Later that night, I went out to go get ramen with my roommate and neighbor. It was during this adventure I experienced disconnect and truly waiting. I experienced the disconnect as I was the only one without my phone. While I was waiting for the muni, and for my dinner, I couldn't pull out my phone and check up on social media. My friends on the other hand, could, so I spent moments by myself as they immersed themselves in the digital world.

I connected this with an article I read, “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk” as I sat with my friends at the restaurant. Although we did talk, there were moments of silence in which they checked their phones. In the article I mentioned above, the author Turkle discusses how the use of phones disconnects us, especially in a social setting like a dinner. I felt this disconnect, and it made me appreciate how my Dad would ban phones from the dinner table. In times like these, when we should be enjoying each other’s company, we instead turn to our phones.

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