Un-invent

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

If I could un-invent something, unfortunately it would be the very thing I am holding. I wish I could un-invent smart phones. Shocker, I know! I wish we could go back to the days where we had flip-phones.

I enjoy my phone as much, as anyone else, when I need to look up something to cook for supper, or when I need to search side effects associated with a certain medication, but I remember the good ole’ days when we had to talk to our friends on our Garfield house phones, or when we didn’t have social media, to look at everyone’s family photos, and see where someone just got a new vehicle, that made you decide you need a new one too.

I remember when, we wrote letters and put them in the mailbox to tell a friend something, or better yet wrote a letter and folded it to where it made a box with triangles tucked in.

I remember when, we sit down for supper at the table together, and talked about our day, not had our phones in our faces. When we played outside til it got dark, and music was on cassettes, or CDs.

My children are teens now, but oh how I wish I’d never got them a smartphone, until they started driving, because social media has made them compare themselves to others, and I’m sure see some things that the devils slips in everything, that they might not have known what it was, without a phone full of information. Without Smartphones, we wouldn’t have all the distracted drivers, and self-esteem issues that we obtain from thinking we need to look like a model , or have fake eyelashes, and extensions in our hair.

We wouldn’t stress as much around Christmas time, when others posts their Christmas on social media, and we have the feeling that we didn’t get enough for our kids, because it took us working so much extra to make sure they got enough.

I could lay next to my husband and cuddle again without him checking the stock market, and carry on a conversation while cooking supper, or go to the gym with him again.

I miss going to blockbuster or renting a movie to watch, or taking a trip to the park. We miss out on so much around us with smartphones in our face, consuming so much of our minds. Sure, they have so many advantages, but I’d be content to type on a typewriter, and use a dictionary or encyclopedia to look things up again if it meant I could have more meaningful time with my husband or family again.