Gary Turrk Look Up Analysis

In another video, “Look up” by Gary Turk, we live in a world full of social media “friends” that we speak to everyday but none of them really know me. We have a decision to look into people’s eyes or a name on a screen, most choose a screen. If you take a step back and look around you may realize social media is anything but social. All the technology we have is just an illusion. When most people step back from social media they are confused because their life revolved around it and they do not know what to do. We are slaves to the technology we created. A world of self-image where we share our lives but leave out the emotion. Taking pictures of our adventures that we take, showing it for the world to see but is it that same if no one is there
to share it with.
Being there for one another is great but no one will be there if a group message will do.
People pretending not to notice the social isolation, we put our lives out there on social media trying to make our lives look perfect for people we think are listening. There are other ways to entertain ourselves like read a book, pick up a hobby or even exercise, being productive and present in life and putting your time to good use. Whenever you are in public feeling alone in a room full of people put your phone down and talk to one another learn to coexist. We are becoming unsocial it is easier to look at a phone than to look into each other’s eyes. We live in a world where children as young as five pick up a phone like it’s the norm. Becoming world’s best parents is less likely when you cannot entertain a child without an iPhone or
iPad.
Children almost two decades ago wouldn’t be locked up staring at an iPhone, they would be outside playing with each other or alone. Being in a car going on vacation you make up games to entertain yourself. In my day parks would be full of people, now they are empty. Children would rather play on an iPad, or watch TV, in my generation we would ride bikes and play on the swings. As we get older, I fear children will not know what it is like to go outside and play, it will be like robots marching to the same drum. Our youth area generation of idiots full of smart phones and dumb people.
Just put down the phone, take in your surroundings and make the most of your day because you don’t know when it could be your last. You don’t want to be known as the one who couldn’t put down the phone. You don’t have to report to the millions online, just share the moments with the people that mean the most in your life. Take in all that you have done, just by giving life attention, and be glad how you didn’t waste it looking down at some invention. If you keep looking down you don’t see the chances you could have had, because in the end life is more important. Because in the end nothing is worse than regret.
Most people regret many things in life, do not let your technology be one of them. There are many things you can do in life instead of wasting it, looking at a device. Do not let a device control your life, a text can wait, or the moment you just captured. Take back control, because if you do not it will consume and destroy your life. Be an example for the following generations, do not let them believe it is a norm to be on technology every waking second of their life. Look up from the devices, have a conversation you never know when your last day is up. March to your own drum, do not be a
follower.
As technology grows and the new generations grow the more their morals and values change, allowing them lazier with autocorrect, taking things for granted like life and family and become more dependent on technology than ever. Using technology not in a way it is not intended for. As adults we should set an example for our youth showing them there is more to life than technology, showing them the importance of being dependent on ourselves and others, not to rely on technology. As well as, the importance of human interaction. Because if we do not the new generations will be just like “walking zombies.” Anti-social, confused, half a brain and more selfish than ever. As they stare at their phones the world will continue and they wont even realize it till it is to late.