Hello, real friends

Oh yeah, almost a month now, right?  Despite my so-called personal resolution to keep this blog very updated, not that anyone care, anyway.  I was pretty occupied lately, just like almost everyday of my life since then until now.  Maybe this 'busyness' is a bit overboard, since there are few FB PM that I couldn't reply, left hanging for almost a week now.  Sorry dear friends, I have no good explanation for that except this.  I couldn't commit to any conversation right now, will come back to all of you later.

By the way, this time I would love to address a problem that seems to inflict injury on our social interactions.  Picture this. Few persons, sitting around the same table, or just sitting anywhere together where it is normal to expect conversations to take place.  But instead of talking to each other, each and everyone of them is so engrossed with his/her smartphones, not a word exchanged between those few people.  Instead of laughing with each other, each locked their sight to his/her phones, smiles every once in a while, or maybe annoyed, or laugh, all with the phones, not the real person. It's soooo 2013'ish, so normal that almost nobody gives a heck about it.  It's normal, right?

Well, I personally, prefer to have that old fashion conversation.  Call me conservative, call me old timer, but I do love hanging out, laughing and talking with my friends, not with my phone.  Okay, I am not totally innocent, I do commit this once in a while, but I am trying my best to keep my hands to myself, and minimize my contact with my phone, as much as possible, in other people's presence.  It is rude to actually ignore the persons in front of you, choosing phone over them to converse with.  I have been in that situation, I am being the ignored person, and to tell you the truth, it is really, really annoying.  I'd rather go away and do my own thing than be with the busy person and....do nothing.

This is not Social 101 class, but I do hope we take real life company for serious, for once.  If you must keep yourself updated with your friends' news online, or to entertain yourself, please, do it when you are accompanied by only yourself.  Be considerate, be respectful.

For those friends I ignored this way, please forgive me. I am working on minimizing it, hope you can bear with me.

Let's work together for a healthier social interaction.