Blog #5

For this blog I chose to make up my own character who didn’t have the feed and this characters name is Ralph.

Once Ralph was born, his parents couldn’t afford to have a child so he was put into an orphanage.  Orphans were only able to get the feed if they were adopted before they were too old to have the feed installed.  Unfortunately with the increases in modern technology most people were creating their own children in labs, and there was virtually no couples that were willing to adopt.  So like statistics proved he was never adopted.  This may seem sad, but Ralph was an Optimistic kid with a twinkle in his eye and a pep in his step. 

One of his favorite things to do is go to public places like the mall and people watch.  He sits down at a bench and watches all of the people wawlk past each other without even noticing anyone walking around them.  Even the people they are with they don’t physically talk to each other they all just m-chat.  So many people run into each other because they are so bombarded with advertisements they don’t even watch where they are walking.  Ralphs favorite thing was sitting and thinking about how different of a place the mall was to people who had the feed.  He wondered about this a lot.  Would he enjoy his life more if he had the feed, if he was more like everybody else?  As he was thinking about these questions, he noticed that he had begun walking out of the mall. 

He thought about this while he was walking.  He wondered if his life would be better if he could have any piece of information he wanted when he wanted it.  Would he be happier if he was attached to everyone 24 hours a day?  He wondered if life would be easier if he had the feed.  Is he better off being farther away from the consumerist ideals of everyone else with the feed, or is his lack of the feed keeping him from being an average member of society?

He continued to walk until he ended up at his favorite spot.  It was a beautiful spot up on top of a giant rock.  It overlooked the last bit of land on the east coast that appeared to be untouched by man.  As he sat down at the very top of the rock, he closed his eyes for a split second.  Everything was silent, he felt the wind blow through hair, the cool breeze felt good.  He opened his eyes every tree in the entire valley waved back and forth as if the forest was breathing.  A bird flew in circles dipping and diving as if it was just enjoying the beautiful day.  The world, for brief second appeared to be at peace.  Then all of a sudden an up-car flew right over top of him and scared the birds away.  At that moment, he knew the answers to his questions.