The plague of cellphones has reached critical proportions! It's as if everyone on the planet now owns and uses a cellphone, at least it's what the latest news research says. It seems to me, that there are people who have this urgent need to constantly be talking to someone. I mean, in the supermarket, the train, walking down the street, there's someone talking on this mobile wonder.
This leads to some confusion, since now we can't tell the crazy people from the "normal". Thanks to the wonders of Bluetooth, the local wackos can now pass unnoticed by us. Because, frankly--you can't tell if they are talking to the voices they hear in their heads or to someone on the Bluetooth cellphone.
There's an old lady in my neighborhood, who before the cellphone -- was looked askance by people who saw her on the street talking to herself, now nobody gives her a second look. The other day on the train, this woman carried a whole argument with her boyfriend, screaming loudly and hanging up on him several times. all this while discussing highly personal matters, that--truthfully -- we did not want to hear.
Don't get me wrong, I like the cellphone, it's just that maybe some people should discover the sheer joy of a silent moment, that could be anywhere from an hour to a few hours. And go back to rediscovering the energizing, and recharging of their mental and spiritual batteries that a few moments of silence can give them.
