Gadgets.. Killers!!

Gone are those days when people interact more with people. Here are the days when a human being in the mask of being a social being is actually getting closer to being in his/her own self. To get the reviews about something, we used to talk to people who have been there or get in touch with people who know about what we are seeking reviews on and thus be in touch with our friends or make new friends as the case may be. But now, all we have to do is open a damn site and check the reviews. I have once seen people meeting over a coffee to chit chat when bored. Now, its all through WhatsApp or some other chat engines. What are we being? social?? Really??

Technology to some extent has done a great deal to humanity. Cell phones for instance have revolutionized communications. If we had been satisfied by that, we wouldn't be in smart phone era where we can open maps and navigate easily to required destination at places we are not acquainted with.. Neither would planning a trip have been so easier through various applications on the phones. But, how many of us are using the smart phones, ipads, touch pads, notepads or God knows what ever gadgets to just getting our work done? Earlier when people sit before a desktop, we know they are working or busy or occupied with something. But now, the killers are being carried everywhere.. while eating, watching tv, conversing, playing, working out.. where not! just literally everywhere and at all times.. With one of those in our hands, its tough for someone else physically before you, talking to you to know whether u are actually listening to them or lost in your world. 

How much ever I appreciate the convenience they bring in, I am beginning to hate them for what we are turning into. I am afraid, we will soon lose ourselves to them.. 

Choice!

Life is mostly about choice. We have to make various choices at each and every phase of life. There are a few we can make quite easily, while a few others require a lot of thought processing. Most of the choices in my childhood were taken care of by my parents. I really did not realize how much work gets into each of those that were spoon fed to me. It was only after I stepped into my engineering that I started making my own choices, of course after discussing with my parents. 

Now that I am a parent, I see every choice that we make for the kids is life making to them. It starts right from naming the kid. That is something they will carry for the rest of their life. They will have a choice to change it later on, but we don't consider that possibility while naming them. Picking a school for the kid has become an even more tough task. Each of us have our own set of criteria as to what kind of school we want our kids to study in. Nothing is perfect. Nothing can ever be exactly like how you want it to be. We can only get the one that is closest to what we want. But again, how much ever we choose and pick the best of the available options to us, there are a whole bunch of variables which can turn our choice into a good one or a bad one. Like for instance we pick a school that is best in the interest of our kid, there are various sections for a particular class and the allotment into the section is totally random. How do we know whether we are going to like the teacher who teaches them? I don't want to say the best teacher, especially today being teachers day, because every teacher is good. It is just that we feel better with some of them around due to matching ideologies. How do we know about the classmates? Certain things which we cannot choose, have to be left to destiny! 

I wish there were CC cameras in every class and we can get to see them at their office room after taking appointment. That way we can stay with our children during the time we are away from them. We can know exactly what they are going through. I know I am being a little too apprehensive here. Every parent has to go through this phase and hope the child learns only the good stuff irrespective of the company she is in. Its time to let the bird begin to fly.. and watch its back!