I am well aware that the creation of new inventions and the uprising of technology is, for the most part, a blessing. It means that our minds as well as our society are constantly moving forward and thinking outside of the box.

Now don't get me wrong, I do use my cellphone in excess, I have my laptop on half the day, and my television is sometimes my best friend. But as well as celebrating this moving forward of the human mind, we also have to acknowledge the simple and benign things that we have given up in exchange.

I cannot express to you how much of an obsession I have with all things stationary. Even from childhood, I was addicted to receiving letters in the mail and returning the favor to the wide depths of my family. I blame my writing savvy grandmother, who was the one that had the bright idea of putting a pen in my hand and a paper in my view.

Maybe it's because sending letters, cards, or just pictures was instilled into my life from an early age, but I don't understand how the art of a letter has died within the last 20 years. I hardly get anything in the mail that isn't from my beautiful grandmother, and if I do, it's probably from Ulta or Barnes and Noble.

Doesn't anyone else miss the excitement of seeing your name scribbled upon an envelope in someone else's penmanship? Doesn't anyone else smile as they're reading through the remnants of their best friend's or mother's week? Doesn't anyone else understand that they are not only pieces of paper, but little bits of memories that can be saved for a lifetime?

Snail mail isn't the only thing that I find slowly dying within the 21st century. Another close love of mine is the adventure of a mesmerizing book. And yet, every time I look around campus, an airport, or simply a coffee shop, I see less and less physical copies and more electronic versions.

Now, don't get me wrong, I do own a Kindle. But the reasons behind my ownership are simply for reading in dimly light areas and reducing the weight of my suitcase my ten pounds due to lack of hard cover books. If you give me the choice of a gorgeously designed cover with freshly printed black and white pages or simply a hard piece of plastic with a singular button, I think you can guess my personal preference.

And if you can't relate to the sensation of holding a book rather than seeing it on a screen, it's something that is very laborious to put into words. There is just simply nothing like happening upon the end of a plot line and slowly closing the book as well as your eyes, begging for the story, the writing, and especially the characters back into your life for an extra chapter.

Along with books falling at the hands of technology, so are libraries. Why travel all the way to a library to temporarily own a book when you can just buy it for a few dollars through a Kindle?

This is also a thought process that physically makes my heart hurt. Because although, I am guilty of not going to the public libraries as often as I should, I still fully appreciate a gathering of fictional adventures and non-fictional truths.

And from my childhood to the very present day, I will still get excited walking through the sliding doors and into my own town's library. Not to mention the pride I had, as a child, receiving her first library card (it will go down in the history books).

And lastly, although it is probably one of the biggest impacts upon the upcoming generations in this modern day, is the way that cell phones have impeded the way we interact with people. And I am aware that the generations before us complain about cell phones curbing the every day lives of the younger generations, but in my experience, it's not just "the millennials." It's everybody: toddlers, children, teenagers, young adults, parents, and grandparents. Cell phones are no longer a young person's accessory.

And as the days go on, I am repeatedly exposed to text-filled family dinners, Facebook-browsing lectures, and cell phone gatherings instead of social ones. People are losing the ability to hold up one end of a natural conversation, and it's concerning. To me, I'd much rather see you in person and make memories rather than making Bitmojis.

The rampant rise of technology is an impressive feat for the species of man, but I would also like to savor in the way things used to be. The simple things in life are becoming more rare every second. I mean after all, aren't you are reading this on a screen rather than a piece of published paper?