Shall We Be Honest About Personal Technology Responsibility in Reducing Human Interactions?

 

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Technology has been accused of selfishly monopolizing all the attention and doing so much evil when it comes to our human interactions.

Our smartphones have been blamed for stopping our dinner discussions whether at home or even with friends with whom we choose to go to the restaurant (what’s the point?).

If technology was the real criminal, wouldn’t this pandemic have been the miraculous cure to our human connection disruption, now that we are all staying home for the sake of everybody’s safety?

For the quick story, I attended a networking event last February. I was silently crying while listening to the ‘success story’ of one of the panelists. The guy was bragging about the exponential growth of his video games company, and the audience was impressed and clapping.

My internal dialogue sounded like this: “You must be kidding me… What are you applauding exactly? Are you satisfied with slowly and unconsciously destroying your kids’ magical imagination?”

It was sad for me to witness such a lack of awareness. Every single kid has the right to stay connected to their original greatness. It seems to me that it is possible through real play instead of discriminating against their inner creativity with the digital different entertainment forms, among other factors as:

• Having emotionally present caregivers consistently,
• Being helped to build healthy boundaries and encouraged to have their own identity,
• Staying connected to their intrinsic worth, that is they will be loved, unconditionally, no matter what they do,
• Having their abundance mentality nurtured: the willingness to grow and thrive without any need to compare themselves to their peers, etc.

If this healthy parenting style was the handbook followed by all parents on earth, we would probably be living in the World of Pandora; given our subconscious program — the foundation of all our life experiences — is written by our caregivers from before birth to 6.

Sometimes, we might need to look into the mirror and ask ourselves the difficult questions. I did lately, and it gave birth to this piece. It was too painful to face my warped paradigm.

Last but not least, we need to accept the truth that our behavior as adults, our decisions, or lack of them are nothing but the constructs of our life-time of conditioning.

Interestingly, the tendency to be absorbed by technology is a survival strategy to escape real discussions. How come? Most of us have been well trained to be ashamed of our vulnerability and needs and pushed to ‘achieve’ and prove our worth daily.

The good news is that we can always take our power back and break free from our virtual prison.

Taking one’s responsibility to change what we were not responsible for creating in the first place — our subconscious program — is probably the highest level of strength and wisdom.