Miss Frost..

I saw a guy of a similar age to myself reading on the bus today. It got me thinking...

I probably spend a reasonable 4 hours using my phone a day. Whether that be scrolling on Facebook, listening to music, playing a game or even just editing a recent selfie. 

Forgetting that fact for a moment I can't remember the last time I went anywhere without my phone. In fact it was just this morning I was searching my bag franticly trying to find my phone worrying about what i’d do all day with out it. 

Just yesterday when it was 25 degrees out I spent more time when I was with my mate worrying about the charge on left in my phone then what we were actually doing. Snapchating this, power saving that, messaging him, her. Almost forgetting the person in front of me for 2 minutes at a time before snapping back into the real world. 

I’m glad I grew up in a time where i played out till the sun went down and computers got boring after an hour because it involved sitting in the same place and phones were for phoning people and sending texts but it took so long to write one that it was easier to go and knock the receivers door because when i was younger it was okay to ring a door bell instead of waiting around the corner ringing my friend on facebook messenger because I'm too socially awkward to ring the door bell incase i end up standing in silence with their mum.

Phones were invented to connect us as a society but i go to parties where everyone “selfies” and “checks in”. Snapchats longer then the time they spent at the place. “look at us. Look at what we are doing.” All i see is a bunch of people looking mindlessly into a phone, ‘catching the moment’ but what are they catching if they are too busy pressing ‘post and send’ 

I use my phone to avoid eye contact. I turn my music up to pretend i can't hear someone trying to catch my attention. But what for?

We are nation of lost people but the real question ‘could you go with your phone for 24 hours?’ without wondering what was going on or who had texted you or liked that selfie you posted yesterday? i know i probably couldn't.

See we could all be like that boy on that bus. God knows we’d be more opened minded and maybe even a little tiny bit educated... I’d love for the person who sits next to me on the bus to take his ear phones out, shut his phone off and start a conversation...

So its the 1st January 2016... A new year and whats changed?! nothing. 

The perception that the new year can change you, i, them or just simply everyone. What is this about? The demand to paint everyone with the same brush, to create the impression that a change of a few numbers can make a person turn into a brand new self. Like we recycle ourselves into a new person. Now simile or not that it really isn't possible. So why, why do we do it to ourselves each year? why do we create a fantastic plan that is only going to let us down? Is it society? no. Are we following the famous? probably not. So why?

Kim Kardashian stated on twitter on the 31st December 2015 that she want to be “extra nice” and i quote “Just thought of another New Years resolution.I really want to make my moms life easier & be extra nice! She's the best &does everything 4 us” Now I'm not a genius but Kim is what 35? with two children... If she hasn't managed it yet what is the change of a few numbers going to do, really?

 Now I'm not picking on Kim in particular if thats what she wants to do then fair enough i wish her luck. It’s a lovely idea. I guess what I'm trying to say is she's just one of many who will create a 2D image which will probably never make it to 3D because be February who actually thinks “Got to make sure i continue on with my new years resolution” Because i know for a fact i don’t and thats not because i don't have time thats because i have better and much bigger things to face my time to. You know just being an adult in general is enough. With out the added pressure of I'm going to loose a stone or i’m going to stop swearing. (which by the way are the worst out there) 

I can see by reading this that I'm probably making such a big deal out of such a small thing. But this perception rattles my cage. I mean it really gives it a good shake. I guess everyone has their own ideas and problems. There are probably many people in the world that think its a great idea. I think its safe to say i am not one of them! But if you are still reading by now then probably most likely you feel the same as me. 

So if you are, my question to you is why, why are you still reading? But also what do you feel puts you in this state of mind? 

For me i think the history repeating its self inside a new skin each year is enough to make me feel this way.. 

Finally,