Pitfalls Behind the Convenience ("The Veldt" Reflecion)

　
　Nowadays, as the technology develops, our life has become much quicker and more convenient. It gave us many advantages, but also has been leading us to indulge in the convenience. Becoming tame by the quickness and the convenience, people depend upon the machineries, but never consider the side effects behind it.　

　Perhaps the changes that we have experienced in recent 50 years would be bigger than those in previous hundreds of years. It's only a short time since those amazing contraptions such as computer, mobile phone, internet, or navigation were invented. We already got used to use those in every part of our life, and maybe our descendants would consider those as if they must be in their life necessarily. No, maybe these are already happening now. We don't search lots of books to find information for our homework. We use our cell phone all the time, and some of us can't live with their cell phone. Children spend their whole day on raising their level up in the on-line game, instead of playing soccer outside with their friends.　

　If we give ourselves up to the comforts and become lazy, it'll be possible for us to live the life that we haven't been wanting. These days we are living much more comfortable life, but we are kind of losing the touch of humanity. The developed technology is supposed to release us from pressures, but actually we're getting more stressed out as days go by. We had always walked to the destination on our feet, however, now we complain about the traffic jam and say it's wasting our time. Previously, we could bear the inconvenience and lived happily, but now, our expectation is getting higher and higher as days go by, and we can't stand even a small problem. If we continue this, we will become the slaves of the technology, just as the children in "The Veldt", who couldn't stand life without the convenience from the automatic house and killed their own parents. We can use the technology, but shouldn't be controlled by it.　

　Sometimes, we can write to our parents asking how they are on letter paper, instead of sending an e-mail on internet. Turning off our cell phone for one day may teach us how we are dependent upon the machineries. When driving, we can turn off our navigator sometimes, and look at the map or ask the passersby.　

　Some people may think it's time-wasting to spontaneously live such inconvenient life in spite of the quick and handy way. However, we need to look back upon the past, when we didn't have such developed technology as now. We had to do lots of things without help from the machineries, but we still lived happy life, and there was even less murmurs about the inconvenience around us!