When friends living a couple of rooms across prefer instant messaging to conversing, it gets me thinking. We seem to be depending more on our virtual counterparts than our real self. Online resources are becoming easier than ever. Talking to people living a few miles away through the internet is quite befitting, but that per se is no real reason to extenuate a meeting. It is essential to realize that the virtual image might not always be consistent with the real one. More often than not, warped understanding ensues.
A couple of years ago, my cousin had written this piece-
"Talking about living, I fear we have reached a stage where the virtual lives are taking control over the real lives a la the matrix. Be it the forums we visit, orkutting we do, online avatars we exhibit, blogging we do, we project a virtual image of ourselves, so much so that incase our real selves ever meet, one may indeed be a tad disappointed to find that the real selves are not as impressive as the virtual identities are."
An articulate thought. Two years from then, not much has improved and if anything, flourishing online resources have just amplified the exigency of understanding this rationale.
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3 comments:
the sweet devil has encompassed our ability to break free... we humans are stuck here for eternity!
To agree or not to agree..
Only time will tell.
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