Internet

It seems that there’s so much little time today for anything than it was a century ago. Time has always been of essential value ever since, for family, work and relationships, but not as valuable, or invaluable, as it is for today’s generation.

Everywhere I look, I see prints and insignia of what people fondly call the “dawn of the computer age.” Multi-tasking for instance may sound too strenuous a word for your grandpa, but today’s young generation looks almost like they’re born with a strand of wav. mpeg or html file embedded in their DNA. It seems unusual for instance, when I sometimes feel that the youth of today’s generation has somehow lost a firm grasp of the primordial reality of the world.

They are simply gifted with such gifts, to simply put, an innate ability to perhaps listen to an ear popping mp3 file, to nibble with a cell phone, to cross a 5 lane highway (in a Philippine infested traffic fashion), while talking to his pal, in the middle of the day, and of the road, all at the same time

There’s too much of something that’s taking so much of our time today. Entertainment has been a primary necessity that it is just too unbelievable in fact, though so true, that there are people I know who would dive into a cold turkey, once her cellular phone has been taken away from her even for just a day.

The reality in the world of the internet, no matter what the form, the chat world, the RPG games, the online games, or otherwise, has taken much of our waking lives that at times they even steal much of our lives at sleep. These realities overlap, no matter what the format is, against the true primordial reality that is, without the tv’s and computers.

If there can just be a way to determine the extent to which relationships, romantic and otherwise, has affected, created, and felt more realistically in the world wide web than in real life, then I would surmise that such relationships has been growing exponentially.

These realities just take too much of what our human senses can handle, that such realities has taken a toll against what our reality should be. The internet life of many of those I know transcend, almost invariably, their lives when at home, and with the family. A friend for instance, seems to take more interest and revel at conversations held against the monitor screen than the one she has, always without pay, with a real life friend. The gadgets we have that are supposed to entertain us, puts up an invisible curtain that separates us somehow to what is right there in front of us.

Human senses can only sense too much, and multi tasking is indeed a strenuous task, but because the dawn of entertainment is supposed to entertain, and entertainment in the human sense has always been believed to be stress free, we indulge in them without fear.