Incoming Darkness
In a world where screens reflect who we are than our mirrors ever could, I found that we have lost the very essence of humanity
As screens replaced our faces and virtual reality blurred the empathy in us, we are drowning in a world where selfishness and self centeredness are often celebrated. Humans are basically so special from any other species I would say. We have got something magical in us — empathy. But today we live in a place where men no longer care for others but themselves, becoming more narcissistic and self admiring, carried away further from the isea of what it means to be a ‘human’.
We have gone too far. Our emotions has vanished, hiding behind the so called societal and superficial standards. We push ourselves too hard to meet these standards, trying to lose weight not to be healthy but to look like a hourglass, carving the faces to get sharp features, these sound scary to me. We no longer live for ourselves but to be acknowledged by others.
We have become more like a daily newspaper or NewsChannel. Our lives have become a series of updates that we broadcast to the world every moment. Are we craving to be validated by someone in some corner of the world who you don't even know? We blindly scroll through feeds engaging a lot with screens rather than actual people around us who might really need our attention, time, and love.
I still remember times I spend as a kid running around my house playing with other kids, with no ‘overthinking’ ruining my mind, with no constant ping of notifications that would distract me. We are almost trapped in a prison, punishing ourselves. Incapable of empathy we are becoming the darker souls, the evil ones. We are so much detached from the real emotions, we now respond only through likes, comments and share.
But still there is hope for a change, for us to be real humans. I know change can’t happen in one night but you and me, we need this change. A change for good.
On August 15th, I was so happy that it was Independence day and I went to Anna Central Library, and it is my first time to visit it. I was about to write something about the library, but I could have not said anything more than letting you guys know, it looked amazingly wow and it had great collections of books and I read this and that. But I just skipped the whole library part and I wrote something that my heart badly wanted to. I hope that this writing can bring a slight change at least in any one person who read this.
