardly anything made TODAY lasts more than a DECADE (before it craps out).
;)
B.G.
I have been involved in so many things in the past 30 years that I haven't turned my phones off... I was one of the first people they'd call when they were in trouble, went to jail, etc - even before their lawyer or bondsman! It will be a relief to turn off those phones. I have lived my life far too long in the service of others.
As for my legacy, I don't think anything in my life has been important enough to be noteworthy in a hundred years. Too many folk don't think in that perspective - "What will folks think in 100 years, and will it matter?" Those same folk are more interested in gleefully destroying anything and anyone they put their hands on. I have the legacy of my wonderfully rotten and productive children, the legacy of the battles I've won that are a matter of State public record - the people whose lives I've touched and influenced for their future are what matters to me. If I have helped one life to be better, and to make steps toward a better future for the lives that they touch, that is all the legacy I need. All We Are is Dust in the Wind, and what seems tragic and important and devastating today will be forgotten tomorrow; If not by us, than by those around us. It's the Wal-Mart mentality - gotta have it NOW, and if it is cheaply made or easily broken, get another, and another, solely to satisfy an immediate need. This too will pass. As will we all.
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