Recently I’ve noticed some of these things I see around me, and I cringed, realizing that I do this quite a bit as well:
- Parents playing with their kids on the playground while talking on the cell phone
- A group of friends eating together, yet all looking at their phones and texting/Twittering, etc
- Sitting with our spouses on the couch, yet constantly looking at our phones
- Talking on our phones after we pick up our kids from school
- Not moving away from our devices to focus on someone who has come to talk to us
- Talking on the phone while ordering food, or buying groceries at the checkout
- Worshipping in church, yet more concerned about what’s going on at other churches via Twitter
- Checking email, FB and Twitter messages last thing at night, or first thing in the morning
- Not having definite boundaryed times of no device use in our homes
- Glancing at our phones while on a date with our spouses, or significant others
- Constantly updating/texting during a game or concert
- And on, and on, and on, and on……
This weekend when I was leaving my grandmother’s funeral, an elderly gentleman pulled me aside to not only say something about my grandmother, but more specifically about my grandfather. He said, “Your grandfather had the ability to make the person he was talking to feel like the most important person in the world.” I want people to feel that way after talking to me. To feel that I was fully present with them, and that they were the most important person in the world to me….not the person on Twitter who is not standing right in front of me.
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