Modern society

Today, I have spent hours looking up on Google whether the iPhone 5 is better than the Sony Xperia Z or vice versa. I've also looked for Google Glass and other high-technology stuff. I was stunned by all the things the human is capable to invent to make our lives "easier". But, on the other hand, I didn't go to the gym because I was doing that. I could have also done my homework instead.

This has made me think, and I have realized not only how much time we spend looking at a screen doing useless things, but also how modern society's "spirit" affects us: It seems like the greatness of being a human has been reduced to being simply a consumer. Is having the best phone really that important? Is that actually going to make us happier? Or is modern society missing the point of our short life in earth? Sure, technology is useful, but too much of it can consume us. Same happens with expensive clothes brands. We think we'll be cooler if we have an Avercrombie T-shirt than if we have an H&M one. And why is that? Because that's what these mega companies that control the world tell us to think. And we obey them, like 5 year old children. We compete, trying to see who has the most delicious candy. 

But as the Beatles said: "All you need is love". It doesn't say "All you need is an iPhone", or does it? Maybe if Apple paid millions of dollars to Paul McCartney, he might changed the lyrics. Because, after all, we all succumb to the apparent awesomeness of expensive stuff. But that's what it is, just stuff. So think it twice the next time you dream with having something you can't afford, and think of what you have instead: family? friends? love, perhaps? These are the people who actually make you happy. And unless you want to spend the rest of your life having a relationship with Siri, try to care more about these people. You won't regret it.