I was talking with a friend the other day, and the fact that he does not have a cell phone came up. I, of course, was amazed. Immediately I said what most mobile-toting folk would say: “I don’t know what I would do without my phone!”
His response was simple: “No, it’s easy. You know what you have to do? All you have to do is keep your commitments. You make a plan, and you stick to it.”
What an enlightened thought. It’s completely true, mobile phones allow us to be carefree and without a set plan. But maybe this isn’t always a good thing. Perhaps this is causing us to forget how to make and keep commitments. And a society that doesn’t know how to commit to something is almost certainly a bad thing. Sure, we can be unchained on a minute-by-minute basis, but don’t we lose something by acting this way?
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