Essay written by my daughter for some contest. 8th Grade.
I wake up hearing the buzzing
sound of my alarm in my Lenovo Tab, turn on the mobile data and check the
number of likes for my trendy picture in Facebook, change my status in Whatsapp
and ask my friends how they are, give comments and likes in twitter. Then I get
up from my bed and brush my teeth with an automatic toothbrush and watch some
special programs in my digital T.V. Eat bread and chocolate sauce. I ask my mom
to buy goods online if she asks me to go and buy the grocery from the nearby
store. I book movie tickets in my laptop and sit under air conditioner for
hours. I hear trendy songs and watch viral videos in YouTube. Speak with my
relatives and friends who are in foreign countries through Roam and Skype. I study for my exams with the help of books
available in Play Books. This is how I travel through life. But my grandparents
are people who practice the old style of like walking to each and every places
for their daily needs and the also are not interested in the modern way of life.
New technological advancements
are constantly happening around us. Life will be boring without a CHANGE in
everything. Technology has developed and raised the standard of living for
everybody. The only thing that doesn’t change and remain constant in this world
is CHANGE.
If the changes do not happen,
as a 12 year old girl, I wouldn’t be enjoying the new technological luxurious
life that I am enjoying now. No soft beds in my house, miles to walk down the
south, no A.C.s to fight the hot sun, no cell phones for communication only
pigeons. I cannot imagine such a boring life. I sometimes wonder how my
grandparents lived in such a primitive world.
When I discussed about this
with them they told that they were happy at that time than now in this
fast-running world. They said that it is now tough for them to cope-up in this
world. There was no complexity in life then. As technology started to grow and
reach the peak, people belonging to the older period feel left out. They are
unable to cope us with the technological advancements and thus unable to
progress along with others. Thus the elderly people find it difficult to get
accustomed to the new phase of world. They also get frustrated in learning the
technology and thus the life becomes tough for them in this advanced world.
Nowadays it is not so weird in
not having a bank account rather than a Facebook account. All the memorable
quitters are also in twitter. No one is bothered in getting rice, wheat or
gram, everyone wants to join Instagram.
All these has forced elderly
people to learn the newest technology. Wherever it may be from buying a pair of
shoes to a large palace, everyone has the necessity to give their phone number,
e-mail ID, etc. This has made my grandparents come behind me for everything
from switching on their smart phones to doing all wonders in the INTERNET. Daily
I need to teach them how to use Whatsapp, how to check the mobile balance, how
to use an automatic toothbrush, how to set up an e-mail account, etc. My
grandparents think that wisdom doesn’t come through age, it comes through the
new technological advancement. They are open-minded to learn every new thing
they see around this beautiful world.
52 years later, when I am 64
years I think I would learn a number of new inventions from my grandchildren.
They would just be like a mirror and reflect the same thing I do to my
grandparents. Scientists tell that a few decades later the air would be filled
with the machinery sound of ROBOTS, roads would be filled with DRIVER-LESS
VEHICLES, MIND-READING HOTEL SERVERS, etc. What is the worth of $500,000,000 if
we doesn’t even know how to make use of robots around us? We must know how to
call, sit and tell your destination to a driver-less car. When I am in that
situation I would feel like a small ant in a huge world. There would be machines to bath me, wake me,
even machines to dress me up, prepare my meals and give remedies for my
psychological problems.
Now I wonder how I am going to
learn all these things and the most difficult task of learning the codes and
languages of these machines. I would be totally dependent on my grandchildren
who would guide me as a teacher in all circumstances. I understand the struggle
of my grandparents now very much.
My grandchildren can be the
people like me who are affectionate and help their grandparents, or can be
those who are not interested in teaching me. I must be mentally and physically
ready to face that phase of the world in future, whatever be the environment.
Those days of my life would become hectic and difficult if I don’t have an open
mind to learn.
I must be open-minded and ego-less like my
grandparents to learn and grasp the new things around me. Knowledge or wisdom
must be iron pins which would be attracted by every magnet called as humans in
any point of time. I would also experience the true happiness of life through
my grandchildren. I would learn the innocence in their smile, and learn the
honesty from their talk, learn what hard work is when they study for their
mechanical exams and I would reach the true destination learning every bits and
pieces which I didn’t enjoy when I was young due to its unavailability.
I would also teach them the
important keys to open the door of happiness and success which I would have
learnt from my journey through life. Not only when I am 64 would I learn from
my grandchildren, all through life I would be open-minded like my super
grandparents and grasp everything around me with interest in the new
TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD!!!!!!!!!
