It was a devastating!!! Our computer crashed, in an age where everything in our world is done on computer from working to chatting to writing to calculating to photographing to movie-making, it was a big blow to me.
Many months and many rounds of computer servicing centers and spending more than I earn in a month on its services, made life more miserable. Its been in coma now for 5 months, regaining its consciousness once in a month, when the service center is able to treat its problem and then it goes back into the coma state.
I felt sorry about loosing important data apart from pictures . Oh boy, life sometimes seems so easy without these complexities of new-age tech-savvy gadget gurus intruding life everywhere. Being under scrutiny all the time has never been tempting to me, but I feel enslaved to computers and Internet and now am so addicted to this, that life has come to standstill without my computer being with me. It is not a gadget for me but very much a part of my family. I hope and wish and pray for its miraculous recovery.
This took my thought process to another level. I realized its not only computers and internet that has plagued minds of most of the youth, but other technological innovations too. We can call it advancement, but isn’t it another form of slavery? Even to keep ourselves in shape, we are dependent on gymnasium equipments, what happened to our own power, bestowed by the flexibility of the body and determination of mind? No wonder this progression has helped in multi-tasking, reducing time to do things, making life easier in many ways, physical aspects on one hand has become far more relaxing, while the mental and psychological breakdown have made the physical pleasures seem trivial. Today “By the click of a mouse button” things across the globe are at our disposal, but still another form of mental taxation has only made day-to-day life more complex. Competition on one end brings out the best, healthy competition re-establish the faith in doing things properly and in a dignified manner, but on the other end, it also makes people restore to unfair means to achieve their goals, making the office rivalries a regular, nerve-wrecking affair. Isn’t this a slavery of a different kind? Are not we all enslaved to technology, to pressure, to stress, to dissatisfaction, to all mental traumas and pressures now more than ever in the history of mankind?
Life goes on with or without technical difficulties……….oh how I wish I was born in pre-historic times………Oh again the internet is not working and where do I go now………………..and frustration continues………..