Machines are
expected to work in a definite manner. Some programmed while others operated
automatically with a push of a button. While still, some are dealt manually. A
machine need not be a sophisticated, accumulated or assembled in a complex way.
It can be as simple as churning grain from the straw or pumping water from a
hand pump. Different types of machines are spread across the world in its own
form and works in its defined capacity. They are meant to behave, obey in a
particular manner if not, are stacked away never to be touched again. It is
most often replaced if not repaired and there is no second chance nor looked
into the crux of the problem to find solutions.
No one has
that kind of time or patience in this fast paced, racing life. There is no time
for such repair of thoughts ore revisits and introspect oneself, to make an
inner change than waiting for others to change. It is expected of others to
behave, follow and live in a particular manner. Yes, much needed in a civilised
society or it can run berserk.
In this
entire process of being like someone else, or staying to the expected standards
of the society, in living the manner expected somewhere down the lane we have
actually forgotten to live. We have stopped connecting inward in an attempt to
connect with everything outside and the outwardly world. We have no time to sit
and look at ourselves, feel what we actually feel or say what we want to say.
We park our feelings, our thoughts and ourselves for some other day. This
continues and repeats in an endless loop. In this continuous routine we slowly
loose the human touch, the core of human behaviour and its values in its true
sense.
Things that once mattered take a back seat. Interests, aspirations,
love, consciousness die a slow death. We don’t remain ourselves or belong to
our own self and existence anymore. We are governed by someone else, live as
per they want us to live and function as per their command or as programmed.
Once, programmed we function exactly like it was expected to and has to. There
is not stop or chance of failure. No second chance.
We are
gradually turning into human-machines or being turned into Human-Machines and
there is an attempt of turning machines with a human touch. This is a dangerous
role play we are getting into. The day is not far when Human beings will turn
themselves into complete machines only to be stacked aside one day if not used.
We have already stopped using our brains and its functionalities are reducing
and someday it will forget its actual use waiting for a command to function
just like a machine that waits for a command to work.
This is
known as the techno age, an age of advanced technology and apps. The world has
shrunk to a click. An age where machines
are learning and humans have stopped intellectually advancing and forgotten to
learn. Man created machines to make life easy, for efficient and effective use
of time and effort but in this process of creation has not realised, he is
progressing himself in becoming one among his own creations and turning into
one.
One fine day, maybe will wake up unable to differentiate between his
creation and God’s creation and be stacked along with his creations in a pile
of machines with no difference between the two. Stacked away and Untouched!
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