In my growing years as a teen, suffering from a broken home and extreme lack of focus, I was critical of humans; Oh! Not just humans but anything that can be criticized. With today’s technology, we have even become more retracted than ever. We emerge in internet-ary, alleviate fears with calls to “pals,” fill in our voids with text messages – the result?
Depreciated human relationships.
We as a generation have lost touch with humanity. In which I mean, we can’t understand how to genuinely love, hate, be affectionate, console, compliment or show regular human emotions. Now, we are more comfortable with social-networks and IMs, we understand the language of a/s/l (age, sex, location), lol (laugh out loud), ttyl (talk to you later), ilu (I love you), hashtags and “Like” buttons, more than physical interaction. We can’t appreciate ourselves anymore, we take ourselves for granted and abuse ourselves, and other human’s existence.
For we who are willing to stand out; willing to touch the human nature, willing to return to the originality of our emotions – forsake the [inter]net-motion, transfer the net-affection to human affections. How much do you express gratitude to others? How often do you compliment? Do you truly adore human’s uniqueness? Do you care about others? Do you tolerate others? Imagine how much better you would feel if you were truly loved, truly appreciated, truly adored or truly complimented. This is a call to make it start from you.
Begin the chain of happiness, share it, show joy to others, and bring kindness with you wherever you are. Irrespective of situations, sincerely cater for others need. As infectious as your emotions began to get, there is enough of true emotions to go around.
I have found that there is no greater connection to souls than this: The more you give; the more you will receive.
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I hear the whole Internet made me more isolated story and I dig it. But for someone whose been online for almost 15 years now, I can say that the Internet helped me meet/get to know/ IRL the people I always knew existed, but were never close to me.
Twitter: delomos
says:
I can't agree any less. It simply bothers me on how it's replacing physical interaction; I believe it SHOULD aid not replace.
Perhaps it's the musician in you that seeks to draw people out in community. I wonder if it's replacing physical interaction or if those people who were home alone late at night, find people to connect to? I live in a small town so I know firsthand how the Internet helped me to connect to others and meet in person. I think the city is a much different experience where some may prefer the monitor to human interaction.
Twitter: delomos
says:
I should add that I find meetup.com and craigslist.com local's section great. In the city, I think the internet should be a better aid, unfortunately, as you mentioned, late night might prevent that from happening–It's still no excuse though.
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