Being a conscious human being: Evening Walk Talks - Episode One (1)

Being a conscious human being: Evening Walk Talks - Episode One (1): There are small trees on both side of the foot path in our residential complex. While walking through the foot path at night, we can see il...

Evening Walk Talks - Episode One (1)

There are small trees on both side of the foot path in our residential complex. While walking through the foot path at night, we can see illuminated high rise buildings far away abiding in its glory. Also there are vehicles passing in the road next to the foot path. The climate is mildly warm as its a summer night in Dubai. But the continuous breeze, makes our evening walks a memorable experience.

We (Myself and my husband Sandheep) are casually talking on various aspects of life while walking through the street foot paths. 

I said " Human lives has drastically changed in the past century due to the invention of various things than compared to the previous centuries"

"We cannot say that, there was always a gradual need for inventions from the day human has needs and it was happening.........(deep pause)  But due to inventions in the past century, our life has improved tremendously" he told

After thinking for a while, " Yes, the quality of things around us has improved tremendously but as human beings I seriously doubt whether our quality is improving or diminishing"   I said doubtfully

"What do you mean ? I'm feeling so happy and blessed to be in this century. The technology developments is giving me so much social and emotional security in life. Even though we are far from our native place, we can still be in touch with our family and can travel in short time if there is a need"

"Yeah. That's true..but"

 " Few centuries before, if someone travel to distant place within the country itself their family doesn't know whether he is alive or when he is coming back " He continued interrupting me

"But at that time, people have more emotional strength than now. They prepared themselves to face any misfortunes in life. Now a days people are emotionally vulnerable. Even a small failure (which they feels) is leading people to depression" I sighed 

"Due to this tremendous technological advancements in medical fields, I'm sure we have increased the life span...found out medicines for various diseases that definitely improve human life " he added

"Yes, but there was not as many disease as of now earlier" 

"That's not the case, now due to technological advancements we are able to figure out what exactly the reason if you even have a stomach pain. Earlier, whatever pain happens in stomach, its all comes in one category. But now we can exactly find whether its due to gastric problem or kidney problem, intestinal problem or pancreatic problem and can treat them accordingly. That's the beauty of technology" he emphasized the greatness of technology 

"So you are thinking human beings are in a better state than the previous generations"

"Definitely yes" he reasserted

"As you are working in an airline industry, tell me how many years you take to construct an airport with all sophisticated technologies available now" I asked 

"Roughly I takes 5-6 years of continuous work of 35K people to build a large airport" he replied

 " Ok. We have been to Ajantha and Ellora caves, Brahadeshwar Temple and several other temples right. Now tell me how much effort they took to construct this magnificent structures without the current technology support, which still amazes us on its precision and grace "

He paused for few moments. then said " Yes. That's true. They have taken enormous effort"

"That happened because of the will power and determination of people at that time. May be it took several generations of work but due to their physical and mental strength they have done it. That's why I'm saying, now a days people are loosing that"

"What you want to say"

I continued " We are gradually getting our self dependent on technology. The more we depend on technology, the less we are empowering ourself. For eg. During the early years of landline, we remember the phone numbers of all our family members but now we are not using our memory power instead of that all the numbers are stored in our mobile phone. So I seriously doubt without strengthening or using our inner capabilities/potentials we are making our outside situations smart. Is that what we really want"

A long period of silence

"Why are you silent" I asked after few minutes

"No. I'm just thinking. May be what you are saying is right." he replied

"After few generations, may be children don't have exams as they have everything readily available in google or any such thing exists that time. What is the need to store information in their brain and remembering. Hmmmm they might wonder how our generation lived with out all these" I said thinking about our future generations

"As long as human need for betterment and quest for knowing the unknown persist, the technological advancement happens which improves our lives but whether as human being are we evolving to a better one..that will get answered only after many generations" he told

"I strongly thinks, if scientists, educationalists, policy makers, leaders and every individual makes their deeds and decisions conscious understanding the wider perspective of improvement of human beings as such their might have a new dimension of the individual strengthening" 

"how easily you said this... " he laughed smacking my shoulders

Holding his hands I replied..."hmm yeah...so much anxious and curious on where we are heading towards" 

"Good that you are curious...now we are back home. Can you please get me some lime juice...." He requested

"Oh yes" I replied

--------------------------Here comes the end of our evening walk talks of this day----------------------------