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With technology taking over the world, is it still possible to enjoy the “simple” things in life?
Technology is a good thing in many ways…it can help with education, it’s vital for a lot of health care procedures, it creates jobs, etc.
However, it can be a bad thing in many ways as well. For example, look at the statistics of obesity in children today – they’d rather stay in and play video games, watch TV or be on the computer instead of being outside, playing and discovering in the “real world”. Relationships are being hurt because of technology addiction (video game addiction, computer addiction, etc).
With all this technology, are we forgetting about real life?
What are your thoughts?
Yes, I believe people are bored if they don’t have any of this to distract themselves, we have forgotten about having fun, using our own creativity to amuse ourselves, no real stimulation is happening, with people sitting around, we arent keeping fit the way we use to, so of course the brain isn’t releasing endorphins that make you feel happy.
with email, people choose to keep in contact through a computer rather than using a phone or going to visit someone. we don’t have the conversations that we use to cause we are so busy sitting behind a computer distracted and as a result relationships suffer as you say, I’ve seen people enraged if their favourite program hasn’t recordered, like it is the end of the world. people having accidents to get home in time to watch a program, people swearing if their game mulfunctions, subliminal information from the tv doesn’t help either in the communication process. so in regards to the simple life things have been so much more complicated through competition with these things, life becomes the storylines on tv, movies etc, rather than stories from real life events.
It is possible to enjoy the simple things in life if we remember what part in life technology plays, it is not significant, we have made a choice to be entertained by these mediums, rather than enjoying what is outside our doorsteps, I think it is a contributing factor to depression in that people are not getting enough sunlight to there eyes and not socialising enough with others.
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