Cell Phones-Good and Bad

The cell phone is probably one of the most convenient inventions ever created while being one of the most annoying and invasive at the same time. You use a cell for good when you call up friends or loved ones who can not be with you physically to let them know you are thinking about and loving them. On the flip side you use a cell for evil when you “check up on people,” or call to argue with them about something.

We have enough stress in the world without technology giving us no personal escape. I think it is completely healthy and necessary to be able to go somewhere alone and think about the way you live. Doing such a thing is not to cut those that care deeply about you out of your life. On the contrary being introspective can allow you to open up more and be closer to one another. When a person can understand how they are feeling and why they act the way they do, it will be much easier to express this to a partner, friend, or lover.

Picture this scenario. You are sitting alone at your favorite hiding spot. Everything is nice and relaxing. Enter cell phone. It rings loudly breaking the silence. All of a sudden you realize you have this device that tracks you. The only force powerful enough to stop an incoming call or text is crappy service. You have been conditioned to want to answer that call. If you decide not to answer you hear that nagging voice mail beep. The moment is completely ruined as you will now wonder who that was and what they wanted.

I admit to being a slave to my cell. My phone is always on and I check it a few hundred times a day. I use it as my watch and sometimes as a form of entertainment. With this being said, I can go out on walks without the thing glued to my hip. And I am certainly not going to let a cell take over people time. My advice is to treat a cell phone like anything else in life… moderately. Understand that answering a call is not the be-all-end-all situation some people make it. Cell Phones should be a helping tool, not a stress inducer.

In other Barbie news… it’s true “things happen when you least expect them to.” Barbie wants to develop this into a bigger segment, but for now I’m going to take it slow and see where the wind blows so to speak. I will say that I am in a great mood and a hidden and sleeping part of me is awakening, much like Sleeping Beauty. My gut says this is the start of something unexplainably amazing.


“Either you define the moment… or the moment defines you.” -Tin Cup