Read it somewhere on the internet, but it really paints the
picture merely from words.
“9 year old today have Facebook,
Twitter, phones, and iPods.
When I
was their age, I had colouring books, crayons, chalk and imagination.”
Well, at first, it may sound absurd, but the truth is that’s
what has happened with the human evolution after the introduction of TV’s,
Computer and other digital devices capable of showing us what only our naked
eye could have shown, a century ago. This may seem rhetoric, but you will
realize that just how apt it is when you think about it seriously.
There were
methods to stay creative, knowingly or unknowingly, the brain in way of
processing our daily activities found necessary ingredients that helped it stay
fit and healthy. But the unhealthy timetable of a person nowadays is either so
hectic or so ‘lazy-like’ that it is affecting the brain in a bad way.
We, as kids, used to go to the terraces when the electricity
wasn’t there and certainly not worried about when will the electricity be back
again…we would do all kinds of stuff, enjoy the calmness beneath the sky, the
refreshing breezy air, succumbing to the Mother Nature and yet appreciating the
beauty of it. There would be an open exchange of ideas, the thoughts pouring in
on the open minds: that’s all you need to get an out of box idea, isn’t it?
But, nowadays, the common trend is being engrossed in TVs, video games,
playstations, PSPs, Facebook etc. With no time for building their thought
process, the probability that they might contribute something fruitful to the
society looks a bit diminishing. Why only kids or students, parents too aren’t
impregnable by these activities. Nowadays, an average office-going person
spends more than a third of his day at his office cubicle and when he returns
home, is again entrapped in a bigger cubicle, only this time he has a
television in front of him. Some even take their professional work to home.
I am not asking to put a ban on the television etc., it’s
true that it’s a way creative people show their skills to the world via the
daily soaps, reality gigs, game shows, movies etc but inadvertently they are putting
the imaginative bird of the viewers to sleep. Yes, that is arguably true,
because your brain can work as much you want it to be, but give it a hint of distraction
and it switches itself off. These are acting like distraction and putting our
mind away from the real thing for which the brain is made up for. Our brain is
not compatible with such long viewing hours of televisions or anything of that
sort.
Now hours of thinking
have been replaced with hours of TV sitting, talking face to face with friends
has been replaced with communication via social networking. It’s not healthy;
neither for any individual’s health nor for the society. The solution to this remains an enigma.* But
can be circumcised by a little awareness from the parents. Being aware of this
problem is also a big success while working towards the solution. Giving a limited time to the digital Medias may help too.
Earn some time for yourself, and think about who are you, how have you been living?
Daydream about what you want. Daydream is actually our brain’s way of getting
us to creatively focus on what it is we really want. These solutions may not be
easy to follow, but will surely bring your life back to track.
