I’m a member of the millennial generation and I don’t really
think that technology improves our lives.
That is not exactly a common statement but one that rings true with what
I have experienced in my life. Each day
is different and yet, each day a pattern exists where I find myself lost in a
device missing out on the world around me.
Often, at the end of a day I reexamine my time spent here on Earth for
that particular day and analyze the quality of conversations, relationships
built, work done. There are days where I
feel satisfied and days where I feel as though it was a waste. Often times, the good days are ones spent in
the moment, with people, doing great work, making friends, smiling. The days that aren’t are the ones that I
spend with my nose in a phone.
Something happens to me when I’ve got my nose inches from a
screen. The day goes by much
quicker. Life is put on fast forward and
the days screeches buy with no content.
There are days where I want the time to screech by, and so I spend most
of it refreshing Twitter every few minutes trying to catch that next
interesting article to make the clock tick by quicker. (These days are usually at work.) This Youtube video does an excellent job at
describing my struggle:
Look up. The film
takes such an interesting look at the way we view society. I’m tired of the millennial generation and
it’s views on technology. Just look at
what succeeds in our generation economically, in 2010 there were 842,188 technology startups opened. I have
such a difficult time with the fact that most of my generation thinks that
technology is the key to a better life. I’ve found that what gives life meaning
cannot be found on a screen but in the creating and sustaining meaningful
relationships.
Many of my classmates and friends all
our working to be content specialists or social media managers hoping to make
it big, but the problem is facebook posts aren’t really the backbone of what
runs a business. We look for easy
options, a job we can do at home like posting tweets for a living when to truly
give life meaning and seek out real opportunities we have to get out and meet
other individuals. I think that we have
a fear of sticking our neck out to meet other people and this can become a very
large issue for our generation.
-Sam Wyrick
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