No, you hang up...

How do I start this? All these thoughts and emotions just swell up and well, I just have to put this one down...

Ok so I'm sitting up trying to design a layout plan for some secondary school year book and I get a phone call from a friend....let's just call her "shaniqua" (always wanted a shaniqua in my life...) And I love her voice. She's a great friend and solidly taken but when we talk I always seem to smile. After our random discussion I get back to work, all vim and vigour, then half way through deciding whether Gammond's a good font for the title blocks I realise we're all missing out on the good stuff.

Remember those days when phone calls were all we had? When you'd spend all night hiding in the guest room so your folks or nosey siblings wouldn't catch you talking to some love interest? When you could hear the smile in her voice or the true want as he says "I missed you today"... I know I remember...and I know I miss it. We would all forget about the consequences and the impending doom which was our folks finding the phone bill, just to say "no, you hang up" 20 times and still find our way back into a conversation.

These days we have marvellous technology, which I love but I miss the Golden years. The days when you'd spend hours talking to someone you've never met but feel such a strong connection just because they've seen "The empire strikes back" 5 times or how you'd call a girl up during the day and five of her friends would take turns talking to the infamous phone guy. Nowadays we text, and I'll avoid slander towards the bb, as that would be the highest form of hypocrisy on my part. But how far off from human contact is the blackberry message? Here's an example, guy likes girl, guy gets pin, guy sends msg: "hi, I got your pin from shaniqua. Its Jite, her friend from the other night. Just wanted to say hi." Then he waits 5hours and gets: "hiya". Its infuriating! Fair enough, bbm is not really the way to go if you want to meet the girl of your dreams but conversations used to be a lot more meaningful. With emotions in your voice and intentions made clear through intonation but I'm drifting from my point again.

Technology is great, video chatting with your babe who's in spain or sending a prose-ful love letter through gmail but asides from getting on a plane and turning up with roses at her hotel, nothing says how you feel better than your voice.

It erks me when I hang up and just by instinct check my credit, but that's how we roll these days. Many people still call a lot and smile without emoicons but things sure have changed. Or wait...maybe its just me...

The voice at the other end of the line is important. I'm not talking about the business transaction you've been hustling (course thats important as well) I'm talking about that voice that makes your mind work in full HD... The voice that makes you snuggle up in bed cause it just hits all your high notes. You know the voice I'm takling about. Let's not get all caught up and forget, cause I distinctly remember the day my Dad walked in on me at 3am under the dinning room table on the phone and smiled. He knew what was up... He'd been there himself.

You know what? I've made my point I think, so I'm gonna stop typing and pick up the phone....let my voice get back to familiar ground.