Instead of texting at every single light and staring at your phone, and — God forbid — missing a text from whoever decided to text you…

Why don’t you just go back to what we used to do?

Put your hands on the steering wheel.

Put your eyes on the windshield.

Steer straight ahead, and look at things called stop signs.

Red lights.

Green lights.

Road signs.

Okay, following me? Good. I’m glad, I’m glad you are following me.

Now that you’re following me, I want you to do something you haven’t done in quite a long time.

I want you to get in your car, and I want you to put your phone down, and I want you to drive your car.

That’s right, just drive the car. Take a look at the trees that are around you, take a look at the traffic that’s around you. Listen to music.

Don’t react to cellphone texts, don’t look for Instagram. When you’re at a stop light, just be aware that there are other human beings who are behind you.

That’s right, people. Do you remember what they look like?

I know the people that you think people look like are only on Facebook.

But there truly are other people in this world.

I want you to be more aware of them.

Because they’re behind you and they don’t feel like sitting at a stop light any longer than they have to while you get out your precious text, or answer a quick e-mail.

Listen, Mr. and Mrs. Multi-tasker…

I’ve been guilty of this behavior many times, but I when I check my texts at a stop light, I do it so fast and I don’t respond, and I’m looking at the little green light and red light thing… you know, that device that hangs from a cord.

So I’m aware of other people.

The biggest message is: I just think so many people out there nowadays are so absorbed in their own life, that they don’t realize other people are around them.

We’ve managed to become a universe of one, and that’s why I think the name, iPhone, is very appropriate. Because we’ve all become about I, I, I.

I feel this way, I need to answer a text, I need to be heard, I need to post, I need to blah blah blah blah blah.

You get the drift? Driving is only becoming a by-product of the I culture that we have truly become.

We’re so into ourselves nowadays. We have such a need to be heard by the world.

We have a such a sense of fully being connected. The thing is, there’s other people on the road who are total strangers. People who don’t know you, people who don’t care about you, and people who want to go somewhere, to get somewhere, so they can get to their life and see their people, and have their fun, and have their connections. They want to get to work. They don’t want to sit and have to honk the horn at you to wake you up from your I world.

Get my point? Good. Now, pass this article on to many of the I people out there.

And maybe, together as a world, we can be we again. Because we is more powerful than I. Because we is two letters, and I is one solitary, lonely, letter.