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!”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic","category-rambling","category-technology","category-thoughtworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t