Couples In Bubbles
What’s with couples in public places reading on their phones instead of having an intimate conversation? Touching a screen isn’t nearly as fun!
Cell phone dependency and overuse are taking the oxygen and warmth out of human interaction.
The Waiting room cell bubble. Today I’m sitting opposite a young married couple who have not spoken (or acknowledged the other is still breathing) for 60 minutes. Their fingers on their phones have never stopped. Keep in mind, I am the only person in the huge waiting room with them, and I wouldn’t have heard their small talk anyway.
As I observed the bubble couple, I began thinking of my other outings last week. Our country is truly in trouble, socially.
The restaurant cell bubble. Last week we had a long, leisurely meal opposite a young couple who never interacted with forks in the right hands while punching their cells with the left hands. It was disturbing. They apparently didn’t look at each other, the waiter, or the food. They were like robots. As we walked out, I felt like they were aliens in a bubble, not real live humans.
Enough said? It’s happening in homes, public places, on walks with children and dogs. The humanity vs cell phone issue is a real problem for unity at home, in the office, and in the world. What kind of humanity is enriched by lack of eye-to-eye communication and civil discourse? Thank you for the phrase, Joyce Vance!
So, is this one of the reasons why we have so many young and old people depressed? Is it any wonder that we have so many feel lonely, detached? Though they blame their despair on Covid isolation, I disagree. It seems to me that these bubble souls have self-imposed loneliness on themselves with their cell phones long before Covid hit.
Unless all the cell towers would shut down, I don’t see any hope for bubble couples or bubble families. If you know how to break cell phone addiction, you’ll save humanity from itself.
Gosh yes, we are in trouble! I've just watched Leave the World Behind. lol. But how do you break the bubble? Sometimes, I'm guilty of this, sitting in a resto with the husband and we barely talk. I watch him scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I want to say something but feel so helpless!
So true Diane! In the grocery store, not calling to ask what they need but conversations in the produce section, and my personal pet peeve, at checkout. Not a word to the cashier, not a word in reply. Not even stopping when she asked a question.
I’m on my phone when Hubs is at work but damn people need to interact!!