Kennels of Irritation

#18 weapons of mass distraction (IMPORTANT)

-----------------------THIS CONTENT IS NOT MINE ------------------------

It's the video on the side in words tho 

Enjoy :)

I have 120 friends, yet I'm lonely.

I speak to all of them everyday yet no one of them really know me.

The problem I have sits in the spaces between looking into their eyes to write a name on the screen.

I took a step back and opened my eyes, I looked around and realized that this media we call social is anything but.

When we open our computers and it's our doors that we shut.

All this technology we have is just an illusion. 

Community, companionship,

A sense of inclusion yet when you stay away from this device of delusion,

You're awaken to see a world of confusion.

A world where we are slaves to the technology we mastered,

Where information gets sold by some rich, greedy 'master'.

A world of self-interest, self-image and self-promotion where we all leave our best bits but leave out the emotion.

We're at our most happy with an experience we share, but is it the same if no one is there?

Be there for your friends and they'll be there too, but no one will be if a group message will do.

We edit and exaggerate, crave attention, we pretend not to notice the social isolation. 

We put our words into order and tell our lives are glistening, we don't even know if anyone's listening.

Being alone isn't a problem and let me just emphasize, if you read a book, paint a picture or just exercise you're being productive and present not reserved and reclused.

you're being awake and attentive and putting your time to good use, so when you're in public and you start to feel alone, put your hands behind your head and step away from the phone.

You don't need to stare at your menu or at your contact list, just talk to one another, learn to co-exist.

I can't stand to hear the silence of a busy community train where no one wants to talk for the fear of looking insane. 

We're becoming anti-social and no longer and it no longer satisfies to engage with one another and look into someone's eyes.

We're surrounded by children who since, they were born, have watched us living like robots and think it's the norm. 

It's not very likely you'd make "World's Greatest Dad" if you can't entertain a child without using a iPad.

When I was a child, I'd never be home, I'd be out with my friends where our bikes would roam,

where they're holes in my trainers and grazes on my knees.

We'd build our own cub-house, high up in the trees.

Now, the park's so quiet, it gives me a chill, 

seeing no children outside as the swings stand still.

There's no skipping, no hopscotch, no church and no steeple.

We're a generation of idiots; smart-phones and dumb people.

So, look up from your phone, shut down and just play

take in your surroundings, make the most of today.

Just one real connection is all it can take to show you the difference

that being there can make.

Be there in the moment, as she gives you the look you'll remember forever, as love overtook. 

The time she first held your hand and kissed your lips, the time you first disagreed but still loved each other to bits. 

The time you don't have to tell hundreds of what you've just done, because you want to share this moment with just this one.

The time you sold that computer just to buy a ring for the girl of your dreams who is now the real thing. 

The time you want to start the family and the moment when,

you first hold your little girl yet to fall in love again.

The time she keeps you up night, 

when all you want is rest.

the time you wipe away your trees as your baby flees the nest.

the time your baby girl returns with the boy for you to hold,

the time he calls you 'grandad' and it makes you feel old. 

the time you take in all you've made just by giving life attention.

How you're glad you didn't waste it, looking down at some invention.

The time you hold your wife hand and sit down beside her bed,

You tell her that you love her and lay a kiss upon her head.

She then whispers to you quietly, as her heart gives a final beat, that she's lucky she got stopped by that lost boy in the street.

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But, none of these times ever happened, you didn't have any of this,

when you're too busy looking down to see the chances you've missed.

So, look up from your phone,

Shut down those displays,

We have a finite existence,

A set number of days.

Don't waste your life, getting caught in the net,

as when in comes, 

Nothing's worse than regret.

I'm guilty too, of being part of this machine,

This digital world where we are heard but not seen,

Where we type as well talk and read as we chat,

Where we spend hours together without making eye-contact.

Don't give in to a life where you follow the hype,

Give people your love, don't give them your like.

Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined,

Go out into the world, 

Leave distractions behind.

Look up from your phone,

Shut down that display,

Stop reading this rant and live life the real way.