1 00:00:00,806 --> 00:00:03,356 I have four hundred and twenty-two friends 2 00:00:03,367 --> 00:00:05,470 yet I'm lonely. 3 00:00:05,487 --> 00:00:07,621 I speak to all of them every day, yet 4 00:00:07,621 --> 00:00:09,230 none of them really know me. 5 00:00:09,234 --> 00:00:11,594 LOOK UP 6 00:00:12,022 --> 00:00:14,666 The problem I have sits in the spaces between 7 00:00:14,666 --> 00:00:17,031 looking into their eyes or at a name on a screen. 8 00:00:17,031 --> 00:00:19,034 I took a step back and opened my eyes 9 00:00:19,034 --> 00:00:20,554 I looked around and realised 10 00:00:20,554 --> 00:00:23,290 that this media we call social is anything but. 11 00:00:23,313 --> 00:00:25,173 When we open our computers 12 00:00:25,173 --> 00:00:26,998 and it's our doors we shut. 13 00:00:26,998 --> 00:00:30,724 All this technology we have is just an illusion. 14 00:00:30,724 --> 00:00:33,369 Community, companionship, a sense of inclusion 15 00:00:33,369 --> 00:00:36,574 yet when you step away from this device of delusion, 16 00:00:36,574 --> 00:00:40,293 you awaken to see a world of confusion. 17 00:00:40,293 --> 00:00:43,111 A world where we're slaves to technology we mastered 18 00:00:43,111 --> 00:00:46,274 where information gets sold by some rich greedy bastard. 19 00:00:46,274 --> 00:00:49,090 A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion 20 00:00:49,090 --> 00:00:52,876 where we all share best bits but leave out the emotion. 21 00:00:52,876 --> 00:00:57,277 We're uttermost happy within experience we share 22 00:00:57,277 --> 00:00:59,824 but is it the same if no one is there? 23 00:00:59,824 --> 00:01:02,868 Be there for your friends and they'll be there, too. 24 00:01:02,868 --> 00:01:05,533 But no one will be if a group message will do. 25 00:01:05,533 --> 00:01:09,318 We edit and exagerrate, crave adulation 26 00:01:09,318 --> 00:01:12,029 We pretend not to notice the social isolation. 27 00:01:12,029 --> 00:01:15,034 We put words into order until our lives are glistening. 28 00:01:15,034 --> 00:01:17,299 We don't even know if anyone is listening. 29 00:01:17,299 --> 00:01:19,998 Being alone isn't a problem, let me just emphasize 30 00:01:19,998 --> 00:01:22,206 if you read a book, paint a picture or do some exercise, 31 00:01:22,206 --> 00:01:23,901 you're being productive and present, 32 00:01:23,901 --> 00:01:25,406 not reserved and recluse. 33 00:01:25,406 --> 00:01:26,782 You're being awake and attentive 34 00:01:26,782 --> 00:01:28,471 and putting your time to good use. 35 00:01:28,471 --> 00:01:30,960 So when you're in public and you start to feel alone, 36 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,293 put your hands behind your head, step away from the phone. 37 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:35,900 You don't need to ?? or wipe your contact list. 38 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:38,710 just talk to one another. Learn to coexist. 39 00:01:38,710 --> 00:01:41,589 I can't stand to hear the silence of a busy commuter train 40 00:01:41,589 --> 00:01:44,042 where no one wants to talk for the fear of looking insane. 41 00:01:44,042 --> 00:01:45,982 We're becoming unsocial, 42 00:01:45,982 --> 00:01:48,431 we're no longer satisfied to engage with one another 43 00:01:48,431 --> 00:01:50,880 and looking into someone's eyes. 44 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,330 We're surrounded by children, who since they were born, 45 00:01:53,330 --> 00:01:55,772 have watched us living like robots and think it is norm. 46 00:01:55,772 --> 00:01:57,949 It's not very likely you make world's greatest dad 47 00:01:57,949 --> 00:02:00,946 if you can't entertain a child without using an iPad. 48 00:02:00,950 --> 00:02:03,219 When I was a child I'd never be home. 49 00:02:03,219 --> 00:02:05,311 Be out with my friends on our bikes ??? 50 00:02:05,311 --> 00:02:07,620 I had holes in my trainers and graize up my knees 51 00:02:07,620 --> 00:02:09,755 building our club house up in the trees. 52 00:02:09,755 --> 00:02:12,298 Now the park's so quiet it gives me a chill. 