There was a time when plague, cholera, black fever had become synonym of death and destruction. The plague in Surat city ate up numerous healthy and happy lives.
Time changed. Technology advanced. Civilization progressed. The focal point of disease incidence changed from infectious to non-infectious diseases. In the race, diseases like cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes etc topped the chart.
With the advent of information and digital technology and its percolation to every nook and corner of life, society is inflicted with a new kind of disease. Thus class of patients are "whatsApp and facebook rogi". WhatsApp is their food, air, water, love, family, work, and everything. Every activity of their life be it relieving themselves in bathroom or sleeping in bed with husband or kids or having food at dinner table, is laced with chat messages from social media.
Sometimes, I wonder how productive and fun is all of this. What sort of temptation or need does it satiate? To my understanding hunger and sex are two primary needs. But even they arise after some routine time interval. Then what is this strange need which is not so well documented in Psychology.
The proliferation of smart phone has led to information addiction disorder. In my opinion, human body follows a self-balancing and self-correcting mechanism.
The day is not far when people will start running away from WatsApp or at least put it on mute for certain hours of the day. In the end, peace of mind is a bigger need than all other induced need. And surely, meditation will emerge as the best medication for WatsApp rogi.
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