Observations

I saw a couple in the park yesterday. If you were to put the volume of the couple on mute, they would look exactly like they were having a nice afternoon in the park. However, once you turn the volume back up, every five minutes one of their phones ring rather obnoxiously, and they answer it, then have a full blown converstation with the person on the phone while their partner is left to sit and listen. This is a scene unique to the present day culture. Forty/fifty years ago, they might actually have been able to enjoy each other’s company without interruption.

I’m not saying that I am entirely innocent of acknowledging my phone when I’m with my significant other at times when it is perhaps rude or innappropriate, I’m not. It just makes me sad that nowadays we are always distracted by our busy lives.

For example, this man answered his phone three seperate times to talk about “some wee fanny” who owes him money, and he couldn’t stop effing and blinding in every sentence. So much for a quiet day in the park.

Furthermore, I am in no position to judge these people because being the owner of a smartphone, I scarecly went ten minutes without checking sms, email, facebook, tumblr… etc.

It just makes me sad that we find it so impossible to relax, even for a few hours in the park in the sunshine, without having to know exactly what’s going on in the more hectic parts of our life.