Youtube Video: Look Up (subtitles)

The very popular clip on Youtube this week: "Look Up"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

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I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely.

I speak to all of them everyday, yet none

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of them really know me.

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The problem I have sits in the spaces between,

looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen.

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I took a step back, and opened my eyes,

I looked around, and then realised

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that this media we call social, is anything

but

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when we open our computers, and it's our doors

we shut.

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All this technology we have, it's just an

illusion,

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of community, companionship, a sense of inclusion

yet when you step away from this device of delusion,

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you awaken to see, a world of confusion.

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A world where we're slaves to the technology

we mastered,

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where our information gets sold by some rich

greedy bastard.

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A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion,

where we all share all our best bits, but leave

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out the emotion.

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We are at our most happy with an experience

we share,

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but is it the same if no one is there.

Be there for you friends, and they'll be there too

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but no one will be, if a group message will do.

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We edit and exaggerate, we crave adulation,

we pretend we don't notice the social isolation.

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We put our words into order, until our lives

are glistening,

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we don't even know if anyone is listening.

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Being alone isn't the problem, let me just

emphasize,

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that if you read a book, paint a picture,

or do some exercise,

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you are being productive, and present, not

reserved or recluse,

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you're being awake and attentive, and putting

your time to good use.

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So when you're in public, and you start to

feel alone,

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put your hands behind your head, and step

away from the phone.

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You don't need to stare at your menu, or at

your contact list,

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just talk to one another, and learn to co-exist.

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I can't stand to hear the silence, of a busy

commuter train,

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when no one wants to talk through the fear

of looking insane.

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We're becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies

to engage with one another, and look into

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someone's eyes.

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We're surrounded by children, who since they

were born,

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watch us living like robots, and think it's

the norm.

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It's not very likely you will make world's

greatest dad,

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if you cant entertain a child without a using

an iPad.

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When I was a child, I would never be home,

I'd be out with my friends, on our bikes we

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would roam.

We'd ware holes in our trainers, and graze

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up our knees;

we'd build our own clubhouse, high up in the trees.

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Now the parks are so quiet, it gives me a

chill

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to see no children outside and the swings

hanging still.

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There's no skipping, no hopscotch, no church

and no steeple,

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we're a generation of idiots, smart phones

and dumb people.

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So look up from your phone, shut down that

display,

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take in your surroundings, and make the most

of today.

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Just one real connection is all it can take,

to show you the difference that being there can make.

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Be there in the moment, when she gives you

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the look,

that you remember forever, as when love overtook.

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The time you first hold her hand, or first

kiss her lips,

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the time you first disagree, but still love

her to bits.

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The time you don't have to tell hundreds,

about what you've just done,

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because you want to share this moment, with

just this one.

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The time you sell your computer, so you can

buy a ring,

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for the girl of your dreams, who is now the

real thing.

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The time you want to start a family, and the

moment when,

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you first hold your little girl, and get to

fall in love again.

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The time she keeps you up at night, and all

you want is rest,

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and the time you wipe away the tears, as your

baby flees the nest.

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The time your little girl returns, with a

boy for you to hold,

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and the time he calls you granddad, and makes

you feel real old

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The time you take in all you've made, just

by giving life attention,

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and how your glad you didn't waste it, by

looking down at some invention.

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The time you hold your wife's hand, and sit

down beside her bed

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you tell her that you love her, and lay a

kiss upon her head.

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She then whispers to you quietly, as her heart

gives a final beat,

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that she's lucky she got stopped, by that

lost boy in the street.

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But none of these times ever happened, you

never had any of this,

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When you're too busy looking down, you don't

see the chances you miss.

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So look up from your phone, shut down those

displays,

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we have a finite existence, a set number of

days.

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Don't waste your life getting caught in the

net,

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as when the end comes, nothing's worse than

regret.

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I am guilty too, of being part of this machine,

this digital world, we are heard but

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not seen.

Where we type as we talk, we read as we chat

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where we spend hours together, without making eye contact.

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Don't give in to a life where you follow the

hype,

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give people your love, don't give them your

like.

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Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined

Go out into the world, leave distractions behind.

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Look up from your phone, shut down that display,

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stop watching this video, live life the real

way.