The most addictive thing out there today is our own phone.
No one is cautious anymore. We just live in the screen and no longer notice what is really going on around us.
He was already gone.
He stood right next to a big open hole. It was wide enough to fall into. But he only looked at his phone. The hole was there. The danger was clear. He did not see it. His mind was on a message, a video, a chat. None of that was worth the fall.