How Often Do We Talk?

Going through a traffic signal which was RED at the point I am discussing this scene, I saw three well dressed gentlemen sitting in a car, next to my car and all the three were engrossed in their mobile phone. All three of them were smiling but of course for separate reasons being provided to them by their Smartphone. The same thing was witnessed by me when I was on a beautiful hilltop where the point of pleasure among four persons sitting in front of me was to look at their Smartphone in an airy and chilled environment.

Let me pose a very simple question to all of you that how often do we talk? The spontaneous answer will be’ ALL THE TIME’ but we forget the medium through which we are communication which is our Smartphone.

Communication now a days has become distant, gone are the days when reading expressions on face of your loved ones was an art and one used to analyze the mood of the person in front of him/her without even one word said. These days ‘SMILEYS’ do it all. If you are angry post a red smiley, if you are happy post the one which has tears of happiness in the eyes, we have got options to express any mood through an emoji being endowed to us by our Smartphone.

Exposure is a mandate in the dynamic world of the day but is the amount of exposure we all are revealed to correct? We are in a world where face book tells us the location of our loved ones, where the ‘Last Seen’ tells us the routine undertaken by our near and dear ones.

Technology was once discovered for bringing the world closer, for knitting the relations but a matter of irony it is that the overuse of technology is doing the opposite of what it was discovered for. It has made people distant. Spending time on the screens for hours together seems so easy and talking to one another just for a span of ten minutes seems so tough.

There was a time when parents used to put their children to sleep by sharing a story with them adding on to their moral and ethical values, IPAD now a day’s does the same thing where a child at a very early age knows how to operate YouTube and listen to his/her favorite bed time story. Parents often complain about the child being extremely independent and not caring for anything but himself, it is high time to understand the root cause of the same.

Nothing can replace the importance of face to face communication where you can see and share the gestures of love and care with one another. Communication is the only way to grow, to develop and to enhance your skills. Technology is just a way to assist communication which is mistaken as communication in the present scenario.

So the next time the question, ‘How often do we talk?’ is posed I would like you all to stop, think and then answer.