Are we losing it? To technology

Born in 1988

Certainly the word "internet" wasn't heard of..in msia at least

Yea probably not much, but I did grow up fighting for toys with others

As the eldest, I didn't have to fight a lot for toys

But when I did, and when I lost the 'fight', I had to wait

Patiently or impatiently, I waited

We even take turns, to have a go at Super Nitendo (yes the console with cartridges inserted)

And then, we grew up...

Technology has an exponential growth nowadays

The speed of a processor just got faster and faster

From floppy disk to iCloud, it took less than 20 years

Less than my age, yeap!

And those price tags of computers are at a constant battle with time

Losing its value in every second, a tech product ages quickly

Take a look around you

I bet you're reading off a screen

You're surrounded by technology

It's inevitable

It's essential

It's constructive, but I think, yet destructive in a way

Ironically, without it, I wouldn't be able to write this post

And you wouldn't be able to read it too

YES, it's ESSENTIAL!

It doesn't happen everywhere, but surely somewhere

Take a step away from a group of people, a family for examples

Look at them..

There's 5 of them

But all you could hear..sound of a keyboard, artificial fruit slashing sound effect, news report from a tv channel, the leaked music from someone's earphone, occasionally, the dad's cough or the daughter's sneeze

Weren't there suppose to be any conversations?

They're so close together physically

But they're so far away..

So far away that you tell facebook (the world) your problems and the person sitting right next to you has no idea that you're struggling at all

To me, that's sad, really sad

Imagine just 10 years ago, just picture it, the differences

I know this is not something new, or some new phenomenon that I've just discovered

It's known, that this world is getting smaller. However, the distances apart between humans, are they getting any smaller, too?

Certainly, some communities are doing better than another

Some appreciate the closeness and warmth of a random conversation

Some would regard a stranger who starts talking a weirdo or a fabulist

Have facebook checking become part of your life every 30 minutes?

Anticipating that notification have become your second nature?

The words you utter everyday just got lesser and lesser?

These aren't wrong, in a sense, they're totally fine and normal to do actually

BUT, are you ignoring the person sitting just less than a meter away from you

Or is he/she ignoring you too?

And you both are just staring at a warm but lifeless screen of incredible resolution, but not noticing a being with 37.4 degree Celsius body temperature?

Why not just start a conversation?

Why not just ask "how are you?"

What is love?

I just know that it's more genuine between two living beings that communicate

Come on, tell the world that you're actually alive!

Take the time to listen, and be patient please, we humans are not as fast as machines sometimes..