Joseph Johnston
An apple a day keeps the doctor away… Or does it? What do I say? An apple we use every minute of every day keeps friends, family, and opportunity at bay. It’s like this apple is chained to your hand, lost in a chain of command, we are chained and commanded by a RING! a DING! a BUZZ! a VIBRATION! It’s an irritation. Look at our young nation as the they scroll, surf, and click away… watch our generation of teens waste away behind a screen, let’s analyze this scene we’re hooked on this shit like it’s caffeine, refreshing pages on our phones like a slot machine… half of us were obsessed before we even turned sixteen! It’s like once we got the phone we lost every human fiber now were cyber down to the bone everyone feels so alone it’s like we’re cellular feigns can’t even lift our heads up and detach from the screen, it’s unfair we’re just laced with software, hardware, hold on! Am I self-aware? My life line intertwined with MyPhone, iPhone, dopamine addict high off the phone. Maybe we should try and say “hi” off the phone. Missing out on relationships every day because we can’t give a smile or go out of our way to pick up our head cause were sending a text instead of saying what was said… I simply can’t condone our generation being a stepping stone, due to the fact that we are looking at the world through a camera on the phone, as we keep trying to impress people at home, I’m trying to address the tone. That we look through others lenses but not our own. We are always connected but never connected, losing connection because we as a generation forgot how to connect. Trying to conversate has me irate there’s no eye contact people, too caught up trying to contact their contacts behind some pixels and lights. Look up, look through my sight a dystopia with no insight, a population of smarts, talents, and skill all lost in translation because we don’t have the discipline or power of will to look away from the screen and understand what life really means.
What’s the take away? Put your phone away. Let’s sit down and have a conversation or we will become the lost generation.
