It is nice to have every thing on our finger tips. Yesterday, was Canada Day and we wanted to see the fireworks. I checked on my smart phone all the details, events and timings. I could even see the previous years’ fireworks. The point being, modern technology is very advance insofar that one needn’t ask any one for the details any more.
Wow Factor
Isn’t it amazing that any aspect of our life, one can google it and see our private details on social media websites. One can read reviews of many things on the internet as well. In our days, it was difficult to watch a live match but today you can not only watch live matches with ease but see decades worth of events on the internet with ease.
Some things Don’t Change
The spirit of enjoying the game, the craze for the game has not changed but it has become more commercialized than ever before. However, our emotional needs have not changed; we demand love, affection, attention, respect, friendship, stability, success and fulfillment just like we did 50 years ago. It shifts from situation to situation.
We are still the same human beings that were born 50 years ago to someone being born today. That will one day grow up and study hard and work hard for a living. The point being that our bodies have remained the same whilst our standard of living luxuries of life have drastically changed. Despite the emergence of technology, we won’t be able to get rid of our human needs and therefore we will fall short of balance if we go in excess in either. Our cultures and their mindsets were different 50 years ago than today; the culture may shift but our religion will be applicable in all times.
Our children often hear that in their parents’ age, they weren’t able to do many things that children today, do so with ease. We are so trapped in the middle of comparisons and culture that we often forget what our Lord wants from us. We draw the line, where our Lord asks us to, as He owns us and to Him shall we return.
Every now and then, families have arguments on boundaries for their children and many children take advantage of the freedom they are given. Later in their lives, parents will often cry on the path their children took but it all has to start from an early age. No one grows up to desire a career of drugs or alcoholism. We need to be mature and set our boundaries even if we have technology at our finger tips.
Solution
Balance is required in all things. Communication is one way to start that. One also must be clear in setting boundaries and sticking to ones principles. We cannot be like a feather that the wind blows us in whatever direction it wills. Support is the bedrock of any family and without that, one may as well call each other strangers. The young need to realise that they cannot foster a home where “everything goes” and one does whatever the nafs wants it to do; an enslavement if you will of the human being. And the parents need to know that one does not nurture positive morals by way of control but rather communication. Otherwise we have achieved nothing than our predecessors beside some new technological advances.
Asma Shums <asmashums@gmail.com
JUST CHILL
By Asma Shums :
A husband is scrambling eggs when his wife bursts into the kitchen.
“Careful,” she cries. “Careful! You’re cooking to many at once. Too many! Scramble them! Now! We need more butter. They’re going to stick! Careful! Now scramble them again! Hurry up! Are you crazy? Don’t forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. Use the salt! The salt!” The husband turns and asks, “What is wrong with you?”
The wife responds, “I wanted to show what it feels like when I’m driving”.
