Are we becoming less human and more robotic?

In today's fast paced life the human race has become more dependent on technology to guide its ever day activities and functions. Life has become a lot more simple than it was for our forefathers. Inventions and advancement in almost all fields have in a way improved our quality of life and access to resources. But I would take a moment to stop here and reflect and ask the question, has 'life' really improved? Are we more happy than our parents and our ancestors?

    In our day –to- day life we seem to be moving from one function of the day to the other mechanically not taking a moment to think or reflect on what goes on around us or within us. Just a glimpse at the daily activity within a busy railway station in a metropolitan city will give an insight into this. In the morning hours people are seen rushing to office, in the evening they are rushing home. This life just seems to be continuing day in and day out.

    Time spend together with family, friends have considerably reduced. Children see their parents less at home as they are too involved in their mechanical or robotic function of creating wealth for them. Often a beggar seen on the road is given a coin or two out of sympathy but do we stop by to consider the conditions of the beggar or his situations?

    The human race today seems to living a life devoid of emotions and feeling. Merely existing and functioning to fulfil duties of being a individual as per roles assigned by society just as a robot would do. This kind of social existence does lead to crisis or break down at some point. This can be at some level termed as mid-life or now to say quarter-life crisis. There is this pressing need for humans to stop existing and start living life, taking moments to appreciate the beauty around them, count their blessings, look at the need of human beings around them and build themselves, their families and nation through their lives.

By

Steffi Sam