Modern day Romance, I’ll set a reminder
Poem: Modern day Romance, I’ll set a reminder
I just did not call to say I love you
My finger slipped and called you by mistake
What’s happened to you?
And when did you turn into such a snowflake?
People don’t call nowadays do they
Where’s the logic in that anyway?
Every day you should know already
of just how much I care
and I mean it from every moment that we part
From the top and to the bottom of my warm and, from a distance, glowing digital heart
Boom boom boom
When you walk into the room it goes
Here it is
and there you go,
this meaningful sentiment will last you for another… year or so
In the meantime, that will do and
I’ll send you a smiley face emoticon or two
You’ll think of me and that will no doubt see you through
Kiss kiss kiss
Romance is here and sure is bliss, bliss, bliss
Review: Modern day Romance, I’ll set a reminder.
What a robotic, insensitive individual. Sounds as though they’ve been hanging around for far too long with his or her A.I buddies.Being called by mistake and not with the intention of actually speaking to the person, yes a person that is on the other end of the line who you are supposed to be romantically involved with and not a soulless invisible digital sound blob. This appears to be a million miles from anything romantic. The person receiving the call is seen by the person making the call as oversensitive with being called a ‘snowflake’ Ouch! – That’s a sign of something that’s not exactly expressing a loving feeling. Does the receiver just accept it and get’s on with it?
This is hardly a ‘picture perfect’ portrait of a new union. They sound ‘comfortable’ in an ‘I’ll tolerate this, I suppose’ kind of a way. It’s part of their modern day script and this is how they’ve adapted and embraced the technology. Or are they being culturally constricted by it?
Using a telephone to make a call is not seen as logic but as a mistake? Oh dear. If that is evolution in progress then it makes me sad and makes me laugh as it appears that the caller has no idea as to why a telephone was invented in the first place! Looks like a few workshops are needed to attend here, entitled: 1) ‘Life and how to live it’ 2)‘To speak and listen to a person, exchange thoughts, ideas and sentiments.’ 3)‘TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS!’ 4)Mouth and ears part one” 5) Mouth and ears part two ‘6) No man or woman is an island, and all that’. (You get the gist.) I think a few of these workshops, if they exist. (I’m sure they do as anything can be googled now a days) It may benefit the caller and in turn, the person who has received the call. They could be saved as a partnership. I’ll leave it there and try not to roll my eyes to the heavens.
Great reflection in the title where it appears that to be successful in the working day, one must be organised with alarm reminders throughout it. How very organised this approach and attitude is, no? Everything from a basic ‘wake up in the morning’ alarm, extending from that and into romance. How erm, very ‘logical’ and ‘loving’
How did we, as a human race, cope before the daily reminders of the beep beep beeps?. Did we look at shadows on rock surfaces? The shadows that form under the eyebags of our ‘significant other’? Measure falling grains of sand from an hourglass?
These all seem a lot calmer and less insistent prompts. The ironic thing is that time still passes by and moves on, however it is measured.
To me alarm bells are ringing loudly signalling ‘get out of this entanglement’ as I cannot call this a relationship! Surely romance in general has not evolved to being like this? Or maybe it has and this is it?
To be fair, the finger slipping could have been an innocent mistake and not a sign of anything more than that. That’s Modern life eh? People accept how things are. Surely it’s not a louder sign of things needing to change. Surely not a revolution? That ship has sailed! I’m sure there’s an emoticon for that. The one where an ostrich is burying it’s head in the coarse sand grains of denial. A cute, mind provoking, little observation.