Doing Nothing Anna Quindlein Summary
What is Loneliness and Companionship Today
Introduction
Anna Quindlein's article titled Doing nothing is something published on May 12, 2002 and William Deresiewicz's The End Of Solitude published February 30, 2009 seek to explain how modernity has changed the way man socializes and spends time. Quindlein views this change from the perspective of a busy scheduled life more so for children who now lack time for themselves while Deresiewicz looks at it from the angle of a lonely but an overly communicating people.
Quindlein's argument In her article, Quindelin paints up a picture in the readers mind of an approaching summer which in the past presented children with time to get bored. That personal time she explains provides an individual with the opportunity to be creative. She however states that the contemporary world has made children over occupied without time to reflect upon themselves or even think creatively. According to the writer, parents contribute heavily in forcing children to engage in unexciting activities to suit their own busy programs. She writes,". . . into the life of frantic and often joyless activity with which our children are saddled while their parents pursue frantic and often joyless activity of their own. . ." (Quindelin,2016). …show more content…
He brings out the irony of man coming up with innovation to kill boredom out of the fear of it but ends up with an unclear escape from solitude. Instead he gets a newer advanced way of getting busy on social networks yet remaining with a lonely soul after all the heavy communication."Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone" (Deresiewicz,
Introduction
Anna Quindlein's article titled Doing nothing is something published on May 12, 2002 and William Deresiewicz's The End Of Solitude published February 30, 2009 seek to explain how modernity has changed the way man socializes and spends time. Quindlein views this change from the perspective of a busy scheduled life more so for children who now lack time for themselves while Deresiewicz looks at it from the angle of a lonely but an overly communicating people.
Quindlein's argument In her article, Quindelin paints up a picture in the readers mind of an approaching summer which in the past presented children with time to get bored. That personal time she explains provides an individual with the opportunity to be creative. She however states that the contemporary world has made children over occupied without time to reflect upon themselves or even think creatively. According to the writer, parents contribute heavily in forcing children to engage in unexciting activities to suit their own busy programs. She writes,". . . into the life of frantic and often joyless activity with which our children are saddled while their parents pursue frantic and often joyless activity of their own. . ." (Quindelin,2016). …show more content…
He brings out the irony of man coming up with innovation to kill boredom out of the fear of it but ends up with an unclear escape from solitude. Instead he gets a newer advanced way of getting busy on social networks yet remaining with a lonely soul after all the heavy communication."Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone" (Deresiewicz,