"By the twiddling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
Here, I take the liberty to rephrase the Bard (the actual line from Macbeth - spoken by the witches -reads 'pricking of my thumbs') to suit the modern context. My apologies to ardent lovers of Shakespeare.
All of us know that smartphones have become inextricably linked with modern life. You can hardly find someone - be it inside an elevator, on the streets, or anywhere you look for that matter - without their cellphone plastered to their ears or glued to their eyes. People from young kids to the elderly can be found holding gadgets of different sizes, doing all sorts of things. The level of self-absorption is alarming sometimes. The World is too much with us!(Wordsworth)
I read the other day about a suicide helpline catering mainly to suicide callers. The volunteers stated that some of the callers just wanted to hear another human voice, and they would immediately hang up.
How we have grown apart from each other! We isolate ourselves, find unnecessary troubles and then reach out for a lost cause. Frankly, human tendencies are befuddling.
In case your interest is piqued, here is the article:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/a-patient-hearing-when-the-times-get-tough/article19942677.ece
Here, I take the liberty to rephrase the Bard (the actual line from Macbeth - spoken by the witches -reads 'pricking of my thumbs') to suit the modern context. My apologies to ardent lovers of Shakespeare.
All of us know that smartphones have become inextricably linked with modern life. You can hardly find someone - be it inside an elevator, on the streets, or anywhere you look for that matter - without their cellphone plastered to their ears or glued to their eyes. People from young kids to the elderly can be found holding gadgets of different sizes, doing all sorts of things. The level of self-absorption is alarming sometimes. The World is too much with us!(Wordsworth)
I read the other day about a suicide helpline catering mainly to suicide callers. The volunteers stated that some of the callers just wanted to hear another human voice, and they would immediately hang up.
How we have grown apart from each other! We isolate ourselves, find unnecessary troubles and then reach out for a lost cause. Frankly, human tendencies are befuddling.
In case your interest is piqued, here is the article:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/a-patient-hearing-when-the-times-get-tough/article19942677.ece
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