Dear Editor
I recently had bloodwork done at a lab. While awaiting a long 1.5 hours patiently, I bought doughnuts and coffee for these hard workers. I was shocked at how people swarmed around these lab techs everytime they called our numbers. I felt sorry for them for having to contend with the dreads of society – all of us who think we need to be first.
In society, we need to slow down and relax. Enjoy life. Give the front line workers a break. Our needs aren’t before others. Remember that.
Anyway, I was watching people. In particular, a beautiful young parent with a toddler. That parent was on a handheld device that entire time with intensity and hushing the child when the child tried to talk to his/her parent. The child ran his/her hand through the parent’s hair and touched the parent with no response. (I am thankful I didn’t have the technology there is today therefore had to actually interact with my children. Today they are confident young adults.)The child became restless and was only pacified when allowed to hold the handheld device and play on it. Good grief.
What has society become? We lack basic interaction necessary to love and be loved. There is no evolution with this basic need. And for older adults, we have become part of an ungrateful rat race thinking our needs are above others at the cost of the hard working front-line workers.
Stop and appreciate those around you and what you have.
Parents, start banishing yourselves from your phones while your child is learning to talk and walk and learning about the surroundings. Just an opinion. Thank you for reading.
Cynthia George, by email
