As I prepare to say goodbye to my twenties next week, I'm finding it more and more necessary to reminisce a bit about how far we have come as a society, how different everything is now and how we have evolved as a whole.
I was lying in bed the other night, tossing, turning and avoiding the temptation to look at my phone and then I thought to myself: I don't remember the last time I went a day without using my phone or computer. Oh wait, yes I do, it was about twenty years ago when my family got our first massively bulky computer. We didn't have a lot of money growing up so getting this was a HUGE deal to our family. After school my brother and I would spend most of our time fighting with each other about who would get to use it first, how long they got to use it or how it wasn't fair that we had to get offline because our mom had to use the phone. Those were the days.
Fast forward about four years or so to the amazing land of beepers and Nextel phones. I didn't have a cell phone at the time but my dad let me borrow his bulky Nextel (with that annoying walky-talky feature). I remember taking a test in a very quiet classroom one day and (at full volume I might mention) my new step-mom decides that would be a great time to page in a very personal "I love you" message to my dad. Nope, not embarrassing at all for a sophomore in high school. Moving on.
I finally got my first "real" phone in 2006: a hot pink "Razr" flip phone. I couldn't do a lot with it but I thought I was the coolest because, well, it was pink and that's all that mattered really.
This eventually led to my first touch screen phone in 2009 and it's pretty much all downhill from there, I was officially addicted to technology and all it had to offer.
The point of this mini flashback is not to shame the dependency of technology (although I will have to admit, I should put the devices down more often) but to admire how fast we got from point A to point B. Look how far we've come in just twenty short years! I'm excited to see what's in store for the next thirty years of my life!
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