Technology - A blessing or a curse?

It’s said that the world has become a smaller place, thanx to the advancement in technology. It has cut across distances and helps us reach out and communicate with one and another so easily. It has blessed us with mediums like mobile phones, sms, messenger, video conferencing etc. And it just doesn’t seem to stop there…while all this advancement and technology has made communication so easy and effective. I often wonder if we really communicate with true feeling anymore.

Beautiful words such as “I love you”, “I Miss you” “Thinking of you “are easier to communicate but have seem to have minimized to sheer templates on a mobile handset.

Getting to know some one is restricted to a getting access to his / her virtual identity …funnily we even judge people by details of their on -line profiles.

In our fast paced lifestyle talking and listening to a loved one has become an effort too…a ‘task for the day’ on our daily scheduler.

The emails and e-greeting cards have taken away the personal touch of hand written letters and colourful greetings cards. Even if snail mail took days to reach you …you were sure that your loved one had genuinely thought of you with warmth…automated reminders and auto mail dispatch doesn’t really leave much to wonder.

Chat and email groups let us communicate with friends and family across the globe but has surely taken away the true joy that meeting people, enjoy a good laugh, trying to gauge and understand hidden emotions in ones eyes or sense true feelings.

It has also given us options to capture moments. We even have started admiring nature’s beauty and beautiful moments in digital formats.

We have started taking little pleasures of life for granted. Where is this technological advancement taking us ? Surely to a zone which our ancestors never imagined but far far away from humanity, love, personal touch, emotions, beauty and above all ‘Realness’

While I am very much a part of this rat race I still enjoy meeting a friend over a loving chat, enjoy the warmth of a loving hug from a loved one, try sending personally hand written greeting cards that convey true feelings , create occasions to convey and share my heart felt feelings, cherish every moment , enjoy and observe the beauty of nature in every little form of it’s existence….

I sincerely hope and pray that I don’t loose my personal touch and all little pleasures of life to this monster in disguise of a blessing called “Technology”