tech threat

It’s cold and dark evening outside, slightly drizzling, people cozying up on their beds and sofas, some in their deep sleep, some intensely fidgeting on their phones and laptops. The older ones who are still awake are in front of TV screens seeing the show with strange facial gestures. 

                     

The rarest of the views these days is a book in the hands of someone deeply engrossed in the story. Books are a rare category these days, nobody reads, or people think its old fashioned. Who wants to read when we have Internet and google, getting the whole information at a finger touch , no body wants to go and lift a copy to know something , this has happened  because information is so easily available to anybody , at any time.,

reading and books  have lost its worth. Gone are the days when someone use to buy a book and every one use to read it one after another. Or everybody use to contribute equally for their favorite author’s latest release. 

It has started raining outside now, the streets deserted, and just the shadows of those street lamps on the road, dark clouds above showering water. Street dogs and cats taking shelter in abandoned cars and scooters, preventing themselves from getting wet. The whole area change’s into a pleasant Atmosphere , very few realizing it’s the first rain of this season , we don’t keep the tracks of the seasons anymore  because we are not interested , no matter what happens outside we only care for ourselves , only care for how many likes we have got on our photo or how many views we got on the video , but we never care to move our head  from our screens and see what really is going on the  streets , or around us , if we do we would  know the true value of  things  . The point here I am making is  technology is amazing, you can do anything imaginable on it, it has made world into a different place altogether, but we should not get addicted to it.  using it to certain extent is good , but if you are obsessed , then you got a trouble  , you might know that  how many  youngsters have bone problems and  ear issues , hearing irregularities , skin tensions , eyes defects , spondyloses and many other forms of dysfunctions . why is this happening, because we don’t have certain limitations to our usage, we don’t follow a time table, we don’t realize what our body is saying, what we do is bluntly stick to one thing , that is laptop or mobile phone without checking how much time we spend on it, which is completely UN healthy .make a track on how much time you spend on your technology, if your time is exceeding then be hard enough to stop yourself ,  self-controlle  is the best remedy. 

I was talking a few paras above about how the technology had lost its value, because  it is so easily available, and effortlessly used.I remember how in school we use to scroll a number of books in libraries and bookstores for a particular project, taking down rough notes from tons of books that we had borrowed, and then doing number of edits before it would go into the final project. All this would take excruciating amount of time and effort, and we would be exhausted by it, but in the end when the project was submitted we would feel like, an Achievement, a gainful and knowledgeable experience by reading and going through all that material. I don’t think kids in this time would know what it was to make a project or assignment before technology became so common. It was hard, but we enjoyed it. 

The phones were not so common in those days, only phone in my school was in the principal’s office, and later another phone was added at the reception .At my house there was only one landline phone on which everyone use to call  , all my friends , my brothers friends , my dad’s and sisters friends, all use call on the same phone , so everyone knew each other’s friends and acquaintances . the good point was that the parents knew the whereabouts of their kids and what where their activities, there was a sort of transparency of what everyone in the family was doing .The only mode through which you would contact your friend was through phone or physically meet him, other than this you couldn’t get in touch with him , unlike today were there are dozens of apps through which you can be connected.

  

Today every single kid from primary school  to collage have their own set of gadgets.The kids are much more materialistic , they demand with loud gestures all the brands gadgets and accessories  they want , they fake their own personality , try to imitate  their demi heroes  and  have no idea why they are doing  this .  If you ask them why they are following a particular icon, they stare at you blankly, and after some time they reply, because everyone is following, this means, they don’t have their own opinion and taste for something they are so much into. These urbane beings mostly found around multiplexes, girls and women’s collages and hostels, and inside the cinema hall cuddling with someone, if they get a call, they don’t show the courtesy of going outside , but talk loudly in the hall itself, giving a damn about the movie, or others who are watching it , they come in a group of seven or nine , and all of them  busy in their smart phones , who’s light flashes all over the dark hall disrupting  the view of the  movie  for  people who are sitting behind  them , they don’t realize that there are few serious people who come to cinema halls genuinely for watching movies not philandering or derailing away or to see them cozying up with their female friends .i for once on a crowded Saturday night  heard a very loud  slapping noise in the dark hall and realized someone had got a lesson on his cheek  for his miss behavior  , the sound was so loud that it resonated the whole space , many people turning their eyes away  from the screen to see what happened .

You would be thinking that I might be someone old, who's giving a lecture on  how to behave and  do self control , but I am of your age and your time, born just a few years before you. I don't mean to preach and give sermons  but since i have observed all these occurrences many times , i wanted to address it with full impact .

In the end I just want to say that, technology in its aspects is extremely great and perfectly useful but too much use of it might be harmful, you may not realize that it might cause a long term health issue. It also keeps you physically disconnected from family and friends, just realize how many other creative things you could do, or finish something that was pending for a long time. Instead of just whiling away your time liking photos and commenting on them .

Secondly , the so called urbane dudes  springing around with their fake behavior and accents , who try to brag  about their gadgets and vehicles and their degrees , showing them in front of people who  don’t  show much interest in them , we now want to make it clear  that we don’t give a damn on anything you possess .