This future world is absolutely astonishing. I thought people in the 19th century were distracted and the people here in 2011 are constantly distracted. It is as if their entire life consists of one distraction after another. There are even some people who have never been in the woods, and would never want to. If I weren’t here myself I would never believe this, it’s like a horror story!
Currently I am wandering on the campus of Shippensburg University. There are so many people pursuing further education and yet almost everyone I am passing is on what they call a cell phone. It’s a tiny device that you can apparently make calls to almost anyone from. It gets “service” from these huge towers and somehow you can talk to people from miles away! You can also do something called texting, which I am not quite sure about. Apparently there is a keyboard that you can type on and send a written message to someone just as quickly as making the calls I mentioned earlier. I find this so peculiar, if everyone is constantly talking what do they have to say to each other over dinner?
I was able to stop a group of college students, only because they were walking together were they not on their cell phones, and ask them what all of the fenced off areas consisted of. They informed me that the University wanted to connect the library to a recreational facility they called the CUB. This was even more astonishing than the cell phones. There was so much beautiful open space on this campus that was already taken up by buildings for classes, dining halls, a gym, and parking spaces for these very unusual cars. Why on earth someone would want to take even more of the nature away so people can stay inside while walking from one building to another is just baffling to me.
I also saw students walking around with a flat device with wires coming out of it and into their ears. I thought maybe these students had hearing impairments but when I stopped one of the students to talk they pulled the wires out of one ear and I could hear noise just blasting out of the end. The student informed me that this device was called an ipod and asked me if I was born yesterday. How rude the youth can be today. It is as if they wouldn’t know nature if it hit them in the face, and they are attending a University in the country!
How these people get any sort of work done, I have no idea. What would make a person of 20 years want to waste their life with their nose stuck to a technological device smaller than a deck of cards is beyond me. I think there will be plenty of people who reach their elderly years and wish they had experienced half of the nature I was able to.
I love that this is in his words. It makes it way more enjoyable to read! I like when you used "theres thing called texting" and other things like that because it shows how he would react to the future in walking in a town like Shippensburg.
ReplyDeleteThis is very creative and feel right out of the book. nice job! the part about the headphones is really funning because when I first got an ipod my grandma thought it was a hearing device.
ReplyDeleteI like your quote "if I weren't here myself I would never believe this, it's like a horror story." After I read this I went outside and actually pictured the ideas you're describing. Sometimes I myself run out of things to say or talk about and am quiet at dinner, but sometimes it would be nice to just hear silence. I don't think many people do that anymore.
ReplyDeleteEveryone on campus is either on their phones or listening to iPods, it would have to look so strange to an outsider! Also I like when you talk about the CUB construction and why are we building an inside connection to the library instead of just enjoying the little nature walk outside like it used to be. good point!
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