The first day of Eid al -Adha has passed, which, as soon as we finish the Eid prayer, our steps are racing towards the visits of councils and people, warm meetings, real laughter and complacency mixed with the smell of oud and incense. However, in the crowd of these beautiful moments, we began to feel that we are bringing smartphones more than we attend human councils!
It became familiar today, when one of the Bahraini councils enters, to find everyone present with his body only, while his soul is roaming the worlds of “Snap”, “Al -Tak Tok” and “Insta”. The voices of the crackling are exalted on the screens until they are almost covered on the sound of “Al -Dallah” as they pour the holiday coffee with the flavor of cardamom and saffron. You turn right, so you see your relative, who has become more like an adventurer coming from the Alps thanks to the snow filter, and looks left, so you see your uncle turning into a laughing cartoon character without occasion. As for the reality that we really live? It has become just a boring background that is not appropriate for broadcasting or publishing.
Previously, our councils were simple and full, sessions for adults in which young people listen to the news of Al -Furjan, the sideburns of the family and relatives, and the warm memories of the beautiful days of time. Today, the child himself is responsible for photography and direct broadcasting with a satirical comment: “A very boring family stand!”
The phone has become an unwanted third individual in all relationships, enters between the husband and his wife, the mother and her daughter, and even between a person and himself. Wake up a notification tone instead of the call to prayer, and you fall asleep with your eyes on the video of “crackling” or a “trend” clip free of any real meaning. We have lived through the screens, expressing our feelings through “emoji”, while the real dialogue is eroding as if it is an old fishing boat that loses its arrasses in the face of technology currents.
In Bahrain, the country where the distances between homes are measured by a few steps, you find two people in one house, Tetraslan via WhatsApp! It is nice for someone to say to you: “And you are you!” It is two steps away from you. We drowned in what can be described as “convincing emotional divergence”, we follow the news of others and forget to live our life that leaks from our fingers like time.
We do not need to return to the homing bathroom, nor boycott the Internet, but some balance will never harm. Try you to talk to your son without the “tuk tuk” noise, and to read your wife’s face instead of reading an unknown source tweet. Put your phone in a slightly silent position, perhaps your inner voice is thinner and more clear than the successive notifications.
We really need a “human application” that re -prioritize our priorities, and a “realistic filter” that appears from we love before we appear, and a “internal modernization” that redefines the meaning of the meeting and the meeting. No technology in the world sings a mother’s bosom, a pride from a father, or a sincere laugh that comes out of the heart and not from the screen.
Our Bahraini councils, which were filled with people’s conversations, central market news, fish prices and tomatoes, were refreshing the soul more than any “stroke” or “Post”. Al -Qi’dah, which is devoid of real dialogue and sincere laughs about the crowd of Budaie Street, remains incomplete, no matter how full phones are filled.
Let us continue our joy with the feast and the meeting of loved ones, and to try in our upcoming meetings to raise our heads a little, and to see the faces of those who love instead of our screens, to enjoy laughs that come out of the heart and preserve in the memory of age, not only in the memory of the phone. Season’s greetings!
* Technical expert
