So remember the eclipse? It was, at today's point in time, last month...we were all agog at the time...a total eclipse right here in our neighborhood. Oh Boy. My friend in Denver decided to drive up for the occasion.
Happily enough, this friend also proposed we take some magic mushrooms to accentuate the event. Hadn't accentuated anything for some time, so the idea had considerable appeal.
Big day arrives; mushrooms dutifully consumed; friend gets on his "pad", i.e. computer device, and facebooks the entire time.
I'm in the hot tub. I'm hallucinating on tree bark. I'm listening to bird chorus. Friend is getting "likes" on facebook, which is clearly way more interesting.
I say, "why is digital reality so much better than reality?"...but only hear "I get "likes" as a response.
Then I'm required to watch his high school marching band.....recorded and posted on You Tube lo these 40 years later.
No, really. This happened.
sigh.
It's hell to be 70....one's friends are all so old and stodgy and neurotic.
Also, at 70 we tend to say whatever we think, and often this is not what our friends wish to hear.
Certainly what they are saying to me is frequently not what I want to hear...
But my point is that there is a dischord here....these friends who have been part of our reality for 30, 40 years...begin to be irrelevant, irritating, boring....and new friends are too much trouble. You know?
Is this a general phenomenon or is it just me?
Happily enough, this friend also proposed we take some magic mushrooms to accentuate the event. Hadn't accentuated anything for some time, so the idea had considerable appeal.
Big day arrives; mushrooms dutifully consumed; friend gets on his "pad", i.e. computer device, and facebooks the entire time.
I'm in the hot tub. I'm hallucinating on tree bark. I'm listening to bird chorus. Friend is getting "likes" on facebook, which is clearly way more interesting.
I say, "why is digital reality so much better than reality?"...but only hear "I get "likes" as a response.
Then I'm required to watch his high school marching band.....recorded and posted on You Tube lo these 40 years later.
No, really. This happened.
sigh.
It's hell to be 70....one's friends are all so old and stodgy and neurotic.
Also, at 70 we tend to say whatever we think, and often this is not what our friends wish to hear.
Certainly what they are saying to me is frequently not what I want to hear...
But my point is that there is a dischord here....these friends who have been part of our reality for 30, 40 years...begin to be irrelevant, irritating, boring....and new friends are too much trouble. You know?
Is this a general phenomenon or is it just me?
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