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1382 days ago

A bit of nostalgia and perhaps a shower thought

Michael Neighbourly Lead from Roslyn - Terrace End

Just had a rather heated conversation with a telemarketer. I dont generally fault these people, its a job, so y'know don't need to make their day any harder but this one was rather rude, and insistent to a fault and by the time I hung up, I nearly tossed my smartphone.

Found myself missing the touch tones, that satisfying ding when you gave it a slam. Man that ding was so satisfying, and I never knew I'd miss it.

Now you got to gently put your phone down lest it crack the screen.

I think that is rather representative of our world at the moment. In society, that there's just so many prompts in our daily lives that we didn't have before just a few decades ago, ones, that we've learned to give us pause like can't slam the phone now for instance or the expensive thing breaks. And the phone could represent how society is, not just more fragile but more sophisticated like that new smart phone.

Now and again I feel everything is too politically correct or for instance kids this generation are more sensitive than mine, like how everybody's offended about something. But I wonder if its less that they lost something I had that made me "Stronger" and more like, they have, or are more than I ever was, they may not be as solid as the old phones we used to slam but they are far more advanced and have so many more uses and capability, we just have to be careful with them like the new glass phones.

Anyhow, just found myself thinking and wanted to share.

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