I have the best laugh on
My own
I don't need someone to
Make myself happy.
Sad but true, victims we are
Of our own lifestyle
It is strange how we have in my opinion compressed the world and shrunk it to explore. They say everything is a click away and there was a time when just a click would capture memories that now lie untouched, withering away in a dark corner of the cupboard . When the day you decide to go through it you see the memories so stuck to the page that held them for years that you actually tear it apart if you need to separate it and this separation leads a scar on the photograph telling you it hurts to stay away. The colours fade and all we do is either try to retrieve it or keep it away but what stays back is the memory of that which was once a capture by a click. Today we seem very busy on the so call advancement and modern inventions of this fast pacing world. We live our entire day busy on gadgets and strange it is but true that we feel so connected with everything but actually we are not. There is nothing that we cannot explore or do or experience now sitting in the comfort of our homes. We are virtually present for everything as we have that one click of our finger that can take you wherever you want. Isn't it so convenient and are we not so blessed that we have improved and advanced in our lifestyle. We just scroll up and down to find and the answers are right there.
The click has taken away a lot and yet given so much to us. Life has become so convenient and the chats so available but what is left is the experience of personally being present. I know life is not the same anymore, there is so much to do and so little time even though they say the click ' saves time and energy,' and still we fall back, there is so much work pending and we keep rushing our meals, our rest and our lives. What if you had to stand in a que to buy something, or pay a bill or wait for your turn for everything. I am sure standing in ques at a store when you go to shop is so irritating and so exhausting for each one of us that we prefer being online and get everything just by a click. I am sure you will call me old school , but yes I feel having the experience of both that we have forgotten to balance out lives.
There are times when all are at home or even in a party or a gathering, when I see so many busy on their gadgets with fingers scrolling and eyes glued, oblivious of what is going on around them. We do not attend anything because we are busy on a call that we miss the moment or make others wait till we finish. We are so busy capturing the moment with the click that we being present cannot see it happening live. We all exchange the pictures and the moment with each other that we watch it later when we are free. We are present to capture the moment not to live it. This click is constantly with us , we click and store and share rather than enjoying what we are there for. The first bite needs to wait as we need to click what we ate and the compliments can be online when we click ourselves to know what people comment on that one selfie that we shared. We are together but that is a great moment to capture because when we are with each other we are busy with the click. We look at ourselves when we click and appreciate how we look. We are more with ourselves trying to understand life and it's philosophy online rather than living it. We have learn to laugh, talk, console, celebrate, eat, dance, hangout, diagnose, treat and capture happiness and love just by one click.
The picture tore itself apart when seperated from what was with her in the dark gloomy place, which had been with her and worn out with her in these years. Imagine what you preserve never stays, it too perishes away then how do you expect there be life when you are not living it in the present. I hope this will click that which is better to be understood rather than to kept as a memory to see or live later.
By
Mansi Chaturvedi
(She is published writer of the book Shades Of Solitude who being a homemaker has used her time for her passion for writing. She has had her work published as Co author by Exceller and Oxford Publication, Shubharambh Publication and her very own book as author by Writersgram Publication. She is active participant on platforms like StoryMirror and has her own blog Pennedconnections.wordpress.com where she connects with the world by her words.)
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