This is not a tweet. This is not a Facebook update. Not a txt msg. Not an email with a bunch of happy face icons. I am not sending you a viral video on YouTube. And IMHO, I not LMAO! This is serious, no one is reading books anymore.
We are becoming a "screen" based society. All day and night we are looking at some screen or the other. I was on Pearl Street the other day and I noticed how many people walk and look at their smartphone at the same time. And recently I saw a bunch of teenagers hanging out and they were all clicking away on their smartphones and laughing, they weren't talking, they were texting each other.
I am guilty too. Since I got my iPhone I am addicted to checking my email every two minutes, I don't want to miss anything. I am constantly hopping on Facebook to see what everyone else is doing--"Just went to Starbucks, pretty crowded, but I got my Latte!" "Beautiful sunset tonight" "At soccer games all day, it was fun, we lost, buy kids had fun" "Just went to the bathroom, man, I shouldn't have had that burrito for lunch."
I've got a book on my kitchen table that I got from the library last week and I have not opened it yet. I am busy. We are all so busy. Whenever I meet friends or family and ask how they are doing--"I am so busy." Were people this busy years ago? I know I am very busy with work, and taking my daughters to all of their activities. But, it's not a kid thing. I have colleagues with kids in College and they are "so busy." Friends and relatives who don't have kids and they are "so busy." Next time you talk to one of your friends, see how long it is before they say, "I am so busy."
I get scared that my daughters will never actually read books when they grow up and not have the joy of reading real books. I remember when I was young, I loved to read. I remember devouring one Agatha Christie book after another and how a whole new world opened up to me.
Have you read any good books lately?
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