Reality Check by Dave Whamond for November 18, 2021

My flip – phone doesn’t scroll.

Seems like it these days

Yeah, but life was a lot harder before our phones could scroll.

Scroll, scroll, scroll your phone

Gently down the media stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is one long (live) stream

The infinite scroll of life.

Doom scrolling.

Life has as much or as little meaning as you wish to put into it.

Do it in traffic. It’ll happen faster.

I go for daily walks. I have my phone with me, in a pocket. But I’m amazed at the number of people I see walking with their heads lowered while staring intently at their little electronic buddies.

Our state recently increased its penalties for distracted driving. One of the official reasons was to protect pedestrians and bicyclists from people looking at their phones while driving. That’s a good idea, but the pedestrians need to do their part too. Haven’t noticed too many people looking at their phones while cycling.

I climbed all the way up here for this lousy advice?

As I lay here 3 minutes after awakening scrolling through my daily comics. LOL.

Doomscrolling. Because we is doomed nonetheless.

“I’m sure that’s the meaning of life. I saw it on Facebook.”

I don’t own a cell phone. What do I do now?

Stop and smell the phones … start to stop …? Hmmm ….

Th meaning of life is … one thing. You just need to find out what that one thing is for you.

At this point, I figure after all these millennia, it’s about time someone got to rest in peace without having to leave.

One must not be stubborn. One must be determined.

Well, the good news is that we are raising a whole generation of gurus!

Such a common theme, but I’ve never understood why anyone would expect an individual who has isolated himself away from life would know its meaning… or even if it has one.