When we think about our childhood
and compare it with today’s children, we will realise how different it is. Now,
to think about it, I wonder how I really spent my childhood. There was no
mobile phones, no laptop, no iPad, and especially there was no internet. I
remember my grandfather writing inland letters to his daughters in Delhi and
Mumbai from a small town. Once a week, they will talk to each other on the
fixed line phones.
As a child, I would sit next to
my grandfather writing letters and I will wait for him to finish to add a line
or two in the end. And I would spend most of my time playing with the other
kids on the roads and sometimes watching cartoon in TV. The kids of today are
too busy teaching gadgets and technology to their parents who are from a
different world. Though they rarely go out and play with other kids of their
age, they do virtual gaming. It may sound very different to us, but the world
has changed. Has it changed for good is a question to ponder.
With every technological advance,
there are pros and cons. The world of internet has brought in a lot of perks.
Earlier, if we move from one city to another, we are certain that we will never
be able to meet our friends. And we will hope that someday in the future, we
will be able to meet. But now, the world isn’t the same. Even if we move every
now and then, we are connected through the internet. We are in touch with each
and every person we know. Even if we rarely talk with each other, we know what
is happening in their life. It gives us a satisfaction of knows what our peers
are up to and how their lives have turned out.
This gives us immense power to
not only stay in touch but conduct our businesses and lives through the social
media. Though there is a fear of invasion of privacy by hackers, we enjoy the
world we are in today. It is so much different from what it was fifty years
ago. What it will be fifty years from now is something to think about. The
technology has given us so much now, what it could provide us in the future
gives me hope.
There will be cure for all the so
called incurable diseases now. Who knows we will even go live in Mars. The
human population will take a giant leap in the way we live, if mankind settles
in Mars. All these makes me optimistic about the world we will leave behind.
Though we are spoiling our current planet by a lot of things, we have an option
that will provide a much better environment to live.
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