It was a Tuesday night and I found myself in the Shubert Theatre, just off Times Square. It was after a long day at work, sitting at a desk and staring at document after document. I was with my boss, Erika Finn, and we were there to see the showing of "Matilda." I'm not going to pretend that I know a lot about plays or musicals or anything like that. I'm a very uncultured, basic person, I'm sorry, but even I was excited to be sitting there.

But I started this internship with working for Erika and recently I have had my eyes opened to the very fantastic world of Broadway and all things alike.

Like any sort of viewing event, you are supposed to turn off your phone. In movie theaters, you are reminded by a cute preview before the movie even starts. Someone even reminds you over the loudspeaker sometimes at shows too.

If you ask anyone in my life, including my ex-boyfriend (which was his main complaint), they would say I'm addicted to my phone, even my data bill would snitch on me. I love social media and reading articles and looking at photos. It's a problem, but even I have the restraint to hold the power button and watch the screen of my phone turn black for the next two hours.

The play was great. "Matilda" was and is one of my favorite movies (the pancake scene still makes me feel like eating a short-stack and dancing). And whenever I see talented kids under five feet tall, I always feel super inadequate and question what I'm doing with my life. It's just like when I watch "MasterChef Junior."

However, after intermission, I was watching the stage light up with sounds, perfect harmonies and adorable kids. Somewhere in between all of that, a glowing screen caught my eye.

A girl, no older than 10, was sitting rather slouched in her seat a few rows ahead of me, a hoodie pulled up over her head. Her face inches away from her iPhone. Her thumbs scrolled through Snapchat. Clicking on what seemed to be an endless amount of unseen stories.

And I was horrified. Horrified for her, for her parents, for what we have created as a society.

Is this the point where society is? That kids can't even go more than an hour without checking Snapchat during a show? A show that cost quite a lot of money to sit there in the audience. Why waste that to stare at nothing new?

I understand if people have demanding jobs and have to keep track of emails and calls, but at such a young age, you shouldn't be addicted or glued to a device that truly means nothing. You are blocking your view of a hundred dollar ticket for an imaginary screen with made up numbers and friends.

Social media is made up. It's not real. The play in front of you is real. The person sitting next to you, breathing in rhythm, is real. Take advantage of that. Snapchat will always be there; don't worry. But being young and having the world at your fingertips, like the opportunity to sit and watch a Broadway play won't always be there and isn't even a possibility for most people.

We all stare at screens way too often these days, whether it's at a desk job or right before you turn the light off to go to sleep.

I'm not hating on technology or the Internet or computers because I love the progress we have made even in the last decade with technology. But, I even can recognize that apps like Snapchat and Instagram don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. And it pains me to say that because I spend way too much time evaluating whether I should post something on Instagram.

But life is too short and, frankly, too shitty to spend it watching someone's Snapstory. Make some pancakes, buy a ticket to a Broadway show and kick your phone into the Hudson (OK, maybe that's extreme); live.