那天下午兩點左右,我坐在一家麵館裏,點了一碗我愛吃的麵。外麵太陽大得都能把人烤熟,我穿著長裙,被悶得想跳“脫衣舞”。
不一會兒,有兩位男子推門而入,看起來像是一父一子。父親頭發花白,但卻茂盛,預估五十歲左右,兒子穿著短袖T恤,上麵印有英文字母,高高瘦瘦,還有點駝背。兩人點完餐後,坐在我旁邊。
隻見這二十多歲的年輕小夥子掏出手機,便聚精會神,眼睛一眨不眨地盯著它。他翹著二郎腿,兩條杠子似的腿一搖一搖,眼鏡掛在鼻梁上,手擱在桌子上,麵對著他的父親,一言不發。
父親則四周張望,企圖尋找供他閱讀,消遣的信息,他的動作顯得有點尷尬。接著,他似乎找到了,然後轉過頭來對他兒子說:“你看她們還有菠菜麵賣呢!”
“是啊!”兒子回答,眼睛依然盯著手機。
見兒子聊天情緒不高漲,父親最終也放棄了,沉默了一小會兒,便也拿起自己的那部舊手機,佯裝在查看重要的信息。
我坐在一旁,心裏想,這爸爸應該很想跟兒子說會兒話吧,可兒子卻怎麽也不肯丟下手機,陪老爸嘮會兒嗑。聽起來他們像是北方城市來的。
這時,麵來了,小夥子終於把手機放下,父子兩呼呼地吃起麵來。麵館老板娘走過來招呼了一聲:“麵拌均勻吃哈!”
“我們就是陝西人!”父親回到。意思是他們知道吃麵的規矩。
老板娘靠門口的位置坐下歇息,聽他說他們也是陝西人,便和他說起了家鄉話,聊了兩句。
這家麵館,我幾乎每天光臨,和老板娘也熟了,時不時也會聊上幾句。
她隨即也掏出手機,認真地玩起來。然後門口來了一位小哥,給她送來了一個披薩,她一隻手拿披薩,另一隻手拿手機,整個麵館沉浸在手機的沉默裏。
父子倆以北方人的速度把麵給消滅了,小夥子依然保持著同樣的姿勢,父親則起身掏錢買單,這時小夥子才趕緊放下手機,搶著買單。
買完單後,他們就離開了。
老板娘隔著桌子對我說:“來嚐塊披薩吧,剛剛有客人在不好意思。”
我盛情難卻,移步跟她同坐,嚐了嚐那披薩。
“味道還可以哦!”我說
“還行吧!想了一個多月,終於吃到了。”
她邊回答邊看著手機,我本想再多聊幾句,但又不願打擾她便住口了。但坐在她對麵,又覺尷尬,於是匆匆吞下這塊披薩和麵,付款走人。
我多麽期待她能放下手機,看著我回答,我想那父親也是這麽想的吧。
你是否也讓手機拉開了你和他,或她的距離而不自知呢?
Thanks for your comment! Moatcity
I agree! I had the same problem before, in fact, I still do. I tried to stop myself using phone as much, I muted my phone and told my parents to stop calling me on wechat, ect. However, it didn't stop me browsing and I realize that is absolute terrible, because it took away part of my live, but of course, I was willing to let it happen.
So it's very important that people can become aware of this issue and started to think about the effect it might bring to us. Someday,some people might change, even if it's in a small way.
The device + internet: the tech companies figured out a way to utilize the human psychological deficiencies - it would take tremendous amount of self discipline to detach from them, how many average Joe and Jane's have the self-discipline?
We are all become passive consumers, really similar to flipping TV channels by couch potatoes.
Really sad, yet, there won't be any turning back, unless you go to live in Amish community.
Well, I will be the change today, will be done surfing the net after this post. See you all tonight.