"Did you know that our sub-atomic particles interact with each other?"

I couldn't make this up. I was at Starbucks, and still am, working on my paper for English 105 more or less, and I sat in one of the big comfy couches so I could have an outlet to use, and happened to sit next to one of my regulars who so thoughtly educated me on sub-atomic philosophy, and quantum (sp) physics. All arrogance aside, it was a really interesting conversation. We talked of social networking sites, text messaging, and blogs; all things getting more and more common in our society, and the isolation they can, and often do, create. I was walking from my house to Starbucks. It's maybe a mile or so, and I was text messaging with a good friend of mine, darn near best friend, and for some reason that's our usual interaction. We're both outside of class and work, no reason to have to be quiet, but we very rarely talk over the phone. I have numerous friends who perfer text messages to phone calls, and I never gave it much thought until this evening, and still haven't really sat on it a whole bunch, but his point really got to me. Why is it that so much of us are so okay with text messages, not much more than 100 characters per message or so, and so against phone calls, most of which last no longer than twenty minutes or so. Where did our attention spans go? What's so wrong with wanting to call someone? Or even to physically talk to someone.

Even more so, we're this snooty, pretentious, sarcastic group on a whole I feel like. If we want to compliment or connect, we do it in such a way we don't really put ourselves out there. There's still a bit of bite behind it.


I don't have my thoughts very well-organized on this right now, just like my Eng. 105 paper, and I'll probably never go back and really re-visit this by any means, completely unlike my Eng. 105 paper, but with so many interactions in any given day, going to a university and working at Starbucks and all, his point is going to stick in the front of my brain for a few minutes.