Disconnected Generations

We are such a visual generation. If something stimulates the mind, we listen to it.

I was talking with a friend today over coffee as I explained my issues with going into writing. I have three mediums of expressing my voice: through writing, music, and friendship. Depending upon the period of my life, one always seems to dominate the other.

For years, music was my main medium of expressing myself. If I had to choose between the voices, my writings often times took the back seat.

I always say that writing was my first love. This passion existed even before my passion for music. After my second grade teacher had us write something on Johnny Appleseed, I knew that I was going to be a writer for the rest of my life.

I grew up with a vivid imagination, something that I believe our society is losing as technology advances. I loved to create stories in my head. It is what inspired me.

This texting, facebook, social networking, generation me is what causes me to fear that writing will become less of an importance. It makes me believe that our creations that come from the development of imagination will suffer as technology and materialism climb to the top priorities of many people's lives. We will lose this sense of wonder.

It is ironic that these technological mediums that are supposed to help us form connections often times do just the very opposite. We are a distracted, disconnected society.

I've been with friends that are so caught up in their conversations via text or facebook that it is almost like I am invisible. There is no connection. The only memories that I am creating are the ones of me observing others creating distant connections.

Which makes me long for the cheap, distant emotional connections because at least it is something in our distracted generation.

And in return, I have become a part of this very generation.