Isolation: A Short Story
When reflecting on the day and then writing this story, I discovered that although we were together as a family for the entire day, at the same time, we were separated by an invisible wall created by technology that took us away from being in the moment with each other. This was the exact message my dad was trying to get across in his hour-long lecture. I won’t give the exact play by play of his entire lecture, but it started out as him telling me how “bratty” and selfish I had been toward the family due to my isolation with my phone. Here, I was leaning up against the counter with my fists in tight in a ball trying to hold back my anger as I listened to my dad go on and on about how great of a brother I have and how I don’t appreciate him