The Puppeteer or the Puppet

Its amazing to notice how the Puppet of one time has grown out to be the Puppeteer. The puppet meant to work for its master, for entertaining him, is now ruling and making the master dance to its tunes.

Its something I realised from a very personal(aweful) experience. Losing a mobile- shouldn't that have hurt from the financial view point only. That's supposed to be the parameter for evaluating every materialistic thing. That's what governs the materialistic world, MONEY. It's the sole principle.

Strangely though, the sorrow was hardly for the financial loss. You tend to associate yourself to these materialistic things emotionally. Never for one second do we realize how we are playing into the hands of the puppet, the control of our lives.

The technology governs us. It makes us feel powerful, weak, in or out of control. It helps us make memories, keep memories and then so easily lose memories. We are so fragile, standing on a crust of ice, yet we feel so firm standing on the base of uncertainties. We are living close to being in a matrix, in illusions and eluding the realities.

Such over dependence has grave consequences. You make petty things an important part of you and once its gone you feel mutilated. You associate more importance with it than so many beautiful things and people around you. The irony is, something which is developed to keep you "connected" actually "disconnects" you from your surroundings.

When did the Puppet make this transformation, we'll never know. Will we ever be able to get back the control? This is something which now seems improbable. The over-dependence will only grow and the slaves will be more helpless than ever before. The matrix isn't far now, only this time it won't be that dramatic. The day the world loses all its electronic data would be no less than the Doomsday.

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