I don’t have a car. That means when I go out and about, if it’s further than walking distance, I get on a bus.
Sitting on the bus a few days ago, I couldn’t help but notice how everyone was sitting, heads down, looking into their phones. Some were watching videos, some I could see were messaging (or at least inputting something). Everyone though was somewhere else. They were on the bus journey physically, but mentally they could well have been the other side of the world.
I think cellphones are a great tool. I use mine for so many things. However, I do think that we all suffer from overload if we’re not careful. Isn’t it time that we sometimes, at least, came back into the present time? Is it good to spend the bulk of our lives with our mind in other places? I even see it when people are out together. They’re not sitting having a conversation, but on their phones somewhere else in the world.
I stopped looking at all my fellow passengers who were elsewhere and went back to the present, and looked out of the window as we travelled along the street.