Text messaging makes my eyes bleed...

Seriously. I'm not anti text messaging, but come one. Our world has been reduced to a punctuationless, voiceless, eye contact less society where we have our most important and difficult conversations from the safety and anonymity of cyber space or our phones. Used to be if I wanted to tell someone I liked them, I had to look them in the eye and hope they couldn't hear my heart as it tried to pound out of my chest or notice the pool of sweat gathered at the floor as it dripped of my hands.

Here is my fear... we are becoming less and less dependant on human interaction, and that's a bad thing. We no longer really express our true feelings. We bottle those up, hide them away, put on a happy face, and then air our dirty laundry in our texts. I have seen people be in the same room as one another and still text each other. Are you kidding me? Kids have sprained thumbs and bad eyes from hourse spent staring at their tiny little phone screens. Is this really the world we want? Not me. I don't mind the occassional text message, but let me hear your voice, feel your emotion, hear you laugh, watch your thoughts form in your eyes... let me experience other people. Teach me to interact with others. Lot's of things in life are tough, conversations and otherwise, but you know what? You just do them. You buck up and get it done. You don't hide... you face the world, and you grow because of it.

I know I'm old, and I know you probably don't agree with me, but I long for the days when the world was simpler and friends existed in the flesh, not just my inbox.

The worst part of it is that i work with teenagers, and I love them and my job, so until the world changes or technology explodes and we are left a little less connected, I must dance with the enemy. My phones vibrating. I better go.