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“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
– Leo Buscaglia
We are perfectly aware of the fact that everything on this Earth and outside too, are subjected to change. Change is inevitable. It is a mandatory process that every single entity must go through.
From seconds to centuries, even the matter-less entity of time changes.
In fact, it is one that is constantly changing for all eternity.
With every single change that we humans face, there will definitely be something new to be learnt.
Let us go through the typical life of a modern day person by imagining the events on any given day. Sleep is the blissful gift we have been bestowed upon. We no longer are keen on maintaining the internal body clock. All
thanks to the internet and smartphone, we have our eyes glued on to the screens of the smartphone at midnight… doing what?
Going through the newsfeed on Facebook, chatting with someone over Whatsapp or watching videos on Youtube are all common examples of nocturnal habits of today’s generation. The frustrating thing is that people even wake up to the screens of their smartphones.
Why so much addiction to a device?
Social media has made us anti-social. While eating, while visiting the lavatory, smartphones never leave the hands of people. Are we doing
anything useful with this habit? Yeah! Maybe five percent, we put time to good use. But, mostly it is just the addiction to using a smartphone always (whenever and wherever possible – even though it may not be appropriate in some situations). The medical fact says that prolonged exposure (especially in night time) to the blue-light emitted from the screens of these electronic gadgets can result in pupil cancer. Not to mention several
other physiological and psychological problems that pop-up because of this high-end technology abuse.
Body and mind take a hit because of the habits that we have developed.
In order to avoid taking care of the mischievousness of children, parents hand them a smartphone with colourful and addictive games to play. Kids are not interested in going out to play as much as they did, back a decade ago.
The main defect arising in the psychology of people is the feeling of tiredness without actually doing any physical hard work. The body and mind seems to have slowed down. The brain’s memory to learn and adapt has come to an absolute standstill. All the more priority concern is the lack of attention to something. This generation wants everything in an instant. Be it love, be it a video, be it success, be it marriage, be it life! We now have the attention span of a beetle because of all the 60 seconds reel and shorts that we swipe our life with.
Need anything? Why bother remembering when, on the click of a button answers can be viewed with few to many reviews for them as well.
We are always in a hurry. We want immediate results. We flip out when it comes to waiting for something we want. We have become high
on adulation. Every single person has started to explore the narcissistic part of their character with the profiles on social media.
By constantly going through the posts, we are just passively allowing information to tap into our minds; there is no active learning.
Development is different while development at the cost of one’s identity is a whole
another scary story.
Scholars have said that good and bad are not exactly opposites, but they are like different flavours of the same ice-cream. (i.e.) when the goodness in the world goes to a stage where it is overflowing, then in order to balance
it, a few bad things should develop out of it as time rolls on.
One must begin to think that, at this point of time, in order to strike a balance to the spectacular one sided rise of developments of technology, the need to bring back the ‘old school’ life into our present, has become
mandatory.
The human-human interactions, human-nature interactions, everything must go through a phase of change, where slowly we should start learning that modern trends are being old-school in this present day scenario.
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Is it something so difficult?
Can’t we sit and talk with family members daily?
Can’t we take friendships and relationships seriously and maintain them and cherish them like the good old days?
Can’t we take time out of our so-called busy life and spend time with nature?
Can’t we learn to be less self-centred in a world overflowing with problems, and be more selfless, caring and lovable?
Can’t we become crusaders and work for some good cause, while we are alive?
Can’t we spend at least an hour alone daily to talk with ourselves, to organize our thoughts and replenish our souls with the energy self-generated?
Can’t we be more humans and less machines?
Can’t we be true to ourselves and to others?
Can’t we be honest, loyal and lead a life with integrity?
Can’t we not let the five-year old child inside us die, in the process of growing up?
Can’t we be appreciators instead of critics?
Can’t we live in the present moment instead of floating along with the past and future?
