Disconnected

       Hi my name is Lizz, and I enjoy having a face to face conversation with people. “HI LIZZ.”   -The desire began about 15 years ago. The first time I was introduced, I was hooked. I’ve tried stopping, I swear. I got unlimited texting on my phone, going through rehab I got twitter, facebook, and instagram treatments. Nothing worked! I would sneak away from the computer and meet up with people… getting back into my old habits. There was just such a thrill about it, looking in people’s eyes instead of their phone numbers, laughing together instead of LOL’ing one at a time. We have never been so close to one another as we are today, and each day we meet more and more people, and learn a lot about them. But that’s the problem, when you are close to everybody, how do you know who wants to be close to you?

       You could know that my favorite animal is a peacock without ever talking to me, but do you know why? You could know when I’m at chipotle, or work, or at the cottage. But you should be ashamed, stalkers used to have to work much harder back in the day. Yeah it is fun and easy to just text somebody, or tweet at them, but really, what are you accomplishing? Because in my opinion if you never make time to see me, I’m not important to you. On another note, I remember when I was younger and my mom would tell me stories about how she would meet boys and she would wait by the one chord phone on the wall all night waiting for him to call, and then she would spend all night talking quietly under the kitchen table. I couldn’t wait for that, to wait by the phone, and learn everything about them over dinner and at hockey games. But mostly, I couldn't wait to watch a boy get nervous to talk to me, and be asked on a date. Now I’m not a super loser, I have gone on dates, but not one boy has had to build up the courage to ask me in person. The one thing I was so excited to happen when I grew up, and now It never will because now we have technology.

~Lizz~