Immersed in cell phones, ear-phones on the ear, engrossed in reading a recent tweet or
up-date, hypnotized by the spell of smart-phones, unconscious from their next-door neighbor, extrinsically pleasant but
intrinsically exhausted, frustrated, worn out and fatigued, I find zombies
everywhere, technological zombies.
If I go twenty years back, I feel like that we were quite happy when the phone was only an instrument, a call making or text receiving the instrument. But in the modern age, it seems that our young generation is hardly unaware about “phone” existing in their smart-phones. We are not just mortified by smartphones; rather there are tabs, palmtops, and many other electronic devices.
To greet birthdays, marriages, the momentous events physical visit was considered pivotal. Each rendezvous used to result in strengthened family bonds, fastened relationships, and shortened spiritual distance. There was no sensation of alienation and loneliness. We were sure of having people side by side in the time distress and demoralization. Then “phone” was thrown in our lives same as a stone is thrown in rivers to disrupt the peace of river. Preferences were changed, life was transformed, and new patterns of living were evolved. Initially, the feeling of having an instrument that could connect you to your dear-ones living hundred and thousand miles away was very delightful. Voice of those could be heard daily, with whom the meeting was only possible in a year. At the start we used to control our phone, later it started controlling our lives. Instead of making a visit it was a great comfort to say “happy birthday” or “Eid Mubarak” through a phone-call.
Then we stepped forward ahead. We got more thrifty and parsimonious. Rather making a “call” we placed reliance on sending a “wish-full” text. Days passed by, we got more advanced and sophisticated but perplexed and exhausted. Now we don’t make a call or send a text rather we update a status on facebook, tweet on tweeter account or keep the others informed through whats app.
The one who receives a baby or gets married gets a job or accomplish a degree posts a status and those who want to wish him either open-heatedly or close-fistedly comments below the status. No facial interaction, no warm-exchange of feeling just a hollow or dry “congratulation” we give or receive. I feel like that it is not the celebration rather an insult of the bounty that we receive.
The technology was introduced to make our life easier and comfortable so that we could have more time to celebrate, interact and to exhale a sigh of grieve. It was made the part of our lives to give us “something” may be some relief. But it seems that it has taken away more as compared to what it has given to us. I am not against the use of technology or communicating devices rather I just want the people to make their cell phones wait not the dear-ones.
If I go twenty years back, I feel like that we were quite happy when the phone was only an instrument, a call making or text receiving the instrument. But in the modern age, it seems that our young generation is hardly unaware about “phone” existing in their smart-phones. We are not just mortified by smartphones; rather there are tabs, palmtops, and many other electronic devices.
To greet birthdays, marriages, the momentous events physical visit was considered pivotal. Each rendezvous used to result in strengthened family bonds, fastened relationships, and shortened spiritual distance. There was no sensation of alienation and loneliness. We were sure of having people side by side in the time distress and demoralization. Then “phone” was thrown in our lives same as a stone is thrown in rivers to disrupt the peace of river. Preferences were changed, life was transformed, and new patterns of living were evolved. Initially, the feeling of having an instrument that could connect you to your dear-ones living hundred and thousand miles away was very delightful. Voice of those could be heard daily, with whom the meeting was only possible in a year. At the start we used to control our phone, later it started controlling our lives. Instead of making a visit it was a great comfort to say “happy birthday” or “Eid Mubarak” through a phone-call.
Then we stepped forward ahead. We got more thrifty and parsimonious. Rather making a “call” we placed reliance on sending a “wish-full” text. Days passed by, we got more advanced and sophisticated but perplexed and exhausted. Now we don’t make a call or send a text rather we update a status on facebook, tweet on tweeter account or keep the others informed through whats app.
The one who receives a baby or gets married gets a job or accomplish a degree posts a status and those who want to wish him either open-heatedly or close-fistedly comments below the status. No facial interaction, no warm-exchange of feeling just a hollow or dry “congratulation” we give or receive. I feel like that it is not the celebration rather an insult of the bounty that we receive.
The technology was introduced to make our life easier and comfortable so that we could have more time to celebrate, interact and to exhale a sigh of grieve. It was made the part of our lives to give us “something” may be some relief. But it seems that it has taken away more as compared to what it has given to us. I am not against the use of technology or communicating devices rather I just want the people to make their cell phones wait not the dear-ones.
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