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The connection that brought disconnection



One would bet with their soul that the constant introductions of new and improved ways of communication have ameliorated our communication skills, but the hideous truth is actually the opposite.

We currently live in the fast paced world of convenience ie. Apps, social media and all forms of efficient ways to convey messages and receive them but all that convenience was translated or misinterpreted as inconvenience to the human race, by the human race. All these innovative ideas of ameliorating communication, which eventually manifested have actually done the opposite of what was anticipated.

They've succeeded in bringing us closer to people who are miles away from us, but have created a distance between people who are just a look away from one another. How odd. Every country in the world would've been in the same category - that is under the category of developed countries, but the innovative ways of communication have been utilized for perpetuating hate and all kinds of negativity, even worse they've been used as a scapegoat for eschewing any form of interaction or communication with other humans.

In public spaces, you often find humans' palms engulfing their smartphones, with headsets playing the role of auditory tools' lids, all that is a non-verbal way of saying "keep away". In these current times, I'm certain that a preponderance of humans would choose to spend their lifetime with smartphones over dogs and fellow humans.

We've become emotionally attached to objects that don't compromise emotions nor a single sense. I see fit to conclude that we've utterly defeated the sole purpose of innovative ways that technology has introduced in order to ameliorate communication and make the world an extremely convenient place to be for live humans.

 We cannot dispute the fact that smartphones are the most convenient objects of our generation. However, we cannot turn a blind eye to the disconnection that is being perpetuated through the same devices that were invented to make communication easier. Lack of focus is one of the struggles of this generation.

We are drowning in this false belief that we're excellent multi-taskers while we do so much but achieve little or nothing at all or, even worse our attempts attempts to multi-task ends up destroying lives considering the deaths due to driving and texting or walking and texting. These days, physical interaction or face to face conversations are consanguineous to blasphemy.

We would jump from Facebook, to Twitter, then Instagram to WhatsApp but we fail to jump from subject to subject in a face to face conservation with our interlocutors. Our subconscious minds have also been trained to seek happiness from the external world by feeling the need to broadcast our little achievements, post photos of us eating at vaunted restaurants, take mirror selfies just to show society that we can afford Steve Jobs' end devices.

These technological developments were created with the devout goal to ameliorate our lives and take our communication to the top of Mount Everest but it seems like the opposite of what was anticipated manifested because we've lost the balance of life through being emotionally attached to these physical objects.

We've become so focused on consistently keeping in contact with the cyber world but being in utter oblivion of how we're tardily disconnecting with the real world, mostly with ourselves.

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