Can virtual life substitute your real one?
When was the last time you packed a picnic basket and scooted off with friends and family on a weekend trip, or spent a lazy Sunday reading your favourite book, or enjoyed a game of chess or carom at home? Maybe yesterday or an hour ago, is that what your status message reads? Or is that what your virtual life update of the hour is? Well, it might sound like an oxymoron, but some strongly feel that virtual life is a ‘real’ nice place to be! But the irony is that there is more to real life than virtual life. The rituals of family get-togethers, chat sessions between friends, relishing art and theatre, playing a rugged and nerve-racking game of tennis, basketball or cricket, are evidently dying a slow death in the present-day scenario due to alarming time constraints. Yet strangely, people have become hooked to a virtual life when the real one was already quite a handful!
Virtual life is a computer simulation of life, which gives us humans a platform to live a life of our dreams. A fantasy world can be created and lived in. One can not only buy houses, clothes, cars and food, run shops and earn money, adopt children, hold art exhibitions; you can even teleport your avatar from one destination to another in a jiffy, express various emotions, own virtual real estate and even own virtual pets capable of being trained! One way of looking at such life is how Dr. Ajay Pal Singh, Psychiatrist, Max Health Care, sees it, “I feel it has more positives than negatives. It’s a good way of venting out emotions. It acts like an escape from the day-to-day drudgery. It can be related to day-dreaming and it fosters creativity if indulged in moderation.” Of course excess of anything is bad and things meant for our recreation have now been given so much importance that many are slaves of it without as much as realising the same.
When was the last time you packed a picnic basket and scooted off with friends and family on a weekend trip, or spent a lazy Sunday reading your favourite book, or enjoyed a game of chess or carom at home? Maybe yesterday or an hour ago, is that what your status message reads? Or is that what your virtual life update of the hour is? Well, it might sound like an oxymoron, but some strongly feel that virtual life is a ‘real’ nice place to be! But the irony is that there is more to real life than virtual life. The rituals of family get-togethers, chat sessions between friends, relishing art and theatre, playing a rugged and nerve-racking game of tennis, basketball or cricket, are evidently dying a slow death in the present-day scenario due to alarming time constraints. Yet strangely, people have become hooked to a virtual life when the real one was already quite a handful!
Virtual life is a computer simulation of life, which gives us humans a platform to live a life of our dreams. A fantasy world can be created and lived in. One can not only buy houses, clothes, cars and food, run shops and earn money, adopt children, hold art exhibitions; you can even teleport your avatar from one destination to another in a jiffy, express various emotions, own virtual real estate and even own virtual pets capable of being trained! One way of looking at such life is how Dr. Ajay Pal Singh, Psychiatrist, Max Health Care, sees it, “I feel it has more positives than negatives. It’s a good way of venting out emotions. It acts like an escape from the day-to-day drudgery. It can be related to day-dreaming and it fosters creativity if indulged in moderation.” Of course excess of anything is bad and things meant for our recreation have now been given so much importance that many are slaves of it without as much as realising the same.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Session at IMA Indore
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