Is Technology driving us forward or backward?

Technology can be a wonderful thing but it can also be our downfall. How? For the mere fact that this very technology that we seek to make our life less complicated and manual has in turn managed us to make us rely on this technology so badly that in their absence, we find ourselves absolutely weak and incapable of doing the simplest task as we have forgot to apply manual labor. The most adverse effect of this obsession with technology has taken by our bodies. Today almost eighty percent of us humans are suffering from diseases that sprouted just out of our unhealthy and lazy lifestyle.  There was a time when you had to walk to post a Christmas card for your friends and family but today it can be done sitting in a couch and with couple of clicks. Many such short advantages are piling on making us weaker and weaker daily.

 

A couple of days ago I went visiting my dad who is an absolute car fanatic. Anything to do with cars and he would instantly brighten up. He also possessed a passion for old school cars which run on manual strength. Those hard and adamant gear stick run cars. My dad had challenged me to ride one of those manual run cars and to my embarrassment learnt that my twenty years of driving experience could not help me drive these cars even for one block without struggling and looking like a first time driver. The fact is that I have been used to that one push automatic gear changes that my whole body couldn’t cope with that extra effort required to push forward the gear stick. As expected for two days my hands ached as if it had been run over by a truck. This may have been an odd incident but it only showed me how fragile and weak I have become relying on these technologies.

 

Though I had come from a generation that started out with at least some form of physical activities, this generation has hardly ever seen it and the little stint with the manual car gave me the epiphany that though my time aged bones would take an awful lot of time to recover from lethargy, it was not late for my daughter and hence I made her sit down and explained the importance of having to build a healthy lifestyle and good physical strength. Though she might have been too young to understand half of what I had to say, she was at least more than happy to try yoga with me. Though there might have been a little incentive in there. To get my daughter more excited about yoga I had to actually sit through searching for girls athletic wear, especially girls yoga clothes to grab a fitting one for my daughter so that she could try yoga for the sake of wearing these new clothes. In spite of that little incentive I am happy that my daughter has finally picked up on yoga and has stared following it religiously.

 

Yes technology is a great advantage but we have to be cautious about not making it one of the disadvantages in our life.

 

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