Yes It Is Happening

Why we are like this these days

In our childhood, we used to have a landline phone fixed at a particular place. There was no social media, no games, no distractions. Although talking for a long time on the phone could distract us, it could charge us more, wouldn’t it? After that, mobile phones came into our lives. In those phones, we used to play the snake game the most. We can’t forget that game, right?

OK, with time many versions of phones with many new games emerged in the market, and here the tension for the parents started. We’ll not eat food if we don’t get a game on my phone. We’ll not study until we do not get a phone for one game. I’ll not go to the playground with my friends. I love the games on my phone more than playing outside.

Physical activities of children decreased. Health decreased, eyesight got poor, obesity increased. But the thing which got affected the most was relations in a family. Parents were worried about their children who were now not talking to them, were not paying attention to their studies, were not listening to what others were saying or their eyes were still on the phones while talking to someone. These all things started happening and no doubt are still happening. But there is a twist.

That twist is, now parents have also not lagged behind. They have also gotten a new tech phone. Now where children used to be there whole morning and night on their phones, here parents have also been involved fully in the process. They are asking their children how to use Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. there is nothing wrong with that. We should grow with the latest technology. We should know how to use today’s things.

But wait, what is happening here? We can’t wake up without our phones around. We can’t go to the toilet without phones. We can’t cook, we can’t walk, we can’t work, we can’t sleep, basically, we can’t live without them. Especially, from the time internet got cheaper, we have stopped imagining our lives without them. We become restless whenever our phone’s battery gets lower, data is used early or we are set somewhere without this gadget.

There is another curve in the story. We are seeing that now elders are more involved in this thing than the younger. Now the children crave attention from their elders. Now they tell them that this much indulgence in these gadgets is not good, please spend some quality time with us, please take out some time out of your phones and listen to what we have to say.

Where that time has gone when we used to laugh together during our dinner after listening to the stories of one another, when we used to play chess, carrom, ludo with each other in our leisure time, when we used to discuss our future plans, our current problems with our family?

All have just vanished. The only thing has left is fakeness. Fakeness for happiness, fakeness for sadness, fakeness for struggle. We just try to show others what we are not just because the trends are saying us to do so. Now no one wants to talk, everyone wants to message. Even if we are in the same room.

The point of this whole article was just to make all of us think about it. It is good to grow with time. It is good to learn new things. It is good to go with trends. But these things are not good at the cost of our relations, health, and ourselves. There should be some time in our whole day where we are spending our time with ourselves, with our loved ones, keeping our gadgets aside.

This is what I am feeling these days. I hope you liked this article. If you did please share your experience as well.

Thank you :)