Forget Gadget!

       This isn't a statement of regret because I forget to bring my entire gadget wherever I go. This is a suggestion from me to you all or a dare (if you prefer to called it that way), to forget about your gadgets or ignore it or you give your gadgets (that's including your sore thumbs, eyes and ears) a day off. Use that time off to reconnect yourself with what important in your life like family, friends, neighbors, etc. Connect yourself with real peoples, people you can talk with while you can see their sincerity in their eyes, you can see the corner of their eyes and lip wrinkled when their smiled. People you can touch, hug and pat while you laugh with them, not someone who posts fancy pictures every 10 minutes with sophisticated tagline. Just connect yourself with good honest people around you, people whom sometimes we ignore a lot when we focused to chat with someone on our social media through our gadgets.

       This thing about gadgets was in my head since forever but I don't know why I haven't written it until today. Maybe it because of what happen a couple day ago when me, my Dad, Mom and Sister visiting a family relative in a hospital.While I was waiting my time to come inside our relative room (we cannot all come at once, two person per visit), I was sitting pateintly outside the room while the other room door widely open in front of me, there was a sick father in bed, a son in law, a grandson and a daughter in that room. What bug me the most was that they can't even spare 2 minutes to unglue their eyes from their gadgets to talk, hug, or tend to the sick father. 
The daughter keep looking into her tablet while sitting in a chair on the foot of her father sick bed, her son following his Mom lead, keep playing game on his Smartphone while the Dad walking in and out the room to answer his cell phone (Isn't Hospital supposed to prohibited cell phones, etc.?!). Dear God, what is wrong with you people? Have you lost your heart and brain somewhere? Hug your father, talk with him, comfort him and take care of him while you still can. What if God take him and the last thing he saw is the back of your head? And what if you are the sick person? Do you want the person you love the most think that their gadgets is more important than you?

       Please be real and love what's right, like real people not a dead thing! I don't hate gadgets just dislike the people who seem addicted to it. I admitted that we need our cell phone, Smartphone, iPod, Tablet, laptop, etc. but use it properly, wisely, don't let that piece of metal and plastic ruin and rule out your life. I know that connect with people through social media is important to strengthen your relationship or friendship especially if they live far from you or they live abroad, but do you have to ignore the people around you while you at it? Maintain your social media accounts when you alone and you got nothing better to do than sighing and breathing, but when you with family and friends, go talk and interact with them while God still give you time to live. 

       Use your precious time with precious people, kids' growth you know, your gadgets NOT! Watch them grow and play with them not your gadgets before they move out and spread their wings. Through social media you cannot see their sincerity, it's just words they type while they doing something else like eating. Here, in Indonesia we had famous case of cold blooded murder couple who post their condolences, their sadness through the victim social media account (they were friends when they were in high school), it turn out they are who killed her (Ade Sara R.I.P.) and thank God Indonesian police can closed this case pretty quickly. That's why you can trust your social media 100% because it is hard to see their sincerity. So pay attention to what's important in your life, knows your priority well and may I suggest you to give your gadgets a break and give your time to your love one? So, Lets' Forget Gadgets!