Have we lost touch with reality?
Posted by Amanda , Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:59 PM
Sometimes I feel like technology has taken over our lives in such a way that we forget about reality—we forget that humans are real, tangible, valuable. I read an article this week about two parents in South Korea who had a child with health complication. Instead of taking care of their real child, they made a cyber child and spent all their time looking after it online. They would only break away from their cyber child to feed their real child every once in awhile. Their child ended up dying from malnutrition and dehydration.
When technology takes the place of reality, we have to know there is a problem. If you are choosing to take care of a cyber child instead of your actual, in-front-of-your-face child…there is a big problem. An important point made in the article is that this isn’t just something that happens across the world from us. While people in the United States aren’t killing their babies because they are taking care of cyber children, they are constantly enthralled with their technology. Whether it’s the internet, texting, calling or watching television, we have become a society obsessed with communicating through technology and getting away from our realities.
It’s sad to me that personal communication has gone down the drain. We no longer know how to communicate with each other verbally, we don’t know how to act with each other in person and our friendships aren’t as rich as they could be. If we could put down our computers, turn off our televisions and limited our cell phone use, I think we would find that there are amazing, beautiful people around us, full of love and stories and intelligence. We could enjoy nature, the way that God intended for it to be. I think we are really missing out on a lot.
It’s such a big deal to me that we are missing this. I definitely want to keep praying for this and keep this on my mind. If you want to pray with me, just pray that:
· The South Korean couple would be able to realize the value of human life and be able to deal with their loss in a healthy way.
· We would learn the importance of limiting our technology use.
· We would spend more time interacting with people, spending time getting to know one another and love each other in a deeper way.
· Our society wouldn’t be working its way to total dependence on technology, but start building relationships in more fruitful ways.
Article: Baby Dies While Parent Plays Online
