People, Put Down Your Phones!

I went to an Open Mic last Thursday and accidentally left my phone in the car ... If I had it, I wouldn't take a pic of what turned out to be a disturbing revelation ...

After the Open Mic was over, everyone started mixing and mingling a bit ... But at one point I looked over at the gathering of attendees and every single person in the place was looking down at a cell phone.

I was both tickled and kind of saddened.

Have we become so fixated on smartphones and social media that we forget to enjoy the old-school way of communicating with having to let our friends and followers know what's going down?

I mean, can we try to enjoy the people around us more instead of working to do play-by-play tweets of the event and selfies during/after it? ...

Try to remember to Enjoy the Event! I often wonder how great a local event/party was if the promoters/organizers have time to be on social media the entire time LOL ...

Anyway. Just had to share that. I think I'm going to leave my phone in the car more often

#EnjoyLife
#Reminder4Self
#PutDownYourPhone