Just asking (33): Dial, click or tap?

Just said goodbye to 2025.
2026 is still sitting on the sofa.

These three words pair well with a sigh, borrowing from wine connoisseurs’ language.

It really does.

If you never “dialed” a number, that verb is a stranger.
Although you may have heard it used in older TV commercials or read from paper advertisements, “dial this number” even when phones hardly had dial.
Or you still are asked to listen to the “dial tone”.

If you have used the word “click”, then chances are you have been into the IT age, or more accurately PC age.
Perhaps a mouse must have been the companion.

By the time you realize that you only know “tap”, then iPhone or Samsung has been in your pocket.
You might have an experience where you were in a mall and you wanted to locate a store in there by using the mall’s large lighted panel in the shape of a large cell phone screen.
Subconsciously you tapped on the panel but nothing happened.
It wasn’t a smart phone surface!

No one will tell you “tap my number”.
Unlikely too “click my number”.
Never “dial this link”.

Breeze through dial-click-tap.
All in a lifetime.

Just like from 2025 to 2026.
Or 2024 to 2025.
Again 2023 to 2024.
You get the point.

A breeze.

Do you feel the swiftness and the brevity they bring?

Dial-click-tap.

Just asking.

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Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. (Psalms 90:10, New Living Translation)