Hey guys, 

This is a bit more personal, and less professional. If you aren’t into that go ahead and just stop reading here. 

I think that as humans we’ve become so in touch with everything that in some round about way we are really more out of touch than ever. That sentence doesn’t really make sense, but I’ll try to explain. These days we all have our phones attached to our hands. We’re in communication with people 24/7, and I’m just as guilty about this as the next time. Always texting, tweeting, instagramming, snapchatting, you name it. I do it almost all day. It’s pretty bad. There’s a point to all of this though. I think that all of this communication and such has really affected my friendships and relationships. For example I was once seeing a girl for a while and we texted every day and would go out frequently and what not. I booked a job that had me away for a week. I was not only away for the week but I had no internet or cell phone access what so ever. Over the course of this week I just realized that this girl was not the right person for me. I just realized that after being away from her and not talking to her for just a few days I didn’t really miss her. This may sound incredibly cruel, and maybe it is, but when I came back we broke things off. And she’s happy now I think. I just wonder if you took a young couple from today and told them they couldn’t talk at all for a week, could they do that? I just realized that I was with this girl because of the constant communication and almost routine of it, not really because she was the girl for me. 

Maybe I just had a unique experience, maybe i’m crazy. I don’t know. I just think that this whole smart phone revolution has really changed things. I’ve never connected more with someone than being face to face with them. I’ve never hung out with someone and thought, gosh I wish I was just talking to them on the phone. 

This has been the most random, confusing blog post ever. To wrap all this up I’m going to put my thoughts in brief concise statements. Even though we now have everyone we could ever want to talk to at our finger tips in a cell phone, I think we are more out of touch with one another than ever before. I also think that not talking to someone for a period of time can really make you reset and think if you really want to stay in contact with that person or if you miss them or think about them at all. 

End rant, should probably not even post this, but oh well. Welcome to my weird mind. 

Matt Shouse