WHAT WE LOST FROM OUR
LIFE IN TECHNOLOGICAL TORNADO…!!
I was writing some
important email that contains very scientific words & critical
terminologies having too many complicated spellings. I thank Microsoft’s
MS-OFFICE for providing spell check available, so I don’t have to worry about
wrong spellings, I will keep writing as long as I want and once I finish with
my entire writing I will just do spell check and simply replace the misspelled words!
Funny incident
happened with me, I was stuck at a word which even MS-OFFICE was not having any
suggestion, replace option or synonym…!!!
I had to get up and grab English
dictionary to find out tat particular word..!!!
Suddenly I realized
we almost stopped using the hardcore dictionary.. we usually don’t write with
pen & paper, hence there is no question of missing any spelling or writing
any wrong spelling..
As we keep writing in
MS-OFFICE or any editor we have a tendency to take extensive help from
available spell check. It has become business etiquette to do spell check
before we finalize any draft version of document (pardon me for doing the same while writing this article too)
This auto spell check
reduces our stress of writing but it really made us lazy while acquiring more
accuracy in writing..!!!!
I remember one
incidence happened in our office recently. A teammate was looked so tensed and
worried. Upon asking what has happened he explained that his mobile battery was
exhausted and he had to call his wife for some very important work.
I
immediately offered him my mobile and said he can return it to me after
finishing call with his wife.. to which he replied He had to put his OWN
SIMCARD in my mobile first because HE DID NOT REMEMBER HIS WIFE’S MOBILE NUMBER
and very difficult to recall her number. It was funny and strange thing for
me..!!
But then started thinking on my own about how many mobile numbers I do
recall at that instance..!!
The answer was horrifying
… I could hardly recall 4 numbers…!!
How that happened?
In our childhood when
we were not having mobiles those days I was known as a kid that holds sharp
memory.. I could easily memorize phone numbers and able to recall almost 100
plus telephone numbers…!!
While enjoying fruits
of great and amazing technological tornados we have really lost many things from
our life in this process..!!! I got many things that have been affected due to
excess use of technological equipments or electronic gadgets.
1. We almost forgot art of writing using pen &
paper.
2. We forgot to visit post office to post handwritten
letters.
3. We don’t bother spelling mistakes, either we use
spell checks or take help of abbreviation where we don’t know the actual
spelling.
4. We stay online, maximum time of the day connected
to internet, keep posting status messages like “Have a Good day, Keep smiling,
it doesn’t cost anything & always stay motivated etc,.”
BUT what we do in
reality..???
Forget about using these sweet words and greeting others, we even don’t
bother to look at the person who is standing beside us in lift.!!!
5. We prefer to stay away due to strong doubt in our
mind when we see people with worn clothes or poor people which stand out of
churches, temples or bus stops.
BUT .......
we don’t hesitate to check stranger’s
profiles on facebook, twitter or orkut..!!
6. We easily spend approximately 100 Rs to buy two
popcorns while watching a worthless movie in multiplex by purchasing a ticket
of 300 Rs..
BUT
......we don’t care to give 10 Rs to a boy standing at the signal
cleaning windows of cars in chilled winter.!!
We don’t like when these boys come closure to
our cars and we shout at them angrily..!
7. We don’t bargain to pay 3000 Rs for a shirt in
star mall (even if that really cost us 1000
if we purchase in small shops)
BUT
.....when we go for visiting some historical
place we waste time and keep bargaining for a cup of Tea at roadside tea stall.
We don’t want to pay 15 Rs for a cup of tea. We don’t even think of that poor
person’s efforts to run that stall at the top of the mountains, how he sweat
while taking heavy loads or raw material from base to top of the fort!! We don’t
care that he is doing this to run his family basic expenses..!!
Are
we really going global..???
Are
we really getting closure to each other..???
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| Universal brotherhood |
Is this GLOBALIZATION taking all the
verticals of society together to the success & happiness..??
Is every corner of
the society getting benefited by this new technological growth..?
How can a poor person
creates, publishes, maintains his orkut, facebook or twitter account when he is
struggling in earning his daily wages and look worried about next days work..??
Technologically what
concern do we have for this class of society..???
Is this real
GROWTH..???
All classes of
society, each & everyone from low level poor class to high level rich class
are getting peace, happiness, harmony & success. They all live together without
any discrimination based on poverty, money..!
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| Globalization |
This is real growth according to
me.!!!!
We are waiting for
this day to arrive & we should do active efforts to precisely take all class of the society ahead to the success....
We all must strive to get this done..!!!
