I’m sitting in what is quickly becoming one of my favorite places in Houston, Agora. I like the ambiance. I like that it is on Westheimer. I like that there is a guy across the room that keeps looking over at me and smiling, and I like wondering what kind of music is coming through his ear buds. But the truth is, if this place didn’t offer free wifi, nobody would be here..Not a single person is here who is not looking at a glowing screen….we are such a computer laden generation and it really saddens me. The power of human contact has been replaced by technology. Words are now transmitted via text messages and the reader is left wondering what was meant by what they read…this is because as of today, emotions aren’t sent cyberly…but just give it time.
Phone calls are essentially a thing of the past and only used to ask a question or two…and the fact that we have virtually any piece of information at our fingertips just aids in making us more and more lazy, complacent, and expecting that if it doesn’t come immediately its not real or right.
I wonder what God thinks about all this? I’m really glad He didn’t sent me a text message asking to be my Savior. I might not have said OK.
Peace.
3 Comments
September 23, 2008 at 10:59 pm
The only time that I have been to Agora was the only time that I have ever read an entire book in one day. (Most of it was at Agora.) I would like to go back sometime.
September 25, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Texting=awesome
Wifi=awesome
Agora=the picture beside the word awesome in the dictionary.
PeACe
daneK
September 30, 2008 at 4:49 pm
“emotions aren’t sent cyberly”
what, you’ve never heard of ‘emoticons’??
gosh tammi.