Advancing Cases of Mental Illness in Universities

[Mr. Creosote]

Advancing Cases of Mental Illness in Universities (Tom and Todd edit 0.01)

We discover who we are

by interacting with others.
 
How can we make eye contact
when we are constantly looking
at the backs of our thumbs?
©2015

I speak for my generation when I say that, when texting, we never look at the backs of our thumbs, we look at our screens. For how can you text by just looking at your thumbs? That said, I very rarely use my phone anyway (it's on airplane mode for like five days per week -- i only really use it for music), so I'm not that sure whether that note really is generation-representative.

Proper comment -- srijantje said it perfectly: frighteningly funny. I can't help but feel that this needs an appropriate response, though, but I've not the mind right now to write it (probably something about how the written word was so praised before the phone, and how the phone is a sort of corruption of the concept made by the very people who decry it now or something). Any other millenials here?

Seriously, I don't know who else is a millenial here. Although maybe that's a thing to be taken to the other forum--fora. The other fora.

But hey, I read a generational conflict in this thing! Maybe that's a bit too much into the mess -- it does say "we", not "you". Then again, the title pretty much excludes anyone out of college (or college age), so I may be right in reading that in. Maybe. Am I?

I think you are taking the looking at the back of your thumbs part a little too literally