Technology has taken deep roots in our daily life. It would not be false if I say, it has taken over us. Be it your mobile, computer, TV, wifi, bikes, cars, or similar materialistic things. Your holidays are no more peaceful holidays, they are constant exchange of text, pics, news, and information. The mind never is at peace when awake. It is struggling to keep with huge amount of information, most of that it cant process or do not require at the first place. One should ask a simple question, do I really need this much information or resources to live a peaceful life. Is it not a peer pressure to keep up the things, most of which you don't require. The mobile phone with most of us today are powerful gadgets with huge capacity to do many things. They are even better than most of the efficient people on earth today. A phone is not merely a phone, but much more than that, it's your camera, social connection, news point, and professional need. Imagine the number of photos clicked by a single person in a month, which is enormously high than it was five years back. We are generating so much digital content and most of it is useless. The question which continuously bothers me is - do I really need this much of technology invasion in my life? We are being controlled by them, tapping every moment and action of our life. In earlier times, people used to have an office and personal number. I feel, now we need to have phones which can be switched to home, office, or social. But, the simple problem with us is that most of us do not want to segregate and declutter this mess. They are happy to mix these phases, doing social life in office, doing office life at home and some might be doing home life in office. The ugly truth is that its slowly affecting the society. People are more active on digital platform than real life, which is kind of isolating them. The bad future of this will be total absence of real social life, which can kill the concept of human being a social animal. In all of this, I am not even counting the associated health hazards. I wish that there should be certain guidelines to direct people to this issue. Declutter your current life and keep only the bare minimum, which gives you the ultimate peace. Other way of doing it is to keep different parts of life separate, which some of us might be doing. There is no logic of mixing your personal, social and professional life unless one doesn't realize or acknowledge their existence.
One of the good point about Gandhi Ji was that his mind was restless. He always tried something new, he never was contented with his present. He never thought once in his life that he is settled, at peace and satisfied. I think this is one of the many reasons that he was a great person. He never tried to hide his mistakes/faults. He denied primary education to his children, his elder son was very unhappy with him for this. Unfortunately, this was also one of his experiment with life. But many of his other experiments like cleanliness, ahinsa were globally appreciated and accepted. So, don't stop yourself from experimenting, just because of the fear of failing or non-acceptance by society. I agree there is risk, but risk is there in anything and everything in life, the only difference is our faith in the outcome. We are generally happy in taking those calculative risk, where the results are more or less favorable. Challenging yourself is the best thing a person can do all his life...
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