It’s sad. Few few people nowadays can seem to just sit quietly and reflect, without having a little glowing screen to entertain them.
I can sit on the porch for hours and just “be”. My daughter can, as well. My ex-wife...forget it...always needed a distraction.
Not much more depressing than having a big family get-together, and 70% of the people are looking at their phones while at the table, and very little actual conversation is happening.
I will not sit at a table with someone using their phone. It is downright rude. If it happens, and my wife knows it, I will get up and leave.
We just got home from the beach. We had a mini storm while we were there. Loved the crashing of the waves and the howling winds. We were in an end condo. The space between our building and the next was like a wind tunnel. Sometimes the waves would come to shore like ballerinas tip toeing to shore and other times they were like ferocious lions crashing to shore. Very interesting. We had a wrap around balcony and we could not go on the end part because the wind was so strong. We loved watching the beach action.