My pedestrian essay
Everyday I step foot on campus and walk past my fellow peers, and we all just walk past each other like we're invisible to one another. To fixated on what's trending latest on socialmedia, too scared to look up off their phones and engage in a conversation with someone, or Maybe the fear of rejection so instead we seek acceptance through our online conversations behind a screen. We cross paths with each other but in reality were on two completely different roads of technology just searching for a reason not to look up off that leech that we call a phone sucking and draining our social lives that we used to have with one another not too long ago. In “The Pedestrian”, the story opens with Leonard taking his daily walk throughout the city. As he walks, he contemplates the lives of the people in the houses around him, where everyone is watching television or too focused on a tiny screen. Everyone chooses not to find their happiness through reality and nature but instead people ch