The world today is
lonely! World has globalized but communications & interactions have fallen
apart. Humans have built technologies to the next level but human interactions
towards each other are indeed going backwards. There was a time when people
talked to each other with ease; today individual’s interactions are between
them, their smart phones & social networking sites.
We might be having lots
of friends on Facebook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp but how many do we really
interact with like we used to, before such technologies is a question? Today
communications are more with technology & not with humans. Earlier
everybody used to ask address in person, interaction was more; today we google
search. Where has communication lost? Have you ever thought of giving a time to
your child without an IPad? Have you spend time with your family & friends
without smart phones? Even children today prefer playing on IPad & smart
phones rather than playing with parents or in the parks. Its weird today,
friends meet up in group but are busy on individual’s smart phones. Families
eat together but everyone is busy in WhatsApp. Where has true relations
dispersed. Earlier there were no locks to hide in life, people were more open, and
today there is a lock in everything from mails to smart phones to WhatsApp to personal
life. Is it like we are living a life of a prisoner? Hiding has become a part
of our routine. Obsession has taken over us, self-obsession. We can wait to see
people online but don’t bother to start interactions, weird but truth. Everyone
shows they are not lonely but the fact is we actually are, we keep our self so
engrossed to today’s technologies that has foreseen what it has done to us.
Have you seen the real world, its nature & experienced the beauty since the
inception of such technologies, have you been & spend quality time with
people you loved, the real time? Ask yourself, are you living a life as a human
or technology has overpowered on everything upon us?
Our intellectuals are
depriving, angers are rising, and patience is diminishing. Statistics proves we
today are becoming “narrow minded” than what we earlier were; “Broad minded”.
We all are a part of it. Think what we have done to ourselves where we find
loneliness to ourselves more comforting with such technologies than loneliness
without dear ones. Are we humans or we people driven by such technologies?
