Man Vs Machine

As a child we have always been facinated by these amazing movies like robo cop, terminator, star wars.....few movies protray machines assiting man to make this world a better place and a few become a weapon of distruction.....

But coming to the real world we are facinated by these wonder machines be it Ipod....or Ipod Nano....or PDAs.....or amazing technology psyched gadgets......secretly you always wished to own one.

But going back in time machines have always been there like some very versatile helpers/supporters/assistants/laborers....watever you name them..they have just been there or rather their existence has been for the very soul reason that they assist us not so perfect humans conquer all the limitations and achaive tasks just in seconds giving perfect results considered to be unreachable by man.

It implies that in a way machines have always been few steps ahead of man...or atleast designed so by their creator. So someone may even say....they are perfectionists or our better counterpart!!!

Technically yes, I would agree......if they would not have been there perhaps we would still be living a premitive life.....they are the main reasons or they have always been the first stepping stone for any great achievement man must have ever achieved.

But.......the question lies.....how much farther ahead should we go and make them our weaknesses....I mean just think of it......Can you stay alive without your mobile or your Ipod or Ipod nano or without internet.....or for that matter even without TV.

You would think I am crazy.......you would even go to the extent and say...if thats what you like why dont you yourself quite everything and go to some remot place.

I definately dont intend to say you should abstain from using technology....what I intend to bring to your attention is that look closely somewhere unknowingly you are coming under their very infleunce......like a magic spell.......I remember a friend of mine.....he was just newly married...one day he came home running and in great hurry.......much early then normally he would come. His wife was under the impression that perhaps he missed her so much that he came running to unite with her......but to her dismay he just came home and went directly to his study table and logged in his email......when he was done checking them....that was when he felt at peace.....He just came home early because in his office the internet was not working that day.....and it had been some few hours he was sitting without having any look at his emails.

I definately pity him.......not only him.....I would pity all of us......this is whats happening to us......like some kind of technology virus is grabbing us all.......

What about times when we would rather stay without internet but go out for a trek or hiking with family....spend some quiet time in nature......be one day without electricity but enjoy the cool night air.....while the soothing moonlight makes us feel at peace....what about times when we will stay without our Ipods or Nanos but listen to the soft music of the little creek flowing next to our house........Machines time and again have proven their efficiency over man and man has time and again proven his deficiency to live without them........

We may not be perfect......but we are intelligent enough to feel.....touch.......smell.....sense......view.......hear.............the radiance of spring,the softness of a bloomed flower, the morning freshness, the joyous wind, the scenic dance of the sun rays, the musical notes of huming creatures around us......This is what we are....

But in vain man forgets this.....he is so much engrossed in nullifying his imperfections that he forgets his strengths, his capabilities, his emotions, his feelings.......he forgets he is human.....and not a mechanical machine like the ones he has created to work 24/7.

All today man knows is to feel...touch......smell......sense......view......hear......the sound of money counting.........the smoothness of the textures of beautiful artworks created by his machines.......the dollars in the air........the polluted air created by his machines..............the defeat of his fellow beaings...............abusive things being said to his fellow beings.......

This is todays man.........completetly forgotten the very motive or the very essence of his existence.

Just think of it.......what if a machine created by you were to malfucntion and instead of doing taska you have created it for......it does something else.......you as it creator...would either try and repair it or destroy it dumping it into trash as a malfunctioned and failed invention.

Then what do you think the creator of human kind must be doing? or thinking........?

Machines are or must be powerful and efficient than we are......but they definately cannot be or surpass us as they lack one thing.......they lack a mind which gets hurt when a loved one is rude.....feels bad when a loved one is unhappy.......is sorrowful when a loved one is away ......is joyous when a loved one is close by........

We defeat machines as we have an ability to love.....love and be loved......but if we keep stressing ourselves too much with mechanical or materialistic things ......but if we keep practising negative emotions like hatred, jealousy, anger, fear.........but if we keep doing actions involving destruction, abuse, death......we will very soon loose our only and only strength over these machines.....i.e TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED.