Staring Is A Thing Of The Past | Eastern NC Now

    Staring is definitely a lost art. There was a time when we all used to stare and think nothing of it. I am sorry to say we don't know how to stare any longer.

    Back in the old days a person would go into a doctor office, a dentist office or a bank and sit down and just stare while waiting to be seen. A lot of the world's bright ideas and significant life changing plans of action occurred while we were doing nothing but staring...

• Beethoven was riding on a horse drawn trolley when it dawned on him that four symphonies were not enough.
• General Eisenhower was sitting in the dentist office when he came up with the idea that Normandy was the place for the Normandy Invasion.
• Alexander the Great, who had always had a feeling that he was a bit cramped, decided that Macedonia needed to be expanded to India.
• Doctor Jonas Salk, who had been working on a cure for Homesickness, was sipping a cappuccino and staring at the wall in front of him in the Higher Grounds Coffee Shop when it dawned on him that a cure for Polio just might a better path to travel.

    Ah yes, the world was doing OK and making slow but steady progress up and until the point where Steve Jobs introduced his new gadget.

    The invention of the Smartphone changed everything. Now we sit and immediately take out our modern pocket electronic wonder toy and...

• We surf the net for earth shaking information or miscellaneous trivia.
• We shop for significant purchases or for things we don't need (it boggles the mind to contemplate how many more pairs of shoes Imelda Marcos could have owned if the Internet had been invented).
• Sometimes we just poke at it to see where it will take us.

    This Blog Posting has now progressed to the point where the Smartfella would probably peck out, "That's Progress". If he did, he would probably have a little more pecking left in him and he would go on to peck out... "Or is it?"

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella