My Anti Cell Phone RANT (you have been warned)

Ranting: Just a warning.
Cell Phones
   I wish they didn't exist. I remember a time when there were no cell phones. If you wanted to talk to someone you dialed the phone and talked to them. Most people didn't have answering machines even. It was pretty simple really. You just called and talked to someone when you needed to. If the line was busy ~ you just called back later. I would spend hours talking on the phone talking to friends in highschool. I remember doing homework over the phone together and just talking endlessly. Texting didn't exist either and either did the Internet (I probably first really cared about the Internet when I was sixteen). Video games were the 'evil' of my day and they consisted of evil mushrooms and a little man jumping over things. I sound SO old and maybe I am. It seems like it was just yesterday though. My grandmother lived in a time where she had no electricity and got water from a well. She had no indoor plumbing. When she passed away cell phones and internet had taken over everywhere. I can't imagine how it must have been to see the extreme changes that took place during her life time.
  Honestly times have changed so much. I remember when I first encountered texting in the PHILIPPINES. Everyone texted because it was so much cheaper than talking. I thought that it was something that wouldn't really become popular here but of course it did. We were just a bit behind the times. I value eye contact now. When I was learning about attachment I was taught the value of eye contact and how soft smiling eyes share something beautiful with someone else. I love hearing people's voices over the phone. When I text pictures to someone I am thankful how easy it is.
 However I hate that cell phones cause cancer. I have had it. It sucks. I hate that cell phones isolate people but yet feed them a sense of having some sort of relationship with someone that they dont really have. I hate that people are addicted to cell phones and that work is never done because people expect my husband to respond all night to texts that have to do with work. He comes home and his face is glued to the phone. I hate that the internet is right at your fingertips all the time. I hate that my baby knows how to use Suri at fifteen months of age and is obsessed with buttons and trying to text. I hate that my oldest is begging for a cell phone and that many children are aged ten or even younger and have cell phones. I am just ranting. That is all. It has been a long day. I have wished to actually talk to someone. I have wished to hear someones voice and see their kind eyes. I hate seeing children walking down the street staring at their phones. I hate seeing mothers on the play ground staring at their phones as their children play. I hate seeing people lost in their own little worlds missing the real world around them. The addiction is intense. The fact that a phone is a life line to people is crazy. It really is. People are life lines not phones. Relationships are life lines. Not phones. Will children really know how to have relationships? Will they actually understand compassion and how to relate to people. Will they care about the community around them? Or will they just bury themselves deeper into worlds that are not real but that they feel are everything to them displayed on a small screen....I hope I can teach my children the truth. I had a cell phone for a little while. I loved texting my sister every day and my friends sometimes. I felt though like it was sucking me in. I wanted to feel connected so I was texting more often and sending more pictures. I tried turning it off and keeping it in a drawer but still it called me. So I got rid of it a couple days ago and now I am cell phone less. I am glad to be free.That is all. Glad to be free.