Make-believe

When I look at my life a couple of years back, I remember a healthy smile, radiating in energy and positivity. I hung out with real people, real friends. We shared stories and laughed with each other.

When I look at my life now, I see it in a squared screen, looking back at me; reflecting the perfect image I edited for myself.

When digital cameras first made appearance in the beginning of two hundred and technology year, I was the first to inform my opinion. To be exact, I told my brothers, who were quite excited about it, that now we won’t have our memories felt. We won’t be able to touch those photographs and feel them.

My presentiment toward this kind of living started at that point, I believe. The social media had managed to fulfill the empty lives of certain mass in the community. The way it invaded our lives and minds is a hidden tragedy that non of us recognize yet.

Sensing another human being now is almost impossible. The way we interact with people has become through touch screens and buttons, emails and pins, tweets and posts.

We became overly hooked to our gadgets that now, we are unable to socialize in real life.

The images you create for yourself through social media will eventually get to you. When you look at the lives of others, and what they’ve accomplished by posting them on their wall, you feel less important and thus, will eat you bit by bit.

Deep down, you will start feeling hatred, jealousy and envy of those people. If could be from your circle of friends, or family, or even people you don't know, you start comparing your life to theirs. Eventually it will drive you insane, and you notice you’re crying for attention from others by impressing them of what you have, or what you're doing on daily bases.

Ultimately, these ideas will intoxicate your brains.

Did you ever sit with a group of friends, and felt you're a stranger among them? Something tells me that if we're not always busy with our gadgets, we're incomplete, and empty. Without our digital words, and topics, we are unable to control the subjects we’re going to talk about. 

We grew so occupied with these gadgets, preoccupying us from our creative selves. I don’t know about you, but I know that the simplest things like holding a pin, and writing down thoughts in a journal instead of typing them on my phone, makes me feel that my brain cells and my hand are connected together in order to deliver the message through the felt paper. The same thing happens when drawing, looking at photos, or having face-to-face conversations with another friend. Doesn’t it make you feel less detached from your being?

What happened to the days where hide and seek was the ultimate game? What about washing your father's car just for fun, wasn't it a fun thing to do? Coloring books? Puzzle? UNO? Making up stories to act them with your friends, or cousins? I feel like the younger generation is already lost in their iPads.

What are we? I don't know anymore. Our souls are lost in the virtual world.

Since when do we delete friends and family with a click of a button? Is it just another act of weakness and loneliness? Do we really want to avoid our lives for the sake of a small, meaningless gadget?

We’re depending on technology more and more, and depending much less on ourselves.

As a friend once said, “everyone is connected, but no one is connected. The human element has long been missing.”

And I couldn’t agree more.