Aug 25, 2008

Living in the Virtual World

This might sound silly, but have you ever give a thought about how people now are living in a virtual world? I did. Core example:


I was recently sitting in a cafe with my boyfriend in the lobby of a newly opened coffee shop, having a cup of machiato. While waiting for our meal come, i watched a couple pass our table. They had just come out from one of those shops together and were holding hands, but the woman was talking to someone else on the cell phone. It was a weird sight. Here was a woman engaging in conversation with someone who wasn't there while holding hands with the man she was ignoring. It set me to thingking about how people spend their time in an increasingly "virtual" world, one in which our immediate experiance of the moment is being overtaken by gadgets.


I'm not planning to be the Dalai Lama nor Zen Master, but I did sometimes thingking about Life and Living, such as "what it is to be alive in this world without gadget or other virtual thingies, like how those monks living in Lhasa, what was it like?"
And my answer is: in the 21st century, dwelling in that timeless will take a lot more effort.


Just a random thought from my mind. This has nothing to do with Zen.

3 lullabies from others:

THINKERBELLE said...

try to live without TV for 3 months first hehe...
I did and it was miserable as I am a TV addict! But to think about those months again, I did have more time to read books than now when I have my TV already...*sigh*

Miss de Saire said...

gw sih ga bermaksud dan mencoba untuk menjadi zen master nor Dalai Lama bu..ga segitunya sih sampe mau nyobain hidup tanpa TV sgala huehue
Just a thought doang ko...=)

THINKERBELLE said...

sbnrnya sih gw tidak mencoba idup tanpa tv dng maksud mnjdi zen master...it's all bcoz my old tv wafat dan gw terlalu males utk browsing tv baru hehe...akhrnya stlh 3bln gw hrs mengaku kalah, gw ga bisa idup tanpa tv :D