"You won't believe who was sitting next to me at the
coffee shop this evening!" a friend came and told me today creating the
drama he mastered over the years. He later told me that in the table next to
his sat a man without a phone in his hand or even a laptop in his table.
According to him it was quite odd and was quite certain that he was deranged as
only they could act like that.
While I knew he was trying to be funny, deep inside me I knew
it definitely was a rare sighting in today's world. Such individuals are few
and far in between.
The world has taken giant leaps over the past century and
left behind the old ways of life. The Generation X of the world who was largely
responsible for this change are fast turning into senior citizens challenged
with the impacts of their own revolution. Some of us are stuck in the middle
struggling with the new way of life while still romanticizing with the past.
We conveniently blame our smart phones and other gadgets as
reason for not being able to spend quality times with our family, friends and
loved ones. But the fact of the matter is these gadgets are here to stay and the
sooner we learn to adopt those into our lifestyle, the better it is for us.
Our ability to remain connected to the internet 24x7 doesn’t
not mean that we should be constantly surfing the net. Similarly it also doesn’t
warrant that we should keep passing on messages to a large group of friends or acquaintances
as soon as we receive those from somewhere. There is no denying that we cannot
shun those from our life any more as our favourite pastime, reading, too has
become digital. Only when we bring discipline in our life we will be able to
use these technologies as tools to improve our life and not let them become the
wedge that pushes the family apart. Otherwise persons around us shall continue
to become invisible as we stay engrossed in our computers, laptops or other
handheld devices and each individual becomes an isolated island.
Only when we control what we do, when we do and how we do
things in our life shall we create little islands of kissanpur in our daily
life and enjoy the joy of being together and happiness or in other word
togetherness.
The joy increases manifold when we all go to a new place
with our extended family and spend at least a week in a hotel where all we need
to care about is spend quality time, laugh together remembering all those sweet
memories from the past and at the same time creating memories for the future.
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