So we leave the phone shop happily with our newly purchased phone equipped with the latest technology that could do virtually anything except few things such as placing a phone call to God or interpreting someone’s dream. We brag around with it especially if it is made by popular brands. In fact, we wouldn’t mind replacing it almost immediately if it catches fire on its own few hours after purchase. It doesn’t matter if a section of our skin got burnt alongside, we will certainly replace the phone with another, most likely same brand or spec. How in the world can we live without it?

In our world today, we spend more time on our gadgets more than with fellow humans no matter how closely related. Sometimes, the most time we spend with other people are actually through our gadgets making us to spend more time “with” our gadgets. If it were possible to conduct a wedding ceremony for such relationship, many could actually walk the aisle saying “I do” to their respective gadgets right in front of the clergyman. Improper, right?

For many of us, we’ve lost touch on how to relate with one another without hiding behind the veil of a gadget and when we eventually meet physically, we act like nerds, stammering and speaking sheepishly things that we would have expressly typed out with several emoticons in our favourite chatrooms. And for some of us that are married, these gadgets especially phones keep putting “asunder” what the good Lord joined together as it takes its own position on our beds and other special spots after been with us throughout the day to places our spouses couldn’t even dare accompany us to. In fact, many of us lost our relationships and marriages due to these gadgets yet they are not evil.

So what’s the missing link? Balance, it is. For example, we don’t have to throw away our pen and paper simply because the latest technology in town now provides us a better platform where we could write or sign on. We shouldn’t replace our physical relationships with our virtual existence all because we love and can’t do without technology. Let’s stay up to date with the latest technology for skill acquisition and other necessary improvement or life enjoyment to only enhance us and not extinct us.

Let’s create adequate time for our friends and families the way we did before technology came our way so that the technology meant to bring them closer to us does not end up stealing us away from them. Remember, we are first human and should always remain human no matter the latest technology we embrace. It’s #techThursday! Hope you got something from today’s piece. Expect more on latest technology next Thursday. Don’t forget, love is sharing. Please share. Catcha!

Source: http://www.ygist.com/technology/latest-technology-source-of-happiness-or-misery/