There was once a time when everything we did, had meaning. All the laughs were real, the tears were heavy, the sorrow was inevitable and the happiness was shared between the people we cared about the most. This was the time when nothing was "wireless". Then, as time passed, gadgets became "wireless" and people became "heartless". Such gadgets became a huge part of our lives. Pivotal, in fact.
This transition to wireless and heartless was unforeseen and the technological advancements helped us little. In fact, they made us more plastic. They consumed our time. They made us lazy and worst of all, our hearts hardened and before we knew it, all the emotions were gone. The only real emotions showed by us were the ones through emojis, smilies and stickers.
The people we cared about became nothing but "groups" on Facebook and WhatsApp. They became parts of the stories on Snapchat, the chats on BBM and the frequently called ones on Viber, Tango and Skype. Soon, the face to face meetings declined quite a lot and before we knew it, all of us were restricted to the computers in our bedrooms and the cell phones in our palms. All of a sudden, we became busy and none of us had "the time" to meet anyone, anymore. People started to choose clients over friends, businesses over families and cellphones over books. Something definitely went wrong.
As time passed by, toys were replaced by tablets and iPads gained preference over dolls. Each child had his own iPad or iPhone and no one cared about playing outdoors anymore. Rivalries were created over the internet and not on the fields. FIFA became more popular than football and what should've happened on the ground, instead, happened on the television.
There was once a time, when people actually cared about their loved ones, visiting their homes and being with them in times of difficulty. But, unfortunately, now, as we enter the houses of our relatives the first question we ask is not about their health, nor about the food. And no, not even about what's new in their lives. In fact, all we care about now is the internet. Most of us go "Assalaam O Alaikum. Bhai! Yeh Wi-Fi ka password kya hay?" (Assalaam o Alaikum, Brother! What’s the Wi-Fi’s password?”)
Looking at what life has become, one remains absolutely shell shocked. We humans have failed to compete with the technology of today. What we once created has come back to haunt us. In fact, we have literally become slaves to the machine. The machine, which has brought us countless problems over the past decade or so. Twenty or thirty years ago, no one would've even imagined all this and here we are, living, or shall I say, surviving, in the 21st century, which, in every possible way, has become an e-book. I hate to admit it, but we have become the thing we hated the most: we have become "The Lazy Generation".