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21st century, the Era of ‘technology’

An era characterized by rapid expansion of liberalization, urbanization and globalization where technology plays a vital role in our day-to-day lives. Technology is supposed to make people more connected through social media, email, instant messaging, which have become important facts of our life.

However, Internet skeptics have argued that indirect online communication encourages isolation and prevents real friendship from building up. So is it true that technology is actually getting in the way of real socializing? Does technology makes us alone?

According to psychologist Jung,”Loneliness doesn’t come from being unable to communicate that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which other find inadmissible.” He predicted the state of human mind addicted to technology.

The alienation from face to face communication results with worsened social skills and unnatural behavior when “virtually socialized” people find themselves in real life situations.Technology and modernization have taken its pace and both are doing well at their own place. Again it is the humans who are getting into it and are on the verge of forgetting how to communicate with each other. The world today is so advance with so many social media, application where connecting is a blink of an eye, but then when it comes to a family trip, a get together connecting with one another in reality seems long gone. People are so busy adapting the development that they seem to forget themselves. In the days without technology and social media people used to manage to have contact with one another and they were connected by hearts. Now people are more concerned about what status and which selfie they will upload in social media rather than just enjoying the moment.Joint families living together in a small house were replaced by small families living in villas and they use cellphones to communicate one another within the same house. The life of the people has been trapped in those keypad emoticon like never before.

Music has become an important part of our life. Can we imagine life without music? Nowadays it is a common phenomenon where people use headphones to listen to music irrespective of the place and therefore having a conversation with the person sitting next to them has become quite different, in order to make everything right, we need to make a change starting today itself. A real good conversation with our beloved ones, our mother or father makes a huge difference in their lives as well as ours, they couldn’t be more happier than that.Some relationships are precious, don’t lose them on the way to reach the top of the world.

Today, we talk about success, money and power but we tend to forget to talk about the importance of human relationship.

Go get a cup of coffee with your favorite person and have a good conversation. Your existence is valued by someone, don’t just let it go in vain.

Amisha L Phukan | Content Writer | DU Times

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                                               The invisible world…”

                                                                                   -William Wordsworth

Imagination is a language without words through which we vicariously get transported even to unknown places. It brings both pleasant and sad thoughts to our mind. We get to measure the depths of infinity and yet there would be more space to cover up. Imaginations are endless. They become so engraved in our mind, creating a world of their own, where we seek refuge. We start living it, making it a reality. Whether you agree or not, escapism is rejuvenating, sometimes. It feels like moving on a road which keeps on stretching far and wide. We might not necessarily want to reach the destination, as we are busy recording the miles we have covered. But when we get hit by a boulder, the revelation of how reality intrudes in, and how it is not always a smooth ride, flashes clearly.

 Now, have a look at the painting below. What comes to your mind?

Well, did you have to look at that twice? What did you interpret? Were you able to find a horse?

Let me decipher it for you. The painting above is a famous example of a Cubist Painting by Jean Metzinger called ‘Le Femme au Cheval’ or ‘Woman with a horse’. The woman is wearing a pearl necklace and one could see how the horse and trees are immersed in the background.  It looks as if shards of glasses are put together to make this work of art. The aim of Cubist paintings is to make the viewer not just to see, but observe and scrutinize any painting being made on canvas. This is done to enable the viewers to introspect about it and come up with various perspectives. Generally, a Cubist painting captures a scene from various angles and tries to amalgamate them into an integrated whole. The painting is made not just to look at it, but to comprehend it as well. Some may find the woman ride a horse, while others may not see a horse at all. Our imaginative faculties are put to test when we observe such beautiful Cubist paintings.

How about another one?

This celebrated work of art called ‘The Three Musicians’ was painted by Pablo Picasso. The painting looks like a paper cutout, as we do not know where it starts and ends and as the shapes intersect and overlap with each other. The three figures shown above have a level of continuity. The figures are flat, abstract and vibrant. When the viewer participates, the painting starts making sense. Through Imagination, one can make an ordinary object look extraordinary. It just needs that artistic lens to germinate into something new.

 What are your views?

Sometimes, mental images become difficult to be communicated and put into words. As a result, we use allusions and metaphors to construct a physical world. We invent a meaning for our abstract thoughts. It arouses our cognition and we attain the stature of a creator who transforms his mental image to a real thing. While heaven and hell are beyond our experience, but its descriptions are definitely within our experience. For example, Hell is a place of hopelessness and suffering, a bottomless pit where men are tormented with fire. This place called Hell transcends reality, but its descriptions are sensory. They give us the sensation of darkness, heat and sorrow which each one of us has experienced. Similarly, when Satan comes out of the lake of fire, the shield hung on his shoulders is compared to the moon. Thus, we use our imagination to perceive the transcendent and supernatural.

Imagination leads to exciting possibilities. So, start dreaming.

“Logic will get you from A to z, imagination will get you everywhere.”

• Albert Einstein

What is the best thing you have imagined so far?

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