justification.

What has made man the top of the food chain? We aren't the fastest, nor the strongest, and we definatley aren't the cleverest. We may have evolved but when you look at the grander scale of things we are still millenia behind. We have the thumb and fingers, but look what we have used them for, to weild weapons and to make tools making our lives easier but to what end? We have lost the ability to advance in ourselves, opting to let technology to do the work for us. We entertain ourselves through electronic gadgetry, I will admit I am more guilty then most for this, I mean I am here right now typing on a laptop rather than spending time with my friends or family. Although I do understand the need for technology, but I see no progress in it, in fact all I see is the opposite, man created the remote control so we didn't have to get up and change the channel on something meaning it is now possible to sit on the sofa all day, and I do mean all day, with the addition of fast food at home we don't even spend time in the kitchen cooking with friends but instead we just stick something in the microwave and turn the dail, or push in the desired time in on the keypad, and on the rare occurance that we do actually decide to stay and wait for the food to "cook" we end up staring at the timer as if we don't trust it to count the seconds itself. How is it food? Gone are the days when you would get a family cooking a meal together, its a travesty.
We shout to each other when we are mearly a few metres away from each other, and why?, because its just to much effort to shuffle our little feet a few inches at a time until we are withing talking distance or even worse when they ring someone up who is a couple of rooms away. I hate to say it but in my house we do have a phone system that doubles as an intercom and I have been known to use it, only to call up to the top floor (we live in a 3/4 storey house(I say 3/4 as some people count a cellar as a floor) and when you have just come down from the top floor and need to go straight back up it is a little disheartening.
And now on to that wonderful invention, television, we have all these methods to save time during the day so we can spend time together doing nothing more then look at the ol' magic picture box in the corner. No longer do we have a pleasant conversation about how ones day has been, we have reached the point were you are lucky to even get a thank-you between mouthfuls of half digested food.
I have this friend (no I don't use this as a way of telling my story without people thinking its me I do really have a friend!) she has been my rock and my hardplace for about a year or so now and she has all this time on her hands as her bloke has found a "mistress", if she reads this I am sure she will know who I mean without naming names. I will not lie to you though she is such a beautiful person physically that most of my male friends who have seen her have thought about sex with her, me included! But I degress form my point, she is in a happy relationship but she somehow always makes time for me, you may think its a sign of a good friend but Its more then that, oh and damn she has an incredible set of pins.
So all in all I want you to think about the fact that although I am a hypocrite for ranting whilst using a laptop I just wonder if any of my few readers have found that they are dropping crumbs on their keyboard when they read this and if so why are you not eating at a table with the ones you hold nearest and dearest?