The kids were playing nicely -- on their respective parents cell phones. All the kids were sitting the same room but there were no toys around. They were not playing with each other, for that matter not even looking at each other. Each one was totally engrossed in their cell phones, playing some game. The parents were more than happy to lend their cell phones to the little ones as long as an hour of yap time was ensured.
Far from our days when meeting cousins or kids of the the same age was good enough a reason to raise hell. Playing outside in the backyard continued until parents threatened to break our legs.
That really reminded me of how much our day to day life is now dependent on the digital instruments. My nephew has very subtly captured it here. Today we have items to do some things which leave me totally stunned --
- Usage of digital toothbrush is one of them. How can one be so tired / bored of brushing their teeth that they need a tool to do that?
- Or for that matter, how many of us remember the route to the friend's new home that we visited a few days back? GPS and Mapquest has reduced the sense of direction to a mere history.
- The art of remembering TO-DO's has been made dispensable by presence of reminders on cell phones and organizers.
- Kids have forgotten what it meant to play like zombies during summer vacations and instead play uno / car racing and cricket online via internet, sitting in the cozy comforts of their rooms.
How ironical that digital inventions that were supposed to make our life better is actually making us dumb and obsolete?
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