How gadgets are acting as a slow poison in your life?

One fine morning, You are meditating and suddenly you feel a vibration on your wrist. It's your smartwatch was alerting you of an incoming message. Didn't you leave your phone at home to not feel 'connected’? Yes, there is an option that allows you to not receive any calls/text messages on your watch.

But then, you are as addicted as anyone else are to be connected with the world so much so, that you have often advised people to not get a car which doesn’t support good connectivity. And with the recent boom of ’connected’ cars entering the Indian market, life seems to be spreading its wings higher and broader.

But what is it doing to us? To constantly have gadgets on us that with two taps of a finger can get you in touch with anyone, anywhere in the world. If you want to see where your friends are at or what is happening in their lives, You just need to view their stories on Instagram or Snapchat. Your conversations have drastically reduced with many people. You do not need any updates on their lives and nor do you have to provide any in return. It is all there for you to see, and months go by without saying a word.

You canon agree more that being connected gives you a feeling of security, but it also makes you feel that you have started to avoid human interaction subconsciously. If you want to search for a route for your destination, you needn’t ask a passerby. Your eyes are darting to and fro from the navigation screen to the road you are walking on. Isn’t being lost on a journey, an adventure?

You soon realise how increased connectivity in any form has brought stress into our lives. Bolder than ever. Only this time we are inviting the monster through the front door.

Have you ever noticed how friends chatting through the day on their phones have not much to say to each other, when in person? Often, to bridge the deep gorges in their conversations, mobiles are pulled out to click selfies with filters that can transform you into a cat one moment, and to a dog licking the phone’s screen, in the next. Conversations look more fun on the screen than looking at the person sitting opposite you.

Connectivity has become oxygen for all of us. If we were to unplug it, we’d be struggling for air. The addiction is real and that worrisome. You must have started to feel oversaturated with information trickling in from all corners. Your mind often lingers to the times when there were a limited number of gadgets to use and learning new things was exciting as opposed to today where you may search for something and forget about it the next moment.

Being connected slowly lowers your confidence. You doubt your skills of survival if you are not connected to somebody. The convenience of being connected is wrapping its warm hands around your smiling face. Being Connected is acting as a slow poison in our lives. You cannot disconnect yourself completely but you can surely restrict and limit yourself.