Hands free Happiness
Poem: Hands free Happiness
If you’re really that happy
and you really know it
and you really have to show it
then I suppose you have to clap your hands
But that won’t really work as
you’re always with your phone in one hand
and a cafe latte in the other
Online screen instructions beaming on to your face
There’s nowhere to go
There’s no real hiding place
Happiness is achieved if you do this the most
Remember to
Pout, tilt head
Pose and post
Review: Hands free Happiness
Oh how I’m laughing out loud… with dollops of irony!
Is this modern-day happiness?
Oh dear, I want to scream if this is indeed common practice now-a-days…
Which let’s face it, it is isn’t it?
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggh!
Ok, I didn’t actually scream out loud as it’s first suggested. That would be a waste of energy and totally pointless. Horses bolted, Ships having sailed and all that! You get the gist? In a nutshell, there’s no going back.
Do a thing, any ‘thing’, make sure you pose with a forced smile and post it on an anti-social media platform. Happiness eh?
A coffee in one hand and mobile phone in the other. Always ‘on the go’ with cultural instructions from that handy little device of entanglement. It’s more than just a ‘hello, how are you, lets meet up’ telephonic device. It’s a tool of manipulation is it not?
Using ‘the phone’ now a days is more than an innocent evolution of communication from an Alpine yodel or using a piece of string and two tin cans.
With the opening stanza I like how the poet refers to the well-known nursery rhyme, “If you’re happy and you know it…” There’s the clapping of hands… and repeat. The stomping of feet…and repeat. Then there’s the shouting of hurray… Innocent times! It’s cute, cute, cute. I can’t help but smile warmly from ear to ear at that.
However, I then learn of the words used in the poet’s version of this and it makes me frown without a chance of it turning upside down!
The pouting, the tilting of the head, the posing and posting appears to be what the poet has observed and wants to comment on. I wouldn’t waste my time as that’s just how things are aren’t they? It’s the cultural behaviour of this 21st century era. It’s the done thing. I’m sure the poet is not the only one to have seen this digitised sheep-like, fluttering arachnid eyelid, narcissistic behaviour. Is this how everyone is or how most behave? Yikes and yuck if that indeed is the case?. Surely not all do?
Hold on, slow down, relax a bit I’m telling myself. Don’t be jumping to any conclusions here. It’s just a bit of fun with a tool of communication. No big deal right?
I think it’s humorous how the simple action of clapping hands is unable to be done because the individual is too busy playing the part of being fashionably busy and ‘instagramable’ Not forgetting of course being ‘On the go’ serves to ‘inspire’ others, and to be an ‘influencer’ of some sort too no doubt. Oh, how I’m yawning and laughing at this. Mind you, they’ve probably got an app for the clapping of hands and the round of applause they seek from posting that pose. They’d probably ask their digital skivvy, Siri or Alexa to assist with that. Problem solved.
If they are indeed that busy and important, they’d be getting on and doing those things of; the working, spending time connecting with people and doing important things.
And not making ‘a song and dance’ about it to the tune of ‘I can’t get no satisfaction, I’ve bought into this way of a life distraction’
Online screen instructions yes, of buy this, and buy into that. Follow him, follow her…Pay monthlies here and there.
No real hiding place? But would they want one? Don’t they just ‘love’ this way of life? It’s too late, this contrived culture is here and will continue.
In the meantime I think I’d like to look up and sign up to Tyrolean ‘Alpine yodeling’ classes. That’ll be my version of hands free happiness,
Yodel-Ay-Hee-Hoo!