Mercury

I've been living on my own for years now and although I'm not estranged from my brothers and sisters, we all live pretty seperate lives. Now my younger ones are getting their own cell phones so we text message eachother to stay in touch. They're always telling me their in class while they're texing, too. That makes me feel old cause even though we had cell phones when I was in high school, texting in class wasn't really something we did.

Then of course there's my mom and dad, my uncle and now even my grandma is learning to text. It's opened a lot of doors of controlled communication that I like a lot. But also... it's kind of weird that they have that sort of access to me.

The traditional routes of communication: knocking on my bedroom door and leaving notes on the counter were much more quaint.

Technology, the great equilizer, I guess?