Blood Everywhere

It is absolutely not a generational thing this tech addiction that we so often hear that kids are so bad with. Open your eyes, we are all humans which means we all have the same addictive tendencies, that age plays no role in. Of course I am as bad, you sit down at a coffee shop and the first thing you do is check your phone. What are we checking for? Dopamine, that’s all. It’s our subconscious doing what it does best and taking us to the place where it knows it is going to get a “high.”

Abstinence gives back time, time that could be spent researching, watching the behaviour of others, one of the things I love to do in this life. I like to watch people, looking for clues. Clues come in so many ways, in what people say, what they do with their eyes and of course where the chunk of clues lay in what they do with their bodies.

I see the addiction in my generation and in the older generation. It would not be fair to pin point which generation is more addicted than the other, we are all addicts. Of course the things we are addicted to on our phones are different based on our age despite many trying to buck the trend. Never the less the addiction remains.

The final stage of grief is acceptance and when it comes to our addiction to tech we are probably still on first or second base dancing with denial or anger, some have moved to bargaining but very few.

As with so many things we can run it or we can let it run us. That’s the decision we have to make. Without acceptance of the situation and making a conscious decision we will continue this fast journey of disengagement with other humans.