Pod People
There's something I've been noticing more and more recently. Everywhere I go, people of all ages seem to be plugged into some sort of headphones. At the grocery store, walking down the street, catching some sun in Golden Gate park... everyone bobbing their heads to their own personal life soundtrack.
This makes me wonder... are we missing crucial opportunities for interpersonal connection? I know so many single people who constantly gripe that they can't meet any nice Others out there. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that he's listening to Duran Duran while she grooves to R.E.M... right next to each other in the toilet paper aisle. It's just a thought.
Today, I was walking around my neighborhood, enjoying the sunny weather, and I decided to try an experiment. I counted no less than 8 out of every 10 people plugged in to some sort of headphones.. usually white, iPod-looking things. So, whenever I passed someone, I smiled and said, "Hi!" Most of them didn't even hear me because they were too busy shakin' their groove thangs to Outkast.
I tried this a few times before I gave up. Having failed to create world peace with my social experiment, I dialed up some old time country music on my own iPod, plugged my headphones back into my ears, and continued on my way to Golden Gate park to enjoy some musical solitude.
This makes me wonder... are we missing crucial opportunities for interpersonal connection? I know so many single people who constantly gripe that they can't meet any nice Others out there. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that he's listening to Duran Duran while she grooves to R.E.M... right next to each other in the toilet paper aisle. It's just a thought.
Today, I was walking around my neighborhood, enjoying the sunny weather, and I decided to try an experiment. I counted no less than 8 out of every 10 people plugged in to some sort of headphones.. usually white, iPod-looking things. So, whenever I passed someone, I smiled and said, "Hi!" Most of them didn't even hear me because they were too busy shakin' their groove thangs to Outkast.
I tried this a few times before I gave up. Having failed to create world peace with my social experiment, I dialed up some old time country music on my own iPod, plugged my headphones back into my ears, and continued on my way to Golden Gate park to enjoy some musical solitude.
posted by Bert at 9:37 PM
1 Comments:
I think if somebody is trying to reach out, regardless of being plugged in or not most people would recognize the fact. People choose to ignore things like unwarrented replies using the my head is in the sand and I can now ignore you umbrella.
It works much better then the older prior method of plugging one's ear's and saying "la la la" out loud.
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