Are We Really That Technologically Dependent?

Well, apparently, today was one of those un-inspiring days. I mean, sure, it's Mother's Day. Yay Moms! But, sorry guys, you aren't the most amazing to write about. I couldn't even get a poem down. So, by the end of the THIRD walk I took today, I sat on my front porch. I watched the grass sway back and forth, the birds talk and play sweetly. I watched each car roll by, slowly along the painfully straight stretch of road. Still, nothing came to me.

My dad, being the anti-technologist that he is, decided to come rag on me about listening to my iPod and texting at the same time. According to him, 'I'm too technologically dependent' and 'I don't have any friends in real life. Just phone numbers'. I usually don't listen to my dad, ask anyone who knows me. But for some reason, this one stuck. It made me think...are we too technologically dependent?

I text a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean around sixteen thousand. At least, that was last month's number. I can barely make it through a class period without texting, even my favorite classes. The only class I don't text in is Health. One, because McGough is completely evil, and two, because I don't get any reception. I'm pretty sure if there was reception, I'd get over my fear of her, and text away.

Not to mention my almost compulsive attachment to my iPod, whose name is Adam. He's gorgeous, a white thirty gig video. I'm absolutely in love with him, hence the "almost compulsive" attachment. Eighteen out of the twenty hours i'm conscious, I'm listening to music. More than likely, music you haven't heard of, like The High Court and Bedlight for Blue Eyes. It's just the way I work. [currently, though, I'm having an old Mayday Parade phase. "One Man Drinking Games" is just...wow]

If any of us really watch the news anymore, because I don't, we would see various stories of car crashes and now bus and train accidents due to texting and iPod fidgeting. I mean, I can understand iPod fidgeting while driving. Some songs just aren't driving songs, I get that. Texting, though? Why do we need to text and drive? I'm almost certain whoever could possibly be texting would much rather have you alive to text them the next day than dead to reply that second.

I may text and be plugged into Adam constantly, but Mix CDs and Silence settings are there for a reason. Don't be stupid.