Seniors every years work their butts off to get a little bit of money for college. We fill out FAFSA, try out for all these scholarships, participate in every extracurricular, and study day and night for excellent grades. Well, we're going about this all wrong. You know what we really need to start investing our time in? Texting. Morgan Pozgar, a 13 year old girl, won $25,000 in a National Texting Championship. How do you like that? We toil for hours making sure our essays are perfect, our tennis stroke is enough for state, and we get at most about 1,000 to 5,000 dollars. And this girl, she gets twenty-five grand for texting! What, is she going to text her way through college?
However, it's not all about this girl with super-texting abilities. It's about society's overall addiction to cell phones and texting. Texting has become the new alcohol. We need a new support group... perhaps we'll call it Cell Phones Anonymous. Cell phones have almost become our extra limb; we feel naked without them. Sitting in class, I can count at least five people ignoring the teacher and texting their friends about that "super-cute boy" they saw at lunch. Sitting at the airport, at least half of the people are on their cell phones. You secretly have to wonder if their calls are substantial, or if they are using their cell phones just to look busy... However, my biggest pet peeve is when people use cell phones at a restaurant. When half of your table is busy dialing away at their cell phones, you have to worry. Um, hello, I'm giving up an hour of my time to eat lunch with you... How come you're on your cell phone on the entire time?
Nonetheless, our addiction to cell phones is a growing sign of our overall dependence on technology and increasing boredom. We have forgotten how to socialize, or we have just gotten lazy. We have become incapable of talking face to face. We can no longer have human contact- we must well all be robots. Before you know it, kids will start getting carpotunnel from texting too much...
In the good old days, it would be rude to talk on the phone while you have company over because as host, it is your job to entertain them. The same applies to text. So, next time your cell phone vibrates with a text and you are talking with someone, give them your full attention. Ignore your text! Half of the time it will be meaningless anyway. Just put down the cell phone and back away!
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I thought it was ridiculous also. What does this say about our future? Nothing. It makes us look so lazy and stupid to other countries. the word she spelled was supercalifragelisticxbealladious in some seconds.
My name is Crissy and I have an addiction... I have been "clean" for four hours.
Pray for Peace
-Crissy