Okay. Technology doesn't completely suck. But it's overcompensating for human life! What creativity arises when we constantly have access to a whole other world simply at our fingertips?

Don't get me wrong, there's no easy way to prove that this is fully valid. For every pro, there is an overbearing con awaiting to attend. Yes, technology has majorly benefited us in todays society but it has also downgraded our existence. What are we here for now, since a phone can do everything we can do?

For instance, the first iPhone was released in June 29, 2007. It is currently 2018. Look at how much it has impacted us already. Our schools, our jobs, our relationships.

Remember when you were younger and you'd get up super early on Saturday's only to catch the Saturday morning cartoons. And remember when your mom told you that you weren't allowed to watch a specific show? Did you know why? It's because they didn't want your mind to be infected by an ugly source that came from their living room.

Keep in mind, our brains are still this sensitive.. we just have more control over the emotions and feelings that conflict it. Which means, anything we see, feel, make a connection with (and this includes people) can ultimately effect us. More inherently than if we were to experience these things hands on or face to face.

Technology has replaced genuine with artificial. No wonder this generation has trust issues! I'm not going to be cliche and say that I wish my generation wrote me letters by hand, throw pebbles at my window, or ringing my doorbell. But those things are certainly more humane than sending a blue lettered text "come over". Right?

It could all be so simple. But yet we have all sorts of technology to complicate even the most complicated species.

I think technology is great. When it is used for technology. Not people.

Technology acts as a buffer. It produces more anxiety than people do, but here we are using it to escape. Thinking it will all be okay if I'm sitting behind a lit up screen waiting for a reply of thoughts then giving the same in return. It allows us to think more, even when we don't necessarily want to.

It's a mess. Depending how you use it, it continues to drain us of our thoughts, energies, even our greatest ideas. We forget about it all when we see a tweet that we relate to, or a post of a pretty face. We forget who looks at us in the mirror every morning, and who tucks us into bed at night. It's not your followers or a dm from that cute boy who favorites your tweets. It's you. In case you forgot.

So yeah, technology sucks! Personally, I try to use it less. Only to de clutter the mind from anything other than the reality I see through the naked eye. It's enormously helpful in a world like today, but that's only because the world today is brought up of the same material technology came from. Our iPhones can even spell check our words… in a text… not even a college paper. Imagine the laziness that already pertains to most of the population.

It's an epidemic that's only getting worse. A cause of unnecessary chatter in our heads about things that are distracting us from the life in front of us, and probably don't matter.

Our population is too busy worrying about what he said or she said when they can barely control their lives behind the scenes. Imagine what they'd do without posting about their last trip they went on. It would be just that. The last trip they went on.

It's not that fun if you can't share it with someone else, right? It's possible to have best of both worlds.

Would they really know you or try to get to know you if you didn't post things on your timeline? I guess you'll have to find out the hard way, or should I say… the reality way.

Then it becomes this big deal, because their brains are already programmed to do the same. Oh god! What could happen next? Nothing. Then you'd have to go on living because they don't care. So you just wanted them to care? What else? Then you'd have to think about it what it was you actually wanted. Which is nothing. Because you probably didn't know what you wanted in the first place.

See, all this stuff is made up, it's all a buffer. You could have gotten to know someone better than yourself in the same amount of time that you spent on Tinder.

Whenever I reflect on certain subjects like this one, I try to imagine what caveman would've been doing on this earth rather than what we are doing now. Then it usually makes me realize how silly it all is.

But for now, I will enjoy my Netflix tv shows and taking pictures of beautiful scenes, funny friends, and cute dogs that I will reflect on later down the road.

Moderation is key, but an opinion is huge.