Look up a little more.
These days, he spends so much time looking down – his head is bowed, but not in prayer, he holds an alter in his hand, the god he worships speaks to him in 140 characters, hashtags, and memes, using click-bait to reel him in.
Look up a little more.
His friends consist of profile pics and avatars, voices speaking in emoji and acronym in a silent cacophony, deafening him to the sound of life beyond the screen.
Look up a little more.
He types LOL without even smiling, he lives for likes and filters himself for others to envy while his life passes by, he feels lost and alone in a crowd when wifi is weak, he doesn’t know he’s alone until the battery dies and he looks up, surrounded by strangers he used to know.
He needs to look up a little more.
This weeks word was UP, thanks to Ivy at Uncharted Blog for keeping us writing every week!
The Qwiet Muse 
What a sad truth. Wonderful six!
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What a timely, topical story and so well written. A great six with a fabulous message. Someone should stick it up on all thoroughfares and billboards. Loved this endlessly.
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Lovely read
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Oh yeah. Too true and too scary.
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Amen. Too sad and too true. Great six.
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What a great realistic story.
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Too true for so many. Well told!
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what a good Six!
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Thank you, kind sir 😊
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A tale of our times and a great take on up!
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Good advice!
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So good! So guilty!
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Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
Six sentences and a world of meaning from The Muse.
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So true! Maybe I should keep this handy in case I get tempted to buy a smart phone.
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Smart phones make some folks a little dumber – I’m confident that would not be the case with you, friend 😊
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Thank you. Mostly, I just don’t feel a need to be instantly interruptible any time, any where. Been there, done that.
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Same for me, too much distraction from the world around me. Unless I’m writing or researching, my time spent on the wacky world of the web is fairly short . . . unless I get on Pinterest 😊
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