Recently in my English class, we took on a class discussion about speed. My professor wrote a great quote on the board that I seriously can’t seem to think of (times like this I wish I would have took notes instead of relying on my memory). Although I can’t think of the exact words, the quote was something along the lines of the speed in which we go, we do not see what’s around us. I know each of us have heard a saying like this before. But when you think about it, it actually does hit each and every person. Say you’re speeding in your car like flying down the highway, do you really see anything? Or is everything a blur just passing you by? This representation plays a role in the life we live in today. Technology is allowing the things that are closer to us, hardest to see.
We are moving so fast, updating technology, discovering new things, and etc at an alarming rate. Have you ever thought about the weirdness between a text message and how fast it gets from one city to the next, or even one side of the world to the next? It’s almost mind blowing to wrap your head around it. Sometimes I wish that technology was not so available to me. I hate that when I walk somewhere by myself, my first instinct it to pull out my phone. Or whenever I’m at a table with friends instead of talking face to face, we’re exchanging phones laughing at Twitter.
To sit and think about where the world probably will be in 15 years is even crazier. Will we even use hand held phones or will they create things like fancy lenses that allows for the screen to be literally right in front of your face. We all crave the newest gadgets, updates, and everything but sometimes I wish that things will slow down a bit. We are moving so fast, but losing the sight of things that are around us. We are no longer embracing the sight of a pretty day, saying hello to one another, but more so missing things that are right in front of us.