A generation of open minds and a league of the all knowing people, we are the ones who know what is good for us, yet we focus on embracing the bad. Lack of discipline or seriousness, God knows what it is, but we surely are the group of people who are digging our own graves.
Trapped in the shackles of this modern technology and gasping to escape the suffocation of pretentiousness, we are a civilization of people who have long forgotten who we exactly are. We live our lives on social media and believe in the illusion it reflects in front of our eyes.
Happiness is no more defined by seeing your baby smile; it is something that is derived out of how many people press the ‘thumbs-up’ button on the social media for your baby’s new picture.
Peace is no more derived by taking a walk with friends but it is something that is absorbed from pouring your heart out on social media by uploading pictures with quotes that precisely depict your current state of mind.
Technology is a blessing, no one can condemn that. But, the contrary to this statement cannot also be argued. Just like every coin has two sides, technology has two sides too. Both are equal and both are deeper than the depths of the Pacific.
The new marvels of the science have brought everything in our hands, but little do we realize that it has snatched many things out of our hands too. It has connected old friends and in a bid to peep into their lives, we are missing out on what’s happening in the life of our friend sitting right besides us. This was just an example.
To be generic in my talking, I would just say that technology has built us up so much that it has impaired us drastically. We are equipped by the best forms of this modern marvel yet we are unhappy inside and that is totally because technology has got us to this point.
But, the inhuman and heartless, cold machines are not the only ones to blame. We humans share the equal blame too. Not because we made the technology. Not because we accepted it. It is only and only because we never limited the usage of it.
We have resorted so much to the technology form entertainment to seeking emotional bonding that we have forgotten to live the real life. Technology has brought everything to our finger tips and that has made us feel self-sufficient but little do we realise that this formidable self-sufficiency is leading us to solitude and loneliness that is causing depression in major of millennials of this time.
You see, it’s a circle. It’s a whole circle which very few can behold at. The moment you enter this whole world of gadgets, technology, the WORLD WIDE WEB, social media and tones and tones of radiations, you get absorbed in it. You feel you have everything but in a bid to have everything on this virtual world, you cut off from your real world.
Which is why, when you eventually look back, you see there is no one following you. The current state is the same with everyone. The person sending you a “Hi” on some random messenger app is standing right besides you. The only problem is you two don’t know that you two are besides each other. Technology has blinded you to that limit.
The only way to save yourself from this is to strike a balance. Because I always say, “Everything in this world is balance and that is why, this world still exists.” That is why; you too need to strike a balance between the technology and your real life.
The moment you attain this balance, you will be able to look at the pleasant world around you, feel the freshness of it and absorb the realness of your abode. That is truly when you will keep the phone aside and tap the shoulder of the person standing right besides you to say “Hi” and this will mark the realness of your life.
