A Life Well Missed

    Have you ever been to one of those off Broadway theater shows? I’ve heard they can be quite interesting. Often they’re put on by very small theater groups and the play is usually written by somebody in the troop. So you really don’t know what you’re gonna get when you go see one.

     Imagine going to one where you sit down in your seat waiting for the plate to start and as you sit there looking on your phone, the guy comes up on the stage, sweeping the stage with a brown and another guy comes on a stage who looks like he’s the sound guy cause he’s got a headphones sit on and they start talking About their lives. The guy sweeping the broom mentions that his grandfather died a few weeks earlier and his mom isn’t doing too well. They discussed this a great length for several minutes and then they park their ways. Later on a woman comes on the stage talking on her phone. She looks like she may be the director. She’s screaming at somebody for not doing their job. Because it’s on speakerphone, you can kind of hear what the other person is saying and this conversation goes on also for several minutes and ends with her walking off the stage, still angry at the person on the phone Later on somebody in the very back of the theater starts screaming at the person who is selling the tickets and telling them that they already paid for the tickets they shouldn’t have to pay a second time. That conversation goes on for several minutes as well and ends with a woman leaving in a huff. Just when things can’t get any weird or the woman next to you, strikes up a conversation with you and starts talking to you about her mammogram that she had done the day before it goes into a great detail about the experience with you. Several more types of conversations go on like this on stage and in the aisles and after a while the lights come on and they announce that the play is over. You think to yourself “What play? I didn’t see any play!”  but then all the people that had those strange conversations come back up on stage stand in a line and bow. All those different people talking to each other, all those interactions you saw WAS THE PLAY!. Some of it you remember most of you don’t because you’re on your phone and you have lost track of time.  While you were waiting for the play to begin and thought you could kill some time on social media, the play had already begun and you missed it!

     That is what life is like when you’re on your phone. You keep waiting for the play of life to begin and all the distractions that keep popping up all around you that irritate and annoy you are part of the play

     Someone once said that “life is what happens when you’re making other plans” but maybe we should update it to say “Life is what happens when you’re wasting it on social media”

     I hope this illustration helped you see it more clearly