Life is Funny

It is natural for parents to help their kids avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that they went through in their lives. They want to see their kids succeed. They want to help their kids be the best that they can be.. 

Finally, they admittedly want their kids to go farther in life, then the parents did themselves. They love their kids, have labored their entire lives to raise and guide them. They have a lot of time, effort, worries, frustrations, happiness and tears all spent and created in raising their children.

Our future generation, today’s children are part of this growing dilemma to make life easier and simpler.

Ever since the industrial revolution, and as technology progresses though, we’re creating life “aids” that avoid us from doing work.

Today’s society is lazy. Tomorrow’s generation will be even lazier.

Instead of milking the cows, we now buy milk at the store. Some people even get it delivered to their front door.

Instead of making ourselves a coffee in the morning which involves quite a lengthy procedure. Not only do we have to warm up the water, mix the ingredients, but now there is a cup to wash!!  No, instead we’ll just head to work, stop by a coffee shop drive thru, and idle for 15 minutes while someone makes our coffee for us, and we can throw out the cup when we’re done with it.

Instead of walking 3 miles down the road to see a friend, we hop in the car, or just phone, fax, or email.  We don’t even bother to phone them now, because that involves a whole conversation. No, we’ll just text them a sentence of what we wanted to say. 

If we wanted to watch a movie, we’d plan a night out. We’d go to the theatre, stand in line, buy a snack, sit down, watch the movie and come home.  As generations passed, we use to just go to the video store, rent a movie, watch it, and return it.  Today, we click buttons on a remote control because this way we don’t have to “go” anywhere. We can sit on our couch and stay there.

So what’s next?  I will tell you:

Instead of milk delivered to the door, we’ll probably have robots that will take it from the door to the fridge.

We won’t want coffee, because we’ll have vitamin patches stuck to our bodies, so what when we feel we want a coffee, the chemicals automatically instantly release from skin patch, making us feel that we’ve just enjoyed a coffee, thereby releasing dopamine to our brain. 

Instead of texting our friends, we’ll have new technology that can respond to our thoughts or voice, so that we don’t actually have to pickup a device and use our fingers to type, it will just “know” what we want to say, and to whom.

When we want to see a movie, we’ll be able to gaze up at the TV, say something trivial like “i want to see a movie, you know what I like” and that’s it. We won’t have to choose, search, or find anything.

This way, we can be spoiled lazy people — exactly what our previous generations have helped us become. This is our destiny of tomorrow.

This is how we’ll satisfy ourselves in the future. When we want something, a second later, our brain feels that we did actually receive it. This way there is no wasted time or effort. It will be instant gratification to our every want, 24×7.

Isn’t life funny and yet truly horrific at the same time?