Everyday we place a personalized world in our back pockets. We toss it on our desk, drop it on the ground and lose it in the depths of our backpack, all while being trapped inside a lifeproof case.

Our phones are little pieces of technology that inevitably get neglected, but our entire lives are wrapped up in them.

They allow us access to virtually everything. We can see the world in real time through apps such as Periscope or read the news on Twitter the second it breaks. But we don’t.

We flip to the front facing camera and look at ourselves. We care about likes and followers and what’s trending. We have the world at our fingertips, but somehow, we isolate ourselves.

Our generation doesn’t seem to be surprised by much of anything either.

There’s a constant stream of information that we’re exposed to coming from all across the globe, but what do we do with it? Nothing.

We believe that we’ve seen it all, which is somewhat true, but only through a screen.

It’s not only social media that pulls our attention from everything beyond Snapchat. As people grow older, they tend to find things routine, ordinary. There’s no wonder or amazement for anything.

Take flying for example: airplanes travel at roughly a height of 37,000 feet. To place that into perspective, that’s over 61 Space Needles stacked on top of one another.

But in a flight as short as two hours, people place their headphones in, pull out their computers and pay $17 for wi-fi so they can stay connected to the world they’re flying over.

We are literally in the clouds, and yet we’re worried about our connection to Apple’s iCloud.

So rather than focusing on likes or what filter is going to look the best, put your phone away and take a minute to look around. Have a conversation with someone and learn their story. Grab a window seat next time you fly and understand that you’re in a metal tube flying at 600 mph.

The world is changing every day. If you keep your face buried in your phone, you’ll miss it.