I think cellphones have brought a lot of positive change to the world and our lives, but they’ve also brought us endless notifications. Companies invented strings of sounds that are designed to annoy us into paying attention! A ringing phone is the worst. Most people keep their phone on 'silent', but even silent mode isn’t silent! You can hear someone getting a call from a mile away as their phone rattles against everything in their purse. Phones have brought so much convenience, but they require so much attention.

Constantly buzzing, ringing, beeping: begging for attention. And as noise fills our life, we are all too ready to respond. It’s like we wait for the phone to ring. We are right there when the notifications come, and our life becomes one big reaction. Something happens, and we react. We hear the notification; we swipe. We hear about a problem; we’ve got a solution. Someone needs us; we’re ready to answer. We have become reactors.