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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Never Looking Up

I Don't Want To Be An Ant

I don't want to be in ant. I do have a smartphone, but try to use it as minimally as possible. If I'm with a group of friends, I'll make sure not to be on my phone. Frankly, because it's rude.

I wish more people here in the States were like the Italians. Sure, you can use your phone to find out tidbits of information, but how important are those things? I'd argue that enjoying the trees in your backyard or having a face to face conversation is more beneficial to a person's well being than looking up an interesting fact.





DiamondLou86  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It takes all kinds to make a world, and while I put more merit on time with people and nature (and food and books and music and architecture and ...), there are others who sincerely prefer time spent on tweets and likes. May it bring them happiness. But I pray that there is at least one person in their lives that they can turn off "ant autopilot" and be human with.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4321 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    But I pray that there is at least one person in their lives that they can turn off "ant autopilot" and be human with.

I honestly don't know that everyone has a person they can do this with anymore.