A quote from Charles Simic in " a Reunion with Boredom"

In the essay by Charles Simic "A Reunion with Boredom" tells a story of what Charles Simics experience on the aftermath of hurricane Irene. He writes about how bored he was without the gadgets of today’s world. He then starts to realize why he is bored and that in the past a experience a different kind of boredom. He states “Drowning in it, I came face-to-face with myself as if in a mirror. I became a spectator of my own existence, which by turns struck me as being too real or unreal (Simic, 2011).” I believe that Charles Simic is telling us that he was to focus on the type of boredom he is experience. Like his lack of cell phone use, Internet use and any kind of technology use.  He began to look at himself and realize that with those technologies he doesn’t have the control of himself but he was just a spectator of his life. He then questions himself if what he was doing with those technologies for himself or for others.  I believe that this quote show how technology is being used today and that we don’t know what to do if these technologies are gone.