A Beautiful Life

January 4th, 2012

Someone rightly said that the technological developments in the last 50 years have been many times more than the rest of the known civilization put together. I am quite happy to have been born in this age. All these developments have made life so much easier! But then, like all things, this too has a flip side. While I enjoy the ease these developments bring to my life, I miss the personal touch. I miss seeing people, I miss interacting with them, I miss the human touch that seems to be so rare now.

A swipe card opens the door for me; there is no doorman to greet me with a warm smile. My colleagues work real time providing and analysing data for gas companies. They barely acknowledge my presence as seconds make a world of difference. I suspect I act like them too. At home, it’s the same story. Though we live as a family, we warm our pre-cooked food and eat it alone. No longer do we waste time sitting together to talk and bond while eating together. Machines take the place of family. We seldom see each other as all of us work different hours. Technological advancements have made sure we can work round the clock. No longer do we have the luxury of fixed work hours. We compensate by leaving notes. We call. We mail each other. Weekends are packed with shopping, social events and friends. Most of it is through the internet. And then we are so tired, we just want to get some rest before the alarm wakes us up for the next week.

Often, I feel sad at this impersonal life where people have been replaced by the cyber world. Where people are cut off from others eventually become emotional and uncommunicative wrecks and are uncomfortable with each other. Where people no longer matter but machines do.

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