Where are we going??

      Where Are WeGoing..??

My grandpa used to say, “When I was of 18, I used work along with my father in the field, as I didn’t have much attachment with my friends. I used to spend all my days in the farming as I didn’t have access to mobile phone that you are using now. I am about to pass now, however, I could luckily see and touch the phone but still don’t know to use it. I just used to spend all my days with my father dealing whole day with nature and enjoying the real beauty of nature.”

When I sat aside with my Dad one day, in a specific context he said, “when I was of 18, I used to work with my father in his shop in my leisure. Besides, I used to spend my remaining leisure with my friends, playing in the barren field with all the body nasty but full of emotions and remembrance. I used to study but in physical presence of text books. Neither my father nor I had seen the smart phone in my time which you are using now. In spite of those, I was able to enjoy the real and physical beauty of the nature along with the presence of my company indeed rather meeting up virtually in digital gadgets.”

And after connecting the words of my grandpa and my dad, I was pondered about myself and the company of my age group and this entire generation, “Where Are We going…?? ” 

Today, when I put myself in the place of my grandpa and my Dad, I feel strange about that world that they used to survive in. simultaneously when I return to my time era, it makes me contemplative about my lifestyle and habits.

Whether it is the boon of science! Or curse..! 

    We are all entrapped by the virtual agents and its perverse impacts. Once it was a time, when people used to recreate oneself playing the physical games and roaming around the places for regular entertainment and merely used to play music on their phones when they were bored. In the contrast, when we observe today’s generation, they enjoy the so called virtual platforms viz. internet, social media, online gaming and even cyberpunk as well as cybersex. Individuals nowadays engage themselves in the counter attraction of this digitization and enhancement of technologies. If today is one’s birthday, he/she will spend less time in cutting cake and celebrating birthday with his/her family and friends in physical presence but he/she will spend comparatively much more time in celebration of his/her birthday on social media viz. making reels on instagram, snaps on snapchat, posts in facebook as well as videos contents on tiktok. What is these all? Drawbacks of parents in nursing of their child? Or inventions of technologies?

    If I give my perspective, it is all because of pessimistic influences of technologies and also the pervert of digitization by the individuals of this era. It is all because of wrong trend of digital fashion and its imitations in antagonist manner by the adolescents of this generation. They are become the fond of using social media and other distracting gadgets but are in completely disagreement with real fun, wonders and even recreational practices.

    It makes me apprehensive when I imagine that there is no more time left when my child ask me….Dad, how was your time and practices when you were 18?

    This question from my child would make me inarticulate or make me reveal the above truth.

    Hence, it is thus advisable for the company to transform oneself from mask of virtual universe. The current time can be the great platform for the individual to alter oneself optimistically for the new creation of living. It is right time for the generation to realize that the real beauty of life retains out of the digital and virtual universe. The ultimate living of individual is wrapped up in the natural and physical presence of mesmerizing real world than virtual ones. This is appropriate moment for the current generation to emerge out of impractical aliveness and take the advantage of actual scenario of the world with attached ones indeed.

©Srawan Shah