John was sitting atop of the cab on his boat just a few hundred yards from the Kaanapali shoreline. There was a crowd of onlookers that had gathered looking directly at him, or so he thought.
Unbeknownst to John the sun was setting behind him causing the most beautiful sunset the crowd had ever seen. A spectrum of colored, vertical shafts of light including purple, red, yellow and orange were exploding from the horizon shooting skyward. Not only that but a humpback whale had been breaching in the background and now her and her calf had nuzzled up to the back of his boat. It seemed as if all John had to do was turn around and reach out and he could have touched them…… but he had no clue they were even there.
So what was so distracting to cause John to miss such an extraordinary experience that hundreds of others had observed?
John was busy, too busy, so busy he wasn’t even aware of his surroundings.
So what was it that John was doing to cause him to trade it for what was a once in a lifetime experience?
He was texting. Yes, John was texting on his phone.
Unbeknownst to John the sun was setting behind him causing the most beautiful sunset the crowd had ever seen. A spectrum of colored, vertical shafts of light including purple, red, yellow and orange were exploding from the horizon shooting skyward. Not only that but a humpback whale had been breaching in the background and now her and her calf had nuzzled up to the back of his boat. It seemed as if all John had to do was turn around and reach out and he could have touched them…… but he had no clue they were even there.
So what was so distracting to cause John to miss such an extraordinary experience that hundreds of others had observed?
John was busy, too busy, so busy he wasn’t even aware of his surroundings.
So what was it that John was doing to cause him to trade it for what was a once in a lifetime experience?
He was texting. Yes, John was texting on his phone.
