It is a gloomy day with fogs forcing the sun to hide underneath the clouds. As gloomy as the day, betrayal and selfishness is in the wind. And sometimes I wish to fight it back but my second thought always forces me to let it go…. So, as I was thinking whether I can be “really really” happy for any reason. I found one: I was born before technology took over my past days. And it is indeed a real good reason to be happy. Dear Diary it is not as simple as it sounds. When I was a kid, I had the chance of being a shopkeeper; also a mother and let the sun go down playing those roles with my friends happily. I also had the pleasure of playing seven stones and the so call “David, Goliath” during recess and even after school. In my teens, my leisure times were extended only to reading books and visiting friends. Moreover I am glad that I experience typing in type writer which I did to help dad sometimes. Then I got my first cell phone only in the early days of my college life, a small Nokia phone. Smart phones were still in a distant dream at that time and perhaps it was in some genius mind in the process of inventing. These are moments to be cherished and worth counting as a reason to be happy because technology have completely turned the world upside down now.
Now things are just a touch away, just a slide away that it has become too much for human relationships. You are lonely and you get a lot of sympathies in a virtual world but in reality everyone is busy. You want to have the fun of shopping together but online shopping has made your desires an age old shopping tradition. You want to go on a real date but video calls are too simple to ignore a real face to face conversation. You want to chill out and feel the air but believe me the virtual world will take you all over the world in few minutes that you forget you really need a break. You want to feel the spirit of corporate worship but you have many charismatic preachers in your screen, so you relax at home listening to their sermons and ignore your first thought of worship. People say technology makes life easier, I too agree but…Diary, life was more beautiful before technology completely took and I am glad that my childhood days were like the sun that is shining brightly now after racing the clouds.
Sentinaro Longkumer, CTC.
