It was a usual Sunday, a day to rest. After breakfast I picked up my phone and rested against a pillow. My eyes began to twinge. I dabbed my eyes with my hands. Swollen eyes and iron red retina irks my mother who was sitting next to me watching all my actions I did with my eyes. As I was about to say something my mother questioned my mobile phone addiction and usage. She blamed the phone for my swollen eyes and drained mind. She is aware about my addiction with my cell phone. I began to think whether my Mom is right. Is it because of my mobile phone my eyes pain almost every morning? An idea struck my mind, how about a day without a cell phone, a day without bings and tings, could i survive a day without it. This experiment seemed difficult than I thought. I went to my room switched off my phone. It was truly exhilarating. After couple of hours or so, I began to worry. What if there is an important message or a call? What if somebody has mailed me? What if my friends have messaged me? Oh I miss the group chat. I forgot to read that article. So many questions and one answer go check your phone. Not even for a second I looked back or thought about my swollen eyes. I hurriedly went to my room and grabbed my mobile phone. This few-hour separation felt like million years. My experiment taught me nothing; frankly speaking I couldn’t even pass some hours, a day without it was out of my imaginations.
Today at this point of life where people should be surrounded with people we are surrounded with gadgets. My closest buddy is my cell phone. I spend most of my time either with phone or with a book. There is no time to interact to talk to people. We all are busy in our own worlds and our world thrives on the use of mobile phones. We are extremely attached to our gadgets and there seems no way out. This fascination has passed onto our young ones. Our younger generation is more inclined to new age technology. They are on a digital diet. My brother who is in seventh standard owns a mobile phone, when i was in seventh standard I didn’t even own a pencil. Our children who don’t even know the ABCD of life carry expensive digital devices with them, unaware of the repercussions it has on them. We are turning into digital robots, aren’t we, leaving behind all the activities humans used to do. Our eyes have stopped looking for new things as we have glued them with mobile phones. Who to be blamed, technology or we as humans who are responsible for overusing this invention.
We live in a country which has the second largest number of mobile phones due to its huge population. Technology was never made to drift us part but to make our living easy and comfortable. But we are humans the superior ones who know how to exploit or over use things that come to us. Mobile phones have become like our friendly “Genies” who can solve our all problems. We expect all our socio psychological attributes are being solely driven by a 4/5 inch device in our hand, that’s not the case. There is life beyond these gadgets which we must live. Our phones are minimizing our interactions and talks, let’s not let that happen. Digital infatuation is a potential hazard; let it not affect our children, our younger generation. Parents are requested let their children play cricket on field instead of playing it on online. Let them read and write instead of making clans. Let them think instead of using social networking sites. Let’s teach them the philosophy of life, beauty of nature and benefits of human interaction instead of going live and posting images and emotions. Life is beautiful with or without digital devices.