Things have changed in my life-time, for sure,
and there are aspects of that I can’t stand.
Take language, I just can’t keep up anymore,
and some words I don’t want to understand!
I was around when the first VCRs came along,
listened to walk-mans and played Donkey Kong.
You had to be careful making expensive calls
and of computers we hadn’t even heard at all!
I had pen-pals that lived all around the world,
wrote by hand, put on stamps and then wait.
And news didn’t travel very fast at all,
no real-time, always a little bit late.
Still, I compared with those that came before,
with both mother and older still.
And I thought to myself it is good to have more,
to move faster, evolution won’t kill.
Then came computers and changed our lives,
mobile phones, cds, dvds.
Internet and e-mail and a constant strife
to keep up, be online, never free.
So what I miss is waiting for letters to come,
and maybe wait for the phone to ring.
Without outside connection to sit at home,
read a book, relax, not caring
if someone, somewhere takes a picture of their food
or if an updated status may affect your mood.
Obsolete? Perhaps that means people like me,
who are stressed by all the new technology.
Today’s Daily Post offer us the prompt Going Obsolete and suggest we think about things that have become obsolete in our lifetimes. I may have pushed it just a little bit further than that…
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