Life without texting. Is there one?

January 12th, 2010 |  by clare munn

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14 people were waiting for the shuttle to take us to the plane. 13 were all furiously thumbing away on their various phones. For once I was not. My phone had died so I had to stand and pretend calmness with myself and my environment. Bored, my other self watched my ridiculous act. I actually started to rock. Perhaps I felt gentle swaying would display profound knowledge of bikram balance. I then began to clean my specs only to realize I was using the scarf of a fellow unknown traveler.

The 7 minutes was endless.

And then… I recalled my practice of biomimicry. I looked around for the genius of nature only to be confronted with 100 percent man made objects. I couldn’t see the sky due to the coaches ceiling and around our airport trees had been replaced by the loveliness of tarmac.

My rocking had begun to annoy my “crowd”.  I began to sneezing fit instead. Immediately I had an additional 3 feet available around me as my crowd had instantly labeled me with H1.

Moral of this story is. Life without digital chatter is extinct so best to travel with 2 sets of phone batteries, unless the runway you are sitting on is on the dust trails in Zimbabwe or Parrot Cay.

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  1. lori says:

    January 12th, 2010at 9:49 am(#)

    I think the real moral of the story is we need our space whether it be digital or virtual and how can we have a sneezing fit on our email to grab a 3 foot circle? Digital chatter keeps the voice in our head quiet and keeps us from going mad…

  2. Carleigh says:

    January 19th, 2010at 12:44 pm(#)

    I totally agree. I wish I could just sit and enjoy the unplugged moments of life, but instead I feel panic and discomfort if I can’t send a text or check my email. It’s sad. I fear society will disconnect with the real world in preference of the virtual world to a point that we lose touch.

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