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EMBRACE THE GLAZE!
Don’t let grumpy adults who miss their time dictate yours.

-Dhvani Parekh

Do you think the roaring 20’s got its name from blamed on technology yet there wouldn't be any
the generation in the 1800 shouting at women in progress in this field if it weren't for technology.
short, flapper skirts? Do you think that the 80’s It is our saviour and destroyer.
kids listened to their 50’s parents ranting about
how perms will kill them and that neon was
blinding? Do you think flip phones weren’t blamed
for giving cancer in 2000’s from the entire world?

The point is there is always going to be a
generation that comes before you that doesn’t
understand what you are doing but that does not
mean you should stop doing it. The people of
yesteryears talk about the joys of outdoor activities
and what they did to pass their free time, but the
fact remains that the evolution of these trends have
undergone due to the every changing patterns of
human need for recognition. Every era has its
charm and it’s only natural to embrace the it.

Technology is the foundation of our epoch and that In retrospect, technology is also one of the
doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We are born with I- reasons for most of the world’s problems -
Pads in our hands and probably want to be buried global warming, nuclear weapons, biowarfare
with them too. The reason adults are so hesitant and so on. The list will only progress as time
about technology is because for them it’s venturing does but our fear for it will not reduce the
into the unknown and things that they deemed as magnitude of the situation. But technology is
sci-fi were actually becoming a part of their daily also the reason families living 2000 miles apart
routine. ‘For what we don't know, we blame.’ This can see and and not only hear the smile in their
is the universal truth of things that confuse us. It voices. It’s the reason you can get home even
also scares them due to media’s portrayal of without any money in your wallet because you
technology which adopts a very ominous tone to know your phone can take care of that.
address this issue. News channels constantly Although technology has its pitfalls, it never
discover that everything in our life is bringing us fails to connect people with their humanitarian
one step closer to the end of the world and side. Most people feel that technology eats
ironically enough technology being the centre of away our humanity, but in my opinion it gives it
this mass destruction. Moreover, the fact that a spark that lights our futile hearts with the
cancer has become one of the most widely ability to feel and take action for a child
incurable disease that somehow is always blamed suffering in Syria in order to give them aid. We
on technology yet there wouldn't be any progress can help a boy whose family can’t accept him
in this field if it weren't for technology. It is our
saviour and destroyer.