This is society today.
We are so desperate to be seen, to be noticed,
looking for someone that likes us,
someone that comments.

We check our page again and again
hoping that something will magically appear,
something that is concrete (or as it is nowadays, digital) proof
that we
are
not
alone.

We check our phone for texts,
for calls,
for emails,
something that shows that we are not forgotten.

Why?
We can’t even indulge in the simple happiness of
being with a friend
walking with no destination,
playing like kids on the playground of the elementary school we used to go to,
swimming at the beach.
Why?
Because we’ve forgotten.

How to live without technology.
How to live without having to be reminded by strangers online that we are loved.
that we are heard.
that we even exist.

And we’ve forgotten.
How am I supposed to live without my phone for a day?
How am I supposed to live without texting and emailing?
How am I supposed to live without people online to remind me that I’m really here?
I guess now I’ll never know.