Our Flaws
Our Flaws
Gabriel looked at the nurse with disinterest while he focused his attention on Peter his son, “I was never loved. I never loved and cared for myself. I have lost it all Peter and it took me this long to realize it, please forgive me.” These were Gabriel’s last words before he died.
Each passing day, people died. Few cases are traceable, others unknown till date. Because of assumptions, we never see it fit to identify the real causes of these deaths. Some deaths could be a result of emotional negligence, bitterness, unforgiveness, psychological issues and lack of love and or attention. But there's a greater killer than these which we are yet to uncover. Who is the hidden killer? We wondered.
Sometimes, searching within the box is the best answer to uncover the hidden killer because man is a thinking being but do we really think? I guess we do or we don't sometimes or maybe never.
Negligence won't allow us to be vigilant and thoughtful, so we sleep off too often even before attempting to think critically about our lives and everything around us. Most people are like Gabriel, they feel unloved but won't speak up. It can happen even in the family setting.
One may wonder if the emergency of the internet ( New Media) with its sophisticated social media platforms grant us the opportunity to be hypersensitive in our immediate environment? Or has social media exchanged the place of family and our communication patterns? Hopefully or maybe not. Interestingly, the internet is a great place and so are our loved ones.
Over the years, there has been no greater connection among us like the influence and power of the new media ( Internet). It has the power to frame, prime, shape and engage us, yet it kills us silently because we are not self disciplined.
The internet is a great marketing place where traders with great potential and marketing skills can sell their products. If you explore it very well, it's not a regrettable community. However, everything good has advantages and disadvantages. And most times, we are easily carried away.
We keep searching for the killer of some destinies, destroyer of marriages, distances in family and or reasons for procrastination, misplaced priority and laziness without looking within us. We are the marketers of these products. Social media platforms are not places for marriage counseling because to some extent, we have battered, heartbroken and frustrated people on the internet ready to destroy what they couldn't get or protect. Be guided when presenting sensitive matters online.
More so, we no longer interact with our loved ones like we used to before the era of social media. Just remember how you couldn't wait for weekends to arrive so that you could visit or stay at home with your family. What about calling your family and friends on the phone, too busy, I guessed. When was the last time you had a great conversation with your wife, husband or children? Today, the revision is the case. Most people are just self centered.
Families no longer communicate with each other anymore, they exchange ' Hellos' and ' Heys' on f*******:, w******p, i********: and other social media platforms. The bond is gradually fading away without them even noticing.
