#33 - Dropped Calls Are Life Changing

“I can hear you, can you hear me?” This is the sound of modern frustration. “Hello? I’m here, are you there?” Dumb question, right? I mean, yes, they’re obviously still there, having not spontaneously combusted into a pile of ash, or vaporized into a pool of bong water. And you’re still actually in the same place you were standing, sitting, driving through a tunnel, watching television, eating dinner in a restaurant, etc., with the cellphone in your hand when it went silent. You’re still in the physical form wherever that was before the line blipped out into a black hole of nothingness leaving you stranded and abandoned in an existence with no contact to society, completely devoid of a healthy sense of self. Right? If there’s no one there to capture the event, then it may as well have never happened. Because there’s no value to anything you do if you do not have someone, or something, there to validate it. To give it meaning.

They say we need companionship to survive as much as we need food and water.

Think about the dude who saw the double rainbow. He was alone. But he had his cellphone which had a camera, a conduit with which to share the inspirational moments of pure emotion. Without that device no other soul would have been impacted by what he saw, what he was able to share. And because of this easily portable, compact partner, his experience became one of the most watched YouTube videos in history, spreading joy and visual magnificence to the masses, culminating into millions of giggles. And a few tears for those who felt his pain.

Cannabis is a good companion. It will never drop your call.