🐼 Such a weird time to be alive... (are we?)
Sometimes I doubt I’m a bot, we all are.
Such a weird time to be alive... (are we?)
Sometimes I doubt I’m a bot, we all are.
Heyaa
Have you watched any of the Men in Black movies? If you haven’t, it’s time you do.
That sci-fi is becoming real. Now, it may not be aliens-inside-humans, but bots-inside-humans for sure.
Almost everyone is a bot today (or a bot in the making). I can smell the bot in you.
Actually, sometimes I doubt I’m a bot. Especially when I fail the "Confirm you're a human" test. Maybe I’m the bot I should be afraid of losing the job to.
I smoked crack, isn't it? I swear I haven’t. I’m as sober as you.
I’ve got a strong gut-wrenching (assuming bots have guts) feeling that I’m no longer a human. At least, not among the species that lived some 50 years ago.
A conversation last week made me realise that we, as humans, breathe a different form of oxygen today, to be in shape and in working condition.
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OK, back to my story…
Here’s a simplified version of the conversation:
Friend - Hello, how are you?
Me - Alive.
F - Just alive?
M - Yes. Wi-Fi is down. And I feel like doing nothing. Seems there’s nothing in life without it. I feel the same most of the time when the Internet is off.
F - True, the Internet is like oxygen.
See… The Internet signal is indeed the new oxygen. Turn it off for a day, and people will die a slow death of boredom.
You can’t function without it. You're crippled.
In its absence, we perspire, we start feeling thirsty. Our minds shut down.
Everyone needs a daily recharge of the Internet, even for 2-3 hours if not the whole day. In fact, over the years, we have developed inside some form of wireless charging to keep ourselves alive in case the signals go out.
Such a weird time to be alive, isn’t it? Are we? Are we actually alive, or being kept alive by invisible bots inside humans?
I would go by the latter option. Artificially alive like C3PO.
Oh, that reminds me I do identify myself with Sheldon many times. Expression-less, devoid of emotions, and almost always mechanical. When Leonard said “Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you're not a real boy” to Sheldon, I felt it.
So, you see, everything points to me being a bot, living inside a human somehow. Are you, too? Or you're actually alive? Like biologically.
Leaving you with that today. (Reply or comment your thoughts if you “feel” like)
Bidding adieu.
Live long and prosper.
See you next week, with another story.
You've definitely touched and even smoked the pot my friend....just that it's not mine!🤭
But on a different note, I don't think just a weak Wi-Fi signal makes us creative folks crippled. You can read a book, write (literally....not keying in but with a pen...your fingers wrapped around it...that we somehow seem to have forgotten), or simply dream of the plot of that novel you've been dying to write for....some 2-3 years now ...or perhaps even more!🤣
Feel what I meant there?☝️