53 00:02:12,298 --> 00:02:15,066 See no children outside and the swings hanging still. 54 00:02:15,066 --> 00:02:18,958 There is no skipping, no hop-scotch, no ? and no steeple. 55 00:02:18,958 --> 00:02:20,973 We're generation of idiots: 56 00:02:20,973 --> 00:02:24,109 Smartphones and dumb people. 57 00:02:26,145 --> 00:02:29,577 So look up from your phone, shut down display. 58 00:02:29,577 --> 00:02:32,441 Take in your surroundings, make the most of today. 59 00:02:32,441 --> 00:02:35,133 Just one real connection - - it's all it can take 60 00:02:35,133 --> 00:02:38,779 to show you the difference that being there can make. 61 00:02:40,738 --> 00:02:43,321 Be there in the moment that she gives you the look 62 00:02:43,321 --> 00:02:45,816 that you remember forever as when love overtook. 63 00:02:45,816 --> 00:02:48,737 Time she first hold your hand, or first kiss your lips, 64 00:02:48,737 --> 00:02:51,384 the time you first disagree but still love her to bits. 65 00:02:51,384 --> 00:02:54,521 The time you don't have to tell hundreds of what you've just done, 66 00:02:54,521 --> 00:02:57,528 because you want to share this moment with just this one. 67 00:02:57,528 --> 00:03:00,304 The time you sell your computer so you can buy a ring 68 00:03:00,304 --> 00:03:03,228 for the girl of your dreams who's now the real thing. 69 00:03:03,228 --> 00:03:06,273 The time you want to start a family and the moment when 70 00:03:06,273 --> 00:03:09,580 you first hold your little girl and get to fall in love again. 71 00:03:09,580 --> 00:03:13,504 The time she keeps you up at night and all you want is rest 72 00:03:13,504 --> 00:03:17,532 and the time you wipe away the tears as your baby flees the nest. 73 00:03:17,532 --> 00:03:21,843 The time your baby girl returns with a boy for you to hold 74 00:03:21,843 --> 00:03:25,570 and the time he calls you grand-dad and makes you feel real old. 75 00:03:25,570 --> 00:03:30,292 The time you're taking all you've made just by giving life attention 76 00:03:30,292 --> 00:03:32,153 and how you're glad you didn't waste it 77 00:03:32,153 --> 00:03:35,144 by looking down to some invention. 78 00:03:35,144 --> 00:03:37,395 The time you hold your wife's hand, 79 00:03:37,395 --> 00:03:38,766 sit down beside her bed, 80 00:03:38,766 --> 00:03:41,898 You tell her that you love her, lay a kiss upon her head. 81 00:03:41,898 --> 00:03:45,971 She then whispers to you quietly as her heart gives a final beat 82 00:03:45,971 --> 00:03:50,117 that she is lucky she got stopped by that lost boy in the street. 83 00:03:54,518 --> 00:03:56,771 But none of these times ever happened. 84 00:03:56,771 --> 00:03:59,524 You never had any of this. 85 00:03:59,524 --> 00:04:01,294 When you're too busy looking down, 86 00:04:01,294 --> 00:04:05,331 you don't see the chances you miss. 87 00:04:07,324 --> 00:04:11,224 So look up from your phone, shut down those displays. 88 00:04:11,224 --> 00:04:13,988 We have a finite existence, a set number of days. 89 00:04:13,988 --> 00:04:16,286 Don't waste your life getting caught in the net 90 00:04:16,286 --> 00:04:18,991 as when the end comes, nothing's worse than regret. 91 00:04:18,991 --> 00:04:21,546 I'm guilty too of being part of this machine, 92 00:04:21,546 --> 00:04:24,046 This digital world we're heard but not seen, 93 00:04:24,046 --> 00:04:26,306 where we type as we talk and we read as we chat, 94 00:04:26,306 --> 00:04:30,049 where we spend hours together without making eye contact. 95 00:04:30,049 --> 00:04:33,103 Just don't give in to the life where you follow the hype. 96 00:04:33,103 --> 00:04:34,585 Give people your love. 97 00:04:34,585 --> 00:04:36,127 Don't give them your like. 98 00:04:36,127 --> 00:04:38,510 Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined. 99 00:04:38,510 --> 00:04:41,964 Go out into the world and leave distractions behind. 100 00:04:45,312 --> 00:04:48,329 Look up from your phone, shut down that display. 101 00:04:48,329 --> 00:04:51,386 Stop watching this video and live life the real way.