Skip to main content

Fast Forward Life

Life seems to move so fast now. I don’t know if age has something to do with it but that probably plays a minute role. Technology has changed the way people live their lives and how they interact with each other. It’s not just rampant social networking sites, or the vernacular mobile phones and the all-encompassing multimedia internet. It’s also about the way we think, how we travel, what we eat and drink, how we go through our daily lives and what we think of the future and how we deal with today.

It all seems as if the way things were from a decade ago was from a completely different era and a different generation of men. It was when the internet was fairly young, when mobile phones weren’t so common and when there weren’t a lot of coffee shops around. It’s not that life were simpler then, it was already fast-paced but this time everything seems to change and move light years ahead.
The things that people used to do in a few years, they seem to be doing in a few months. Take for example how much one can travel. Just a few years ago, a typical person would limit their travels to maybe a few times a year due to how much it costs and inaccessibility. Now, buying a plane ticket is as easy (and sometimes as cheap) as buying a movie ticket. Going to different destinations (from different provinces to different countries) is as convenient now as if just going to another part of the city. People are more open to going to places, the destinations are now more accommodating and more inviting and with the modes of transportation being more and more convenient and accessible – travelling is a normal part of our lives.

Getting in touch is no way near how it used to be. Before we go through lengths just to get a short message to that certain loved one on the other side of world, paying a high premium on how it is transmitted. Now, it seems we are trying so hard to escape each other from too much communication and an always connected life. It is difficult not to get connected to your family. There are no more excuse with the always available internet, mobile phones and a certain blue bird.

One can get connected from anywhere, but most of the time through coffee shops which by the way has sprung up like multicolored mushrooms everywhere. They’re spread is almost viral in that a street corner could house several of them catering to people from every walks of life. These places aren’t actually the catalyst of change but a representative of how much we ourselves have changed. Life has become more urbanized and people have welcomed more socializing (physically or virtually).

We have changed a lot since all of the technological improvements. We’ve changed everything not just how we live the day but how we view tomorrow as well. The future now seems more varied than before. Linear thinking for this context has almost diminished into narrow-mindedness. Whether we look at the future with gloom or with bright-eyes, it is certainly more colorful. Maybe that is why we are trying so hard to fast forward to it, making our lives change faster trying to lead or catch up with everyone else who wants that future now.


In any case, these are the lives we all go through now. 


--- 
creation date: 2010-11-22
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A World of Clowns

clowns. what do they represent? --- clowns have always been scary for me. i don't really have any bad experiences with them when i was younger. quite frankly, i never really have that much chance to meet them. yet, i can still get terrified with them. subconsiously, it might not be how they look like or how they act that scares me. it's what they represent. --- when you see a clown, you see exaggerated features of happy or sad faces. to most children both the sad and happy clowns are still funny. the faces clearly express their intended emotion. the really pale makeup excessively enhances the already large smiling or pouting lips and subtly hides the eyes. it is a mask. the clown wears a mask that hides the true disposition of the person. the clown may look happy or sad but you have no idea what he might be feeling. quite an effective mask. it is, however, a different kind of mask. for other masks just hides the face and the emotions behind. they are mostly ne...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Certain Uncertainty

Life is full of twists and turns, with too much change and too little permanence, and too unpredictable. Just when you thought you’ve figured it all out, the world turns upside down. Just when you’ve readied yourself for changes about to come, it settles down and quiets itself. It makes planning your life both skill and luck. What makes living in this world quite interesting is that even if you don’t have any choice where and how you start out, you’ll never be quite sure where you’ll end up. No one, obviously, had any choice whose parents they will be born from. You weren’t allowed to choose which country to be born at, or what time or which conditions. We were just brought here, into this world by some universal scheme that could be attributed to combination of exchange of genes, chance encounters, long-winded decisions; and for some people, divine intervention. Whether you want it or not, or whether it was due to some accidental online dating or arranged marriage, you were b...
Post a Comment
Read more

If It is Alright

For as long as i can remember, i have always been afraid of people, of change and of life in general. If i could have hidden from everyone and died off from the eyes of the world, i would have. Everything around me seemed like a threat to my being. With no apparent reason, my surroundings felt like a kaleidoscope of colors with ulterior motives bent on hurting me. I never felt comfortable. Despite all of that, i have led my life as if things were okay, as if my fears did not matter.   So, i tried.   Through all the days that never seem to end, i have grown tired, exhausted from pretending i was fine,    all spent from hoping things will turn normal.   I have not changed, not at all. Things are exactly as i remember them when i was younger, the exact same   way that i used to see them. All my efforts and hopes to live in a world where i do not have to fear tomorrow have never managed a dent from my idiosyncrasy. Maybe i was never really mea...
Post a Comment
Read more