Reality of virtual world

The digital world has become closer to reality where we cannot even spend a few hours away from our gadgets. A few days back we had a cyclone hit in Tamilnadu and because of heavy rain and wind the power supply was cut off along with the internet connection. The lack of network connection for another few more days made all of us desperate to do something exciting apart from staring at the wall. The technology almost leads us to live a comfortable life of isolation. Individuals stay in their rooms with their smartphones for days and without these gadgets for just one day making all the people gather together and have a much livelier time by being together conversing and having fun. Everything that we do somehow is connected to being dependent on technology. Humans have almost forgotten a time when people lived without technology. People have lost the human touch and would prefer the 'likes' on Instagram rather than the one sincere compliment from an actual person. The way of life that we consider now also has become more monotonous with everyone glued to their phones and their laptops. Their working conditions have also changed and people sit in front of their laptops for hours to get the work done rather than having any physical activities which further leads to health problems.

Have we ever sat and wondered about the few questions that are troubling us? How many homes have a proper dinner together as a family? How many homes have a close relationship with each other knowing their likes and dislikes? How many families sit together in the evening and talk about the day? All these thoughts seem to have become so superficial and an utopian ideology.

The concept of life 10 years ago is different from now. In just a few years our lifestyle has completely changed and we have somewhat become slaves to technology. The novel " Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury talks about the sad reality of the present. People nowadays prefer to watch rather than read which has damaged their thinking ability. Reading and watching have a great difference between them. Reading a novel and watching a movie both gives different experience as the movie is an imagination of an unknown person brought to reality and it is watched by millions of people and all have the same thoughts but reading a book is different as it gives an individual perspective and their own experience with their imaginative creativity providing a lot of ideas creating a world of their own. The power to think increases as far as reading is alive and if not  then the brain starts to rust which will turn mechanical shortly.

The idea of life and reality has changed a lot. In this fast-moving world, we individuals do not have time for ourselves which makes us often forget about our unique identity. The stories told by our grandparents would be so adventurous and exciting which we could not find in the present world. Everything has changed and will continue to change and if we do not spend some time on personal thoughts then in a few years all the uniqueness that we have within ourselves will be wiped away changing them into robotic humans along with the actual machines. 

The digital world has contributed a lot to making human life better and we can only hope to use the technology for our own and not the other way around. We hope to be able to distinguish between the visual world and the real world which has been separated by a very thin line.