Technology and Morals

 Hi Ya'll.

While technology has been deeply rooted in our daily lives now, certainly it clashes with ethics and morals in some spaces. Our daily routines have been so accustomed to the use of latest gadgets and apps that we’ve become somewhat slaves to it. Who remembers using landlines anymore? We have mobiles and they’re so much better! 

We find these devices a better, faster way to get anything done but we’re also damaging so many things in the process. Condolences are paid on phones and we lost the feel of hugging someone who needed it the most. Your best friend had a baby, you video-called instead of actually visiting, couriered the gifts along; the baby became familiar with you as “The aunt who comes on my phone and sends me parcels”. Oh and food is eaten only AFTER you’ve taken a few good pictures to be posted on social media.

The granny who longed to see you and talk to you is now hopelessly watching you staying busy in your tab sitting right beside her, as if you weren’t even there. The education suddenly flipped towards online meetings and assignments. The little children lost interest because they wished to sit beside their friends and learn together. 

Certain someone wants to keep a specific news to themselves, their news spirals like a wild fire because someone else posted and now social media is full of that one news. Your next door neighbor is extremely sick, you haven’t visited them in person since ages, so you find out about their illness through their social accounts rather than through going to their place.

Being rude to strangers was never even thought of in olden time, now we find everyone on the internet fighting with each other. Perseverance and patience is drained down the hole and everyone debates over who is right and who is not.

We lost the human touch as we dived deep into technology. It will not be wrong to say, we grew closer to technology and farther from our dear ones. We’re busy capturing photos of rare moments instead of truly treasuring them. We are too busy being ‘tech-savvy’ that we lose the real essence of an instance.

I truly feel if in some ways, technology is the best solution to a lot of issues, we’re somewhat downgrading our ‘human-ness’ due to it. 

We need to breathe and live more then being ‘techy’.