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Personality Disorder

• B: Put away your cellphone.
• N: What the hell? Why?
• B: Because I know you. And in about 30 seconds you're going to start checking for emails, text messages, and facebook updates. And God forbid you start playing a game with Angry Birds, Fruit Ninjas, or Plants vs Zombies while I'm with you.
• N: What if I get an important call?
• B: Then someone will have to die.
• N: Okay, fine. Make a big deal out of nothing.
• B: Dude, look.. Can a person get a good night's sleep if they're constantly interrupted the whole night?
• N: Of course not.
• B: Then how do you expect to have a good conversation with me when you're constantly distracted? Or worse, how do you expect to get a good day's work when you open yourself up to interruption?
• N: Hmm.
• B: I hate to sound old-fashioned, but a little bit of silence isn't a bad thing. And having a conversation with one person at a time sure as hell doesn't mean you're boring. If anything, it keeps you from having a shallow personality.
• N: What do you mean?
• B: Well, when you're not distracted, you have no choice but to focus deeply on whatever's in front of you, right?
• N: Right.
• B: And if you've got something boring or annoying in front of you — and you have no way of distracting yourself — you're basically forced to make that situation interesting. It's kind of strange, but when you have nothing to entertain you, you're forced to BECOME entertaining. Otherwise, you go crazy.
• N: Weird.. But that actually makes sense.
• B: Consider Tumblr. You ever notice how most people don't even blog?
• N: Yea. All they do is REBLOG. It's kind of annoying.
• B: Well, the reason they reblog is because deep down, they know they're not interesting. They have nothing ORIGINAL to say. They have no videos they've made. No artwork worth sharing. So instead of typing up their OWN words, they just copy and paste some random quote that even they don't bother following.
• N: Hahaha. That's true.
• B: Don't get me wrong, I enjoy photos of cute animals, Michael Cera prancing, and random people 'Failing' just as much as the next guy, but if that's all I have to contribute to society, that doesn't say much about my OWN personality.
• N: Man.. how the hell did we get from cellphones to this?
• B: Because when you're not distracted, something as small as a "cellphone" can change how you view the entire world.