July 25, 2022

Reflection

THE CELL PHONE GUY/GAL

The cellphone gal - you see her everywhere.

You're with her and then she disappears - not dramatically - but you see her stand - reach into her pocket - take out a tiny phone - listen for a moment - and you watch her face as she's heading towards the far room.

You think he's at the meal - or the meeting - but as you're with him enough - you realize  he's really at another meeting - and the real person he's with is on a cellphone - in a far room.

The cellphone guy - you see him everywhere.

The smokers outside the building - at least have their fellow smokers - puffing and talking and making gestures - outside the building.

But the cellphone guys and gals seem to be alone,

Yet sometimes I wonder whether the cellphone guy or gal is with another. Or maybe they are waiting for another and this one just happened to call in this in between moment.

I don't know.

As I drive down the interstate - I look over to the car that's passing me. There she is - there he is - the cellphone gal - the cellphone guy.

We are all doing a lot of talking - but is anyone really listening to the other? 

Are we all waiting for the next call?

What did we do  before cellphones?

How did we miss each other in the past?

Maybe someday we'll all have a good conversation about all this - in person - or maybe that's what the cellphone guy or gal is talking about.