Tech Life?

I am growing up in a society of technology. Everything is on some sort of touch screen or portable device. Even this very blog is being written from a laptop as I sit on my parent’s bed. I have come to enjoy the conveniences of things such as smart phones and laptops. They make my life easier in so many ways. You know that pain you get in your hand when you’ve been taking notes to long? Yeah, I can skip that and just take notes on my laptop now, and the world is at my fingertips now that I am the proud owner of a smart phone. But what is hard when everything is so easy? Where is there hard work? It seems there is a growing number of people who can’t live without their technology. Smart phones can even turn your lights off in your house. People can live their life sitting on the couch. They can buy things off the internet, have things delivered, even do work from home with a laptop and a phone for conference calls. It all is just so easy. Where being sent to their room used to be a punishment for kids, it is now something kids love, because being sent to their room means uninterrupted time with their electronics and so called punishment. Does anyone ever stop to think that this may have a negative impact on us? Instead of going and spending all day outdoors, kids stay inside and play on the newest app they just bought on the App Store.  Kids don’t know what an uncomfortable situation even is because if they get close to something that might even be considered such, they just pull out their phones and pretend to text, or their IPods and listen to music. Maybe kids need to experience uncomfortable situations. Life isn’t always going to be sweet and comfortable. Has anyone ever stopped and wondered what would happen if all technology in the world just shut down? No one would know what to do. Suddenly no one could communicate and barely anyone even knows that letters still exhist. So what would happen? I'll tell you. Society would shut down. No one would be able to function. At least for a while.  Hopefully, life would somehow sort itself out, the chaos die down. People would begin to understand hard work again, not letting everything in their lives be run by silly little machines. People would appreciate life a little more if everything wasn't so easy to obtain. Maybe that's what some of the world needs. Just maybe.