"Hello, can you hear me now?"

Thinking about what would happen if my cell phone was disconnected and I canceled my Internet and cable?
Would that necessarily be a bad thing? 
Back to the days of a landline, some face to face interaction and a VCR.
This thought always surfaces when I see four people at a restaurant not talking to each other but texting four other people who are not even there! 
Social networking gone awry.
The disconnect of the intellect.
Twitter, Facebook, Google searches.
Obviously we cannot go back to the time of solely handwritten communication and the Pony Express, but sometimes it just seems like it was a simpler way to live. 
Would it kill us just to take it easy every now and then?
I think the idea of instant everything, be it download times or coffee makes us crazy.
We feel as though we are standing on the shoreline watching the river rushing towards us, desperate to pull another high tech victim into it's swirling chaos. 
Please don't misunderstand me.
I love technology and progress.
The idea that my children won't ever have to worry about polio or dying from something as simple as measles is a blessing.
The ability to Skype a friend halfway across the world from a tiny laptop on my desk is nothing short of a miracle. 
And the idea that I can post my babbling opinion for others to see with the click of a mouse is honestly astonishing to me.
But let us not lose sight of the present looking for something in the future.
The face to face.
A hug when someone is sad.
A phone call, not a text or an email, just to hear someones' voice.
Our life possibilities are endless, our abilities limitless.
We just need to slow down and enjoy them.....
But first I need to go check my Facebook feed. 
My "living vicariously through others" tank  is running critically low!
......I'm just sayin'