12 October 2019

Blog Marathon - Post 12 - Random thoughts

It's one of those days when you feel very low for no reason. Your day has been fantastic, the sun is shining after a week of rainy weather, and still, you feel bleak, heavy and murky inside. You try to find the reason behind this untimely sadness, but don't find any concrete one. You decide to let it be and enjoy the moments of silence with yourself. You hope that tomorrow will be better and the sadness would have made way to a better mood. I realized today that the sunny weather outside doesn't really make you feel the same on the inside.
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I think after a few decades, human beings will lose the ability to talk. They will be able to communicate only with the help of gadgets and screens. Every person in almost every household is hooked to a screen, anywhere you look around. There is hardly any communication between families now. Kids are hooked to online games, parents on their office laptops and mobiles. Transportation to a different and virtual world is a way of escapism, I think. People in flesh and blood around are overlooked and given the least importance, but the people in the virtual world look enticing. With less and less of words around the human being, we will soon lose the languages and the ability to express ourselves verbally.



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