Our lower grade text books taught us “Get up early, brush
your teeth,drink water blah blah….”.The
modern day manifestation of this is something like “Get up at whatever time
you wish,Open your mobile ,check for whatzapp ,we chat messages,check Facebook
account,check mails…..etc”.I can see you people nodding your heads in agreement
while you read this :-p
This post is meant
to celebrate our addiction to “Screens” .Read along to find out how much you fit in this scenario..
Let us examine a typical day in the life of so called modern professional.
1)
Get up ,check your mobile err Smartphone for whatzapp/we chat/ messages;
2)
Fresh up yourself-now check mails from the “n”
number of email accounts you might have
opened.
3)
Go to office-check official mails for a while
and then switch to Facebook
4)
Like and comment stuff on Facebook and then
switch to twitter.
5)
Then open TOI(Times of India) or any other
newspaper and get acquainted with what is going on in the world…
6)
Then do some office work…get bored and reopen
Facebook
7)
Harvest some crops on Facebook(Farmville) or
Solve some criminal cases
8)
Keep on refreshing Facebook for new feeds to
pop-in
9)
Else hook on to Reddit/Quora or start reading
blogs
10)
Wrap up work
get into company cab/bus and
start playing Temple run or Fruitninja or Angry birds
11)
Reach home…switch on TV or watch series…or go to a
theater to watch a movie
12)
Check again to see if there is anything on the social
networking sites…
13)
Sleep
14)
Repeat 1-14
Right from the time we get up till we sleep we are addicted to screens.
Different screen sizes( viz smartphones,laptops,T.V.,Multiplex screens) have
enslaved us.Unknowingly we have become the victims of a new kind of slavery called Screen Slavery.
I wonder how obsessed we have become with all these. We just can’t live
without these.Be it in the name of socializing,entertainment,or information
procurement we are just glued to them. While on the contrary we were the same
people who have had a happy life without all these.But now all these have
become an utter necessity.One can’t imagine his/her life without these…
Just cut down on screens for a while everyday, you will have time to do some creative stuff. Life will be calmer and peaceful. You can actually socialize in person than on social networking sites.Your bonds might get strengthened. Instead of reading Inspirational stories and Quotes on Facebook,get out and start doing stuff.You may become more focused on your
goals and success might embrace you sooner.
Let us stop being an e-zombie.Let us free ourselves from the “Screen-Slavery”.
I end this post with this beautiful video that covers the gist of the post
