The way the life has turned has compelled us to keep using social media. The web of people around, maybe in physical sense has reduced, but, the connections over the internet, its usage and requirement to be and stay connected are increasing to a lot extent.
Now, I am a person who likes to keep exploring technology, but, of late, this is seriously becoming tiring yet unstoppable. Know this and that and keep using it. Keep yourself updated, look good, stay positive and keep doing it, irrespective of whether it is making any sense or not, is seriously bothering! Why? What is the damn objective that we are trying to accomplish? Or this is a part of the chaotic now?
Where are we heading? I know certain things are beyond our control, but, the way technology is creeping and digging its roots into our lives make me ponder.
Is it really going to be what we would be doing in the future - whatsapp calls, google meet, zoom, skype, facebook and what not? Will that become the only way to connect? The only way to reach people?
Now even posting seems like, am I trying to get social approval? The Likes? Comments? Do they really change you? No, you still remain the same beautiful you.
I remember I had seen a short film where the lead character was faking her life to be liked on social media, posting so many photos to attract attention, and now, even when I post anything, I am taken back to the film. I am definitely not seeking anybody's approval. Yet, it comes to my thought that who is in what mental state and what my post may cause them to think? Yet, making me think that I am thinking too much. Still there would be times when my words are questioned and so is my silence.
I have seriously started missing those walks, drives, face to face talks, the warmth and belongingness that those physical moments used to create. When we could talk for hours without worrying over the costs, where we can enjoy the nature, the talks, the silence and the presence of somebody along, irrespective of the silence. That was not for any show, not for any approval, but just because we would enjoy the presence of the other person.
Even those who are not social have experienced this. This I say from some personal associations.
These days, silence is misunderstood, goes unregistered and people feel whether you do bother or not? And of course the issue of the mismanaged time that the work from home schedule has created.
I wonder if any of the reader experienced the same? The way we are connected - for the sake of being in contact and not actually connected.
The days becoming weeks, weeks becoming months and months soon would turn to year. This lockdown has seriously brought changes to the lives. Some of it is beyond understanding as of now.
The race to prove our worth, to be updated, to become advanced, the longed approval from the authoritarian power structures, the dominating technology and the struggles one undergoes. The way projections are made, the issues falling on deaf ears, unreasonable solutions. I wonder where mankind is moving?
Wish there would be a time machine to travel to those times when technology was just an element, not the sole need for life. We are sandwiched between the blessed primitive times of the past and the uncertain advanced future, know that all you have is here and now.
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