Can You Hear Me Now???....GOOD!

We live in a world where you are either plugged in, hooked up, online or dead. If you're not talking, texting, emailing, instant messaging, tweeting, blogging, video chatting, or facebooking (yes, I believe Urban Dictionary has recently acquired the new verb) then you are probably sleeping (or like I said before..dead). Our permanent state of being seems to be measured by gigabytes and it appears that the new measuring stick of success is measured by the number of FB friends and followers. I'm not condemning; I'm merely commenting at this point. So given that it takes more effort to be "one with nature" and disconnected than it does to communicating on 3 devices, internationally, simultaneously why is that we still seem to be so unaware? So clueless? So doomed to riding a descending vortex into a black hole of oblivion?

As complicated those questions may seem, the answer is rather simple....We are what We want and We want an excuse.

If you've ever answered someone with "I didn't know about that/him/it/her" or "I wasn't aware that's how you felt" then what you are really saying is "I didn't care and / or want to know," perhaps even "I couldn't be bothered."

Let's face it, not one of us (in comparison to all of us) is consistently busier, more important or more stressed than every one of us. For a period of time, you may be able to cite the catch-all umbrella of " overwhelming circumstances," but you should know that even though we may verbally sympathize we are still not subscribing to your issues; we're not buying what you're selling (mostly because we have enough of our own shit already). 

If it's been days...maybe even weeks and you still haven't gotten around to returning that phone call or replying to that email or "liking" that FB post it is not because the cosmic planets have aligned against you and are now taking over your life..... It is simply because you can't be bothered or you do not actually want to respond. Regardless of your delusional thinking, you were NOT born that way, you were NOT raised that way and it is NOT okay. If you have a history of easily and readily avoiding things and people at YOUR CONVENIENCE then it is probably because no one has bothered to call you out on your inconsiderate, self-absorbed tendency because it has become expected of you...and that's just really sad and disconcerting. 

Like I said, I'm not criticizing because as much as I'd like to think and say otherwise, I am guilty of pleading this convenient social, physical, and mental state of perpetual preoccupation and it is just crap.I know it. You know.

Now can we all please just stop pretending to care and own that although we are all entitled to live within on our bubbles for brief periods of time and for "just cause," to continue to do so is a selfish and rather sad coping mechanism.

I am guilty as charged....but am hoping after much self-reflection & introspection to get released on parole for good behavior and reformation.