Searching for Solitude

We have lost human touch, respect and understanding one’s emotion. Gone
are the days where we used to differentiate between Empathy and
Sympathy. Alas, we lost our precious human days where people used to
understand each other by just saying a word “Hello or Hey” or just by
giving a smile “Real Smile” and not “Smiley”.

We must be aware, there are lot of people who are running away from
cities, towns, and most important from social obligations and looking
for Salvation, running for Solitude, Why? Do you have any answer?

Recently, I watched program on #BBC Earth, “Where the Wild Men are with
#Ben Fogle”, I was surprised to see how established well to do and well
settled people have left daily hustle bustle and living in some remote
jungles and islands, happily and without any disturbance, from people
around or social media. People are going back to Old Age style of
living, where they breed cattle’s, grow their own vegetables and do
little bit of farming for their survival. Watched film on Ian Usher, who
was doing very good in his career and living happily in Australia, but
because of stress and disturbed marriage which turned into Divorce, he
auctioned his entire life – car, home, job and friends – on eBay in a
midlife crisis that made headlines the world over. He owns a Caribbean
island now and is living happily. And like him there are so many people.

Why are we running from everything around us, what is bothering us? Now
days, we have everything available on our finger tips, isn’t it? I have
answer, the reason is we don’t have #PEACE. We all are searching for
peace and tranquility which has gone from none to never. Technology is
giving us so many things every day, be it IoT, AI, Watson, Robots, and
so on and so forth. Social media is killing us all, WhatsApp, FB,
Twitter, Instagram, and so on. We have lost our rights of privacy. We
are growing in Artificial Technology and that is resulting in emergence
of Robots and Loss of Humans. Soon, we will see only Robots around and
Humans will be here and there, as they will be running towards stone
age.

So, I am wandering are we heading to disaster and end of this human race
as we have started building Robots and machines with human intelligence
and ending the living people or pushing them to get out, saying, if you
want to survive go back to the stone age as you don’t fit here.

Can we all put ON thinking Caps and try to do analysis as to where is
the balance and where should we draw a line.

We all are humans with flesh and blood and we need human touch, we
cannot live in virtual world and be friends or well-wishers on just
social media. We are losing our health, mind, respect for others and
most important ourselves because of this technology boom. I am not
against the technology, it has done wonderful things but we need to have
place for everything.

We need to understand and realize it soon, rather than at the point
where it’s too late.