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Life is plugged in today

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LIFE IS PLUGGED IN TODAY

Today, children are being robbed of their childhood by science. Playing together used to
be the way children discovered themselves and explore the world around them through their own perception, imagination, and individual as well as group contacts and
interactions. They would argue with friends, draw lots, chase each other,
sometimes laughing, sometimes tumbling, bumping and bumbling around. They
talked, fought, and resolved their conflicts face-to-face. This helped them to
be connected with each other, with their parents, siblings, and friends. Life
was not only physically active and immediate, but also was spiritually
connected, in which every interaction was direct: body to body and soul to
soul.

Modern technology has changed all that was a charm in life. Adults, as well as kids
now contact on face book, twitter, and text messages. Information, learning,
knowledge, and life experiences, all come to everyone pre-managed,
scientifically prepared, readymade, and above all filtered through digital devices. Today even before the babies can walk they are exposed to screen media, and our children are plugged in 7 to 8 hours daily, relating to each other differently–without any
physical or spiritual contact. Teen-agers woo each other by text; be-friend or
break up on twitter, tease and taunt, cheat and deceive each other–in some
extreme case commit criminal acts or get depressed to the point of
suicide– all being performed in cyberspace. Whereas the consequences of such a hyper-wired life style is physical crippling, social isolation, intellectual introversion,
imaginational stagnation, it is dangerously emotional decadence and spiritual
dissipation. The new generation is depriving itself of direct intellectual
investigation, interpersonal social skills, emotional bonds, spiritual quest,
and morality as a virtue, that the older generation learned through common
interaction. Today, before all of us is a big question: Is modern science
tyrannously changing our course of evolution? Is science taking over the
divinely designed or the naturally evolved man and arbitrarily shaping him
as an emotionless and spiritless figure servant to technology’s
sovereignty?

Mirza Ashraf

“Morning Shows” By Saadia Asad

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Saadia Asad’s thoughts on Morning Shows in Pakistan. In fact same can be said about the entertainment shows in the West. It is true with freedom of speech comes responsibility, but is it the personal responsibility and responsibility of media or outside censorship, as suggested by Saadia Asad, is required ? Once outside censorship steps in, where will it stop, especially in case of morality? ( F. Sheikh )

With freedom comes responsibility : responsibility of what to
choose,what to say and how to act.Our media has attained freedom …but
they have not acquired responsibility ,which becomes apparent by watching
the morning shows.Nothing worthwhile,decent or sensible is being aired in
these shows which are supposed to give one a fresh start to the
day.Outrageously made up hosts ,weird topics and activities ranging from
weddings on stage,dancing,shopping and haunting make up the jisst of these
shows.Crude language,indecent body language,double meaning sentences and
gestures have become a norm of these shows.
Most of the people i have talked to have negative
feedback regarding these programms.The highest viewership of these shows
are the upcoming lower and lower middle-class,who are newly being exposed to
this fake world of glamour.A very wrong message is being conveyed to this
group that education,awareness and mannerisms all become secondary in the
face of glamour and rowdiness.These morning shows actually have become a
warning for what is ahead.They are a reflection of the moral degradation
society is headed towards.It is urgently requested that electronic media
regulation authority should do something about this.Curbing the
vulgarity, bringing in some sense and common sense into the script and
topics are the right steps to improve this scenario.
by Saadia Asad

Lincoln, a great and reassured man

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On his first day in office, as President “Abraham Lincoln” entered the
Senate to give his inaugural address,

One man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat.

He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make
shoes for my family.”

And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a fool of
“Lincoln”.
…BUT….
Certain people are made of a totally different mettle.

“Lincoln” looked at the man directly in the eye and said,

“Sir, I know that my Father used to make shoes for your family, and there
will be many others here,

Because he made shoes the way nobody else can.
He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole
soul into them.

I want to ask you, have you any complaint?

Because I know how to make shoes myself.

If you have any complaint I can make you another pair of shoes.

But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father’s shoes.

He was a genius, a great creator and I am proud of my Father”.

The whole Senate was struck dumb.

They could not understand what kindof man “Abraham Lincoln” was.

He was proud because his Father did his job so well that not even a single
complaint had ever been heard.
…..Remember…..

“No one can hurt you without your consent.

It is not what happens to us that hurts us.

It is our response that hurts us”

Best sermons are lived;not preached