A few weeks ago a North Carolina woman posted “The Happy Song makes me so HAPPY,” on her Facebook page while driving. 

She was killed seconds later.

In early April in Abington Township, PA a 20-year old man was struck and killed by a local commuter train while texting and walking along the tracks.

According to the Deputy Police Chief:  He “never once flinched, turned around, looked at him or indicated that he knew the train was coming”.

The engineer blew the horn and locked the breaks but even those sounds didn’t get the victim to look up.

These are not isolated stories.  We hear them all the time in the digital age.

Texting is a tool not a way of life.

We should focus on what’s happening around us and the people we care about the most with the same intensity that we focus on our phones to send text messages.

Texting can teach us how to have balance in our lives.

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