We've Lost That Loving Feeling

Remember the song, "You've lost that loving feeling", by the Righteous Brothers?  We as Americans are loosing that loving feeling.  We long for the days  that people look each other in the eye.  We miss the days that boys and girls went on old fashion dates.  Drive-ins were normal, gas was cheap, and the community kids walked to school.  Something is not right about today's society.  We can't put our finger on it but the feeling is eerie. 

 

Everywhere we go someone is on a electronic device.  Everywhere.  We can stand in a line of fifteen people and over half of the people will be staring in the device in there hand.  Thirty years ago, conversation would be going on.  Men would be shaking hands.  Calm and order was had by all.  Electronic devices meant a radio with one knob.  Now, cars sell for the gadgets they have in them.  We don't get a chance to catch our thoughts.  We don't get to see people before we see the smart phone. Children as young as seven are walking around with cell phones in their hands.  Really?  What does a seven year old need with a cell phone?  High school students can't focus because they are focused on that gadget in their pockets.  Remember your high school days that your parents called the office and requested your attention.  Now, it's the parents texting their kids all the while knowing that kid is in school and is suppose to be focused on something else. Remember gym, when kids played, went outdoors and kicked a ball?  Now a day kids reach for their cell phones and go into a trance.  

 

Has these gadgets been the cause of mental illness?  Some people will not function if they do not have their phone in their hands.  Some people have to be on them at all times.  Some people are having conversations with themselves.  Ever seen a parent on the phone, talking loud, smoking a cigarette, while pulling on their babies to come on?  It makes you want to holla.  Two people are on a date and both are on their phones for the entire date?  We are riding in a car and someone can never find a moment to turn off the music?

 

When the Righteous Brothers wrote and sang that song in 1964 they were right on.  We long for the days of this era.  We long for that loving feeling.