{"id":1488,"date":"2015-01-22T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zapleti.si\/kosovarjevi\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2015-01-22T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:36:39","slug":"look-up-poglej-okoli-sebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zapleti.si\/kosovarjevi\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/look-up-poglej-okoli-sebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Look up &#8211; Poglej okoli sebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7dLU6fk9QY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Look Up.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI have 422 friends, yet I am lonely.<br \/>\nI speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me.<\/p>\n<p>The problem I have sits in the spaces between,<br \/>\nlooking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen.<\/p>\n<p>I took a step back, and opened my eyes,<br \/>\nI looked around, and then realised<br \/>\nthat this media we call social, is anything but<br \/>\nwhen we open our computers, and it\u2019s our doors we shut.<\/p>\n<p>All this technology we have, it\u2019s just an illusion,<br \/>\nof community, companionship, a sense of inclusion<br \/>\nyet when you step away from this device of delusion,<br \/>\nyou awaken to see, a world of confusion.<\/p>\n<p>A world where we\u2019re slaves to the technology we mastered,<br \/>\nwhere our information gets sold by some rich greedy bastard.<br \/>\nA world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion,<br \/>\nwhere we share all our best bits, but leave out the emotion.<\/p>\n<p>We are at our most happy with an experience we share,<br \/>\nbut is it the same if no one is there.<br \/>\nBe there for you friends, and they\u2019ll be there too,<br \/>\nbut no one will be, if a group message will do.<\/p>\n<p>We edit and exaggerate, we crave adulation,<br \/>\nwe pretend we don\u2019t notice the social isolation.<br \/>\nWe put our words into order, until our lives are glistening,<br \/>\nwe don\u2019t even know if anyone is listening.<\/p>\n<p>Being alone isn\u2019t the problem, let me just emphasize,<br \/>\nthat if you read a book, paint a picture, or do some exercise,<br \/>\nyou are being productive, and present, not reserved or recluse,<br \/>\nyou\u2019re being awake and attentive, and putting your time to good use.<\/p>\n<p>So when you\u2019re in public, and you start to feel alone,<br \/>\nput your hands behind your head, and step away from the phone.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t need to stare at your menu, or at your contact list,<br \/>\njust talk to one another, and learn to co-exist.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t stand to hear the silence, of a busy commuter train,<br \/>\nwhen no one wants to talk through the fear of looking insane.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies<br \/>\nto engage with one another, and look into someone\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re surrounded by children, who since they were born,<br \/>\nwatch us living like robots, and think it\u2019s the norm.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not very likely you will make world\u2019s greatest dad,<br \/>\nif you cant entertain a child without a using an iPad.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a child, I would never be home,<br \/>\nI\u2019d be out with my friends, on our bikes we would roam.<br \/>\nWe\u2019d ware holes in our trainers, and graze up our knees;<br \/>\nwe\u2019d build our own clubhouse, high up in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Now the parks are so quiet, it gives me a chill<br \/>\nto see no children outside and the swings hanging still.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no skipping or hopscotch, no church and no steeple,<br \/>\nwe\u2019re a generation of idiots, smart phones and dumb people.<\/p>\n<p>So look up from your phone, shut down that display,<br \/>\ntake in your surroundings, and make the most of today.<br \/>\nJust one real connection is all it can take,<br \/>\nto show you the difference that being there can make.<\/p>\n<p>Be there in the moment, when she gives you the look,<br \/>\nthat you remember forever, as when love overtook.<br \/>\nThe time you first hold her hand, or first kiss her lips,<br \/>\nthe time you first disagree, but still love her to bits.<\/p>\n<p>The time you don\u2019t need to tell hundreds, about what you\u2019ve just done,<br \/>\nbecause you want to share the moment, with just this one.<br \/>\nThe time you sell your computer, so you can buy a ring,<br \/>\nfor the girl of your dreams, who is now the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>The time you want to start a family, and the moment when,<br \/>\nyou first hold your baby girl, and get to fall in love again.<br \/>\nThe time she keeps you up at night, and all you want is rest,<br \/>\nand the time you wipe away the tears, as your baby flees the nest.<\/p>\n<p>The time your little girl returns, with a boy for you to hold,<br \/>\nand the day he calls you granddad, and makes you feel real old<br \/>\nThe time you take in all you\u2019ve made, just by giving life attention,<br \/>\nand how your glad you didn\u2019t waste it, by looking down at some invention.<\/p>\n<p>The time you hold your wife\u2019s hand, and sit down beside her bed<br \/>\nyou tell her that you love her, and lay a kiss upon her head.<br \/>\nShe then whispers to you quietly, as her heart gives a final beat,<br \/>\nthat she\u2019s lucky she got stopped, by that lost boy in the street.<\/p>\n<p>But none of these times ever happened, you never had any of this,<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re too busy looking down, you don\u2019t see the chances you miss.<\/p>\n<p>So look up from your phone, shut down those displays,<br \/>\nwe have a finite existence, a set number of days.<br \/>\nWhy waste all our time getting caught in the net,<em><br \/>\n<\/em>as when the end comes, nothing\u2019s worse than regret.<\/p>\n<p>I am guilty too, of being part of this machine,<br \/>\nthis digital world, where we are heard but not seen.<br \/>\nWhere we type and don\u2019t talk, where we read as we chat,<br \/>\nwhere we spend hours together, without making eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t give in to a life where you follow the hype,<br \/>\ngive people your love, don\u2019t give them your like.<br \/>\nDisconnect from the need to be heard and defined<br \/>\nGo out into the world, leave distractions behind.<\/p>\n<p>Look up from your phone, shut down that display,<br \/>\nstop watching this video, live life the real way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Is your young child asking for an iPad this Xmas?&#10;Parents, look no further&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/h0qgu5RlFc\">pic.twitter.com\/h0qgu5RlFc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gary Turk (@Gary_Turk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gary_Turk\/status\/545279561265848320\">December 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look Up. I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me. The problem I have sits in the spaces between, looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen. I took a step back, and opened my eyes, I looked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zapleti.si\/kosovarjevi\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/look-up-poglej-okoli-sebe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Preberi ve\u010d o <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Look up &#8211; Poglej okoli sebe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[213,212],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwin_nima_prav","tag-gary-turk","tag-look-up"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Dzoni Wajsmiler","author_link":"https:\/\/www.zapleti.si\/kosovarjevi\/blog\/author\/d238e8af61227a97\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Look Up. 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