Button It (Madly Yours)

To be at peace to be at one

Absorb your inner place

Engage and hold serenity

Let your spirit interlace

Let all your tensions scatter

Let obligations be elsewhere

Enjoy the prone to be alone

Allow yourself to be in there

In this time of mass intrusions

Jolting buzzing shrill ringtones

As messages have gathered moss

To throttle rolling stones

Fight your fear of turning off
Far away from overlapping

Circumvent the probe intent

The sound of one hand tapping

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“We’ve all been conditioned to be alert for notifications from our phones,” said Dr. Rosen. “We’re like Pavlov’s dogs in a way. You see people pull out their phones and two minutes later do it again even though nothing has taken place. That’s driven by reflex action as well as by anxiety to make sure we haven’t missed out on anything. It’s all part of the FOMO [Fear Of Missing Out] reaction.”

Link to article by: Evan Dashevsky | @haldash Staff Writer, TechHive