So much for worklife...

I normally lock my laptop at office after working hours. Sometimes when I have some work or when I hadn’t checked my mails properly in office, I take it home. Yesterday was one of those days.

It was then that I read an article in ‘The Hindu’ (published originally in Guardian Newspapers) about the addiction due to devices like blackberry. It is very well written and clearly highlights the negative impact of technology in our life. Thomas Friedman mentions this as ‘The age of interruption’, be it thru’ mails, cell phone calls or blackberry messages. We are gradually losing our privacy. We are getting addicted to technology and end up screwing our personal lives. The statistics given about Americans are shocking. 83% check mails on vacation, 60% check messages while on bed and worse, 37% reply to messages while driving.

Only after reading this article did I remember certain vows I had taken 3 months back after I left college. I wanted to come home on time, spend enough time with family, improve my reading habits and consequently, my language. I wanted to write more in my weblog. But now I realize how far I have gone away from my vows. I haven’t touched by blog for over 2 weeks now. I don’t even read newspapers regularly, haven’t even seen the cover of the book I bought some 2 months back.

Not all these can be blamed on technology; I have other reasons to get distracted. But I have to admit that after work, I get too tired to be able to concentrate on my other itineraries. Prioritization is the need of the hour.

But I hope I will improve now on… – while I brought the laptop home to read my mails, after reading the article, I ended up writing this blog :)

Why?

Why is life so chaotic?? There is no method in the madness. Human beings make simpler things more complicated and in the process of resolving the complications, end up screwing everything. Perfection is never there. Life is ad-hoc.........

But why am I sounding so negative?? Why can't I see the positives?? Why are simpler things looking complicated to me??

???????

Sad day

Today is 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombings, that killed lacs and indirectly affected many more. My prayers are with thousands of affected innocent civilians, who are still suffering as a result.

I have no guts to even see the pictures of the devastation. That this sort of an attack is carried out in a so-called developed world is unimaginable. We are developing technologically, but our mindset is just growing backwards. We behave as of we have nothing called sixth sense. We are just like any other animal - no, certainly much worser.

Even after seeing the extent of devastation, another bomb was dropped at Nagasaki. And the cruelty just did not end there, it is still continuing in one form or the other in other parts of the world, without an iota of remorse.

Where are we heading??