After
work, I was sitting in the park with my cousin. While she was eating her
dessert, I was surfing the net. I
was looking at the stock-market
figures, reading the newspaper, consulting my personal organizer... I
was deeply absorbed in what I was
doing. When I finished, my cousin smiled at me and said:
– Did
you know what you’ve just missed?
– What?
– said I with tired voice.
– A good-looking young man, well-groomed and smartly-dressed,
greeted us. He seemed to be a friend of yours.
– Wow,
really?
– And
you were so rude to him!
– Who?
Me?!
– Yes,
you didn’t pay any attention to him. But he said, he understands that your
attention is rapt. He is like you.
He alleviates boredom with video
games. That’s a great way to stimulate
your imagination. And that’s the modern way of letting off steam and escaping the humdrum
reality.
– What?!
But I didn’t play any games. What did that guy look like?
– You
know, I have difficulty remembering faces…
– I see.
I shouldn’t be so oblivious to the
world around me. I’ll take notice from now on. You never know, who you are going
to miss out.
– Yeah,
right. But before everything else, you miss the many beautiful things around you
like the beautiful landscape, the lovely Me sitting next to you
:-)
– Sorry,
sweetheart…You know, I love you!
– I
know, but I don’t feel it. When I’m with you, you are always working on the computer,
surfing the net, chatting…
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