We all boast that we live in a technologically advanced society...The world is at our finger tip..Last day i was just thinking how fast everything around us changing..how fast we are changing and adapting to everything...
Ten years before..almost..there was this banyan tree near our home..I used to notice how it changes every season..sometimes no leaves atall,then those tender green leaves will come,then those dark green leaves which son turn brow n finally the tree stays there with branches high up in sky with no leaves..this happens year after year after year..no one noticed it much..not even that the tree was cut and now there is a building there in place of the banyan tree..I just said this because things change and we neva notice it..when i was a kid..i six or seven years old i could still rememba the rainy days...the road will be flooded and heavy rain.and on Wednesdays we gotta wear white and white and i half walk half swim from home to the bus stop fully drenched in rain...but now many years passed and there are no rains like that in june-july,no floods,no time for kids to stop by and splash water or make paper boats..
Ive neva heard of mobile phones or pc's when i was ten..But lil kids of that age now talk about sms,mms,bluetooth,war of the world,pop,half life2,hotwheels and batman..hmmm....everyone having more virtual friends than real ones.no one cares for anyone else,not even themselves sometimes..
We used have better memory and more concentration..Because we used to one task at a time...but now its age of multitasking..you talk to your friend on the phone,you chat with some one in gtalk also and thinking about the ad you saw 15 minutes before..may there will be a time when we could no longer do sums fast and everyone start thinking why all the effort when there are calculators or something better or what all the fuss about concentration, im ok this way channel surfing changing channels at the rate of 50 channels per minute..
Banyan trees will be cut,climate will change,our kids will neva know how to make paper boats,more sophisticated gadgets will come,economy will change,WE will change but will it be too late when we stat thinking what is happening to us....may be humans will evolve into human machines!!!!
Friday, October 3, 2008
what is happening to us??
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indeed a very good topic. Like her previous blogs, VMV maintains the top level thinking and class, this time through an issue of social concern. She has made me think after reading this. I don find any kid in neighbourhood, playing with kids of his same age, as I did. They all are interested in their virtual friends network including spidey, pokemon, etc. But I believe this is happening to all kids of the kind. Life is racy and indeed parents don have time to check their kid's leisure activities. And as a result, they get adhered with cartoon characters and superheroes. I don think, any kid of the present generation would share with his friends like, "I spent a weekend in dad's house, bathing in river, walking through paddy fields, stoning mangoes and relishing them etc". Instead they would love speaking about the highest score they set in FIFA or shortest time they raced off "Hot pursuit".
Can't blame them though, after all, where are the paddy fields now?
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Regards,
RB:)
hi Remil..thankz for sharing your thoughts...yeah..we cant blame the kids...but the question is when the time comes there is a reversal of roles,that we are no longer the younger generation..what will we do..will we let our kids go out and play or will we spent some time with them or will we be busy scheduling our day around the meting we got at 9pm..probability is more for the third option..
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