URBAN SPACE

" I NEED MY SPACE ..." IS AN OFT USED CLICHE IN THE CITIES THESE DAYS. WE ARE AFTERALL PROUD URBANITES AND NOT VILLAGE BUMPKINS.
WHAT IS RATHER STRIKINGLY IRONIC IS THAT WHILE THE URBANITE ZEALOUSLY GUARDS HIS/HER NEED FOR' SPACE' THEY BECOME LONELY DUE THIS VERY SPACE WHICH THEY CREATED AND THEN CRAVE FOR COMPANY !

WE SHUT OUT THE MUSIC OF THE MORNINGS AND LISTEN TO IPOD SHUFFLES INSTEAD WHILE JOGGING; WE HATE INTRUSIONS TO OUR PRIVACY BUT CARRY THE BIGGEST INTRUDER OF THEM ALL-THE MOBILE PHONE- EVERYWHERE AS IF OUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. I SEE GROUPS OF TEENAGERS HANGING OUT TOGETHER EACH ONE ENGROSSED IN THEIR OWN MOBILES. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE SPENDING QUALITY TIME WITH THEIR GADGETS THAN WITH EACH OTHER. MY WIFE MET A SCHOOLFRIEND AFTER TWO DECADES WHO GUSHED" LETS CATCH UP ON FACEBOOK". ALL THIS REMINDS ME OF A LADY WHO USED TO TAKE HER HUMONGOUS DOG FOR A WALK DAILY HANGING FOR LIFE AT ONE END OF THE LEASH GETTING DRAGGED THE ENTIRE ROUTE MAKING US WONDER AS TO WHO WAS TAKING WHOM FOR A WALK.I AM SURE THE DOG KNEW, I SUSPECT THE GADGETS KNOW.