Remember the days before Ipod’s and Ipads and Iphones and Itunes?
The days before technology encompassed our lives,
And we were caught in the middle of two worlds
Fully immersed in limbo.
A long, lonely, limbo.

Think about it.
Are you EVER really in tuned with the world around you?

There’s the sunset that you’re putting on instagram,
And the cute family moment you’re putting on you tube,
There’s the funny thing you friend just said that you MUST put on twitter,
And face book just NEEDS to check in where you are and what you’re doing
Because just doing it anymore
Will never be enough.
If there’s not a picture
It didn’t
Happen.

We need to try to prove to the world that we have interesting lives
So that we can have more followers
Because followers account to popularity and somehow…
Popularity accounts to happiness.

I try to have a deep conversation,
But when I look around the room everyone is constantly checking their phones
To see that OTHER people are doing…
And for what?
Am I not enough?

An alternative universe swept us off our feet
And blew us away
To a world where texting is preferred to talking
And facetime in preferred to meeting
And fake people are preferred to real people.
But I wont succumb to that logic. 

Refresh
Refresh
Refresh.
I will refresh this world until the word itself has a different meaning.

Our culture is brainwashed into thinking that what is happening on that screen
Is more important that what’s happening in the real world.

So am I crazy to say that I want nothing more than
To NOT grow up
With a world full of people
Who are slowly forgetting how to live in reality?

I want moments that are between us
And not the entire world.
I want something attainable.
I want something real.
I want to live and not
Just
Exist.