How to Communicate?
How do you know when it's the proper time to…
Send an e-mail?
A text message to a cell phone?
Call on the phone?
Leave a voice message?
Or just leave your number with no message?
Send a Fax?
Mail a letter?
Just go see the person and speak face to face?
It's all very confusing, and it makes me fight to feel human.
I was in Utah hiking through Zion National Park, and I entered a
narrow cavern, barely shoulder width. There were etchings on the
red rock walls of big horned sheep, buffalo, elk, and images of
people, rivers, spiral designs, and other things that looked like
art. Some of these petroglyphs carved into rock dated back to the
Paleo Era before 6500 BC.
I'm pretty sure that all these newer choices of communication far
exceed our human needs and are now causing stress to people.
Most people I know complain about getting too many e-mails, and
that they can never really leave their jobs because they are
reachable 24/7.
I know that ancient people didn’t have long lives, and that it was a
struggle just to survive every day. But aren't we still struggling
too in different ways? Just take your cell phone and drop it into a
bucket of water and walk away if you really want to know the
answer.
I have become very fond of hiking, fishing, swimming in the
ocean, lifting weights, and walking around New York City without
my cell phone. It's nice, these things.
Send an e-mail?
A text message to a cell phone?
Call on the phone?
Leave a voice message?
Or just leave your number with no message?
Send a Fax?
Mail a letter?
Just go see the person and speak face to face?
It's all very confusing, and it makes me fight to feel human.
I was in Utah hiking through Zion National Park, and I entered a
narrow cavern, barely shoulder width. There were etchings on the
red rock walls of big horned sheep, buffalo, elk, and images of
people, rivers, spiral designs, and other things that looked like
art. Some of these petroglyphs carved into rock dated back to the
Paleo Era before 6500 BC.
I'm pretty sure that all these newer choices of communication far
exceed our human needs and are now causing stress to people.
Most people I know complain about getting too many e-mails, and
that they can never really leave their jobs because they are
reachable 24/7.
I know that ancient people didn’t have long lives, and that it was a
struggle just to survive every day. But aren't we still struggling
too in different ways? Just take your cell phone and drop it into a
bucket of water and walk away if you really want to know the
answer.
I have become very fond of hiking, fishing, swimming in the
ocean, lifting weights, and walking around New York City without
my cell phone. It's nice, these things.
© 2007 by Michael Domino
