Look up (lyrics)

Look up, a spoken word for online generation.

Written, performed and directed by Gary Turk.

I have 422 friends yet I'm lonely. i speak to all of them everyday yet none of them really know me. the problem i have sits between the space between looking into their eyes or their names on the screen.

I took a step back and open my eyes, I look around and realize the media we called social is anything but.

When we open our computer, it's our doors we shut. All this technology we have is just an illusion.

Community, companionship, a sense of inclusion yet when you step away from this device of delusion, you awaken into see a world of confusion. 

A world where we slaves to the technology we mastered. Where information get sold by rich greedy bastard. A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion. Where we share our best bits but leave out the emotion.

We're at "almost happy" with an experience we share, but is it the same when no one is there?

Be there for our friends and they will be there too. But no one will be if a group message will do.

We edit and exaggerated, crave adulation.

We pretend not to notice the social isolation.

We put our words into order and turn our life into glistening.

We don't even know if anyone is listening!

Being alone isn't a problem, let me just emphasize.

If you read a book, paint a picture or do some exercise, you are being productive and present, not reserved and recluse. You're being awake and attentive and putting your time to good use.

So when you're in the public and you start to feel alone, put your hands behind your head step away from the phone!

You don't need to stare at your menu or your contact list, just talk to one another, learn to co-exist.

I can't stand the silent of a busy commuter train when no one wants to for the fear of looking insane.

We're becoming unsocial and no longer satisfy to engage to one another and look into someone's eyes.

We're surrounded by children who since they were born, have watch us living like robots and think it's norm.

It's not very likely you make world greatest dad  if you can't entertain a child without using an iPad.

When I was a child, I'd never be home. Be out with my friends on our bike we'd roam, wear holes in my trainers and graze up my knees. We build our own clubhouse, high up in the trees.

Now the parks are quiet, it gives me a chill. See no children outside and the swings hanging still.

There's no skipping, no hopscotch; No church and no steeple.

We are a generation of idiots; smartphone and dumb people.

So look up from your phone, shut down the display. Take in the surroundings and make the most of the day.

Just one real connection is all it takes, to show you the difference of  "being there" can make.

Be there in the moment that she gives you the look that you remember forever as when love overtook.

The time when she first hold your hand or first kiss your lips, the time you first disagree but still love her to bits.

The time you don't have to tell hundreds of what you've just done because you want to share this moment with just this one.

The time you sell your computer so you can buy a ring for the girl of your dreams who is now the real thing.

The time you want to start a family and the moment when you first hold your little girl and get to fall in love again.

The time she keeps you up at nights and all you want is rest.

The time you wipe away the tears as your baby girl flees the nest.

The time your baby girl returns with a boy for you to hold and the time he calls you granddad and makes you feel real old.

The time you take i all you've made just by giving life attention and how you glad you didn't waste it by looking down at some invention.

The time you hold your wife's hand, sitting beside her bed, you tell her that  you love her, lay a kiss upon her head.

She then whispers to you quietly as her heart gives a final beats that she's lucky that she got stopped by a lost boy by the street. 

But none of these happened, you never have any of this when you're too busy looking down , you don't see the chances you missed.

So look up from your phone, shut down those displays. We have final act existence, a set number of days. Don't waste your time getting caught on the net. As when the end comes nothing worse than regret.

I'm guilty too, being part of this machine, this digital world, we were heard but not seen. Where we type as we talk, and we read as we chat. Where we spend hours together without making eye contact.

So don't give into life where you follow the hype. Give people your love, don't give the your 'like'.

Disconnect with the need to be heard or defined. Go out to the world, leave instructions behind.

Look up from your phone, shut down the display.

Stop watching this video, live life the real way. 

I watched the youtube video above unintentionally as one of my friend on facebook shared. The video she shared is sub with Madarine. I decided to type out the lyrics as this type of video is what I want to produce. Video that can inspires people to do something with their life, to sparkle some thoughts in people's mind. There may have negative comments about this video produced by Gary Turk but I like it very much. I didn't press the 'like' on facebook or youtube, I just love it sincerely. Unlike people who press like and continue to scroll down the page.

By: Me