Using the glad to be alive positive attitude of the popular book to CD, "The Secret", I arrived at my local health club for my daily workout. While attempting to turn into the parking lot, I got "cut-off" by a driver on a cellular phone who accelerated into my "blind spot" without using a turning signal. I walked in beside the driver, smiled and said "Hi, how are you?" He made eye contact and said nothing! The front desk attendant at the club was ending a phone call. I entered, smiled again, and said "Hi, how are you?" No response! As I walked to the locker room, I passed sixteen other people before I got a response to my smile and greeting. Most had their I-Pod wires dangling from their ears, and a "zombie" lifeless expression! With disdain, I mentioned this to the seventeenth individual after he smiled and acknowledged my presence! The following day it took eleven greetings to get a response!
A few weeks before, I went to the beach in the Hamptons. Groups of young people were lying on their towels facing each other with their fingers in continual motion, "texting" each other in lieu of talking to (or about) each other...
The human race is inherently "social", but the inhabitants of our contemporary world are losing their ability to communicate. They are "tuned-in, but tuned out"!
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