Cremation or burial?

I prefer cremation. I don't want to be put inside a box and buried. It looks like my spirit is locked inside a dark cell and is not given any chance of freedom after death. If my body is burned, I get transformed into smoke and lifted up into the air- a sense of freedom. I'd rather have my body face fire than being rotten inside a dark box.

After death, what's the use of preserving your body and occupying space on the burial ground? Burial seems like an attachment to your dead body. Once you are dead, your dead body has no significance. So just let it go.

Is technology wrongly redefining our reality?

We are living in a world where technological innovations are growing day-by-day. Technology has undoubtedly made our lives faster and has made a lot of things achievable for us but for a price. We are sacrificing our humanity for the sake of so-called "better lifestyle".

You get on a train or bus, you will see people with their new gadgets on display- iPhones, iPods, PSPs and what not. You buy a computer today and within a year (or even before that), a better ones are out on the market to make yours a thing of the past... and most of these things are simply redundant which we can totally live without but we feel we "need" them.

New hardwares and softwares are out on the market everyday claiming to do the same old things in "easier" and "better" ways. They focus on automation but do we really need that? ... and people just run after them saying "wow!".

Technology is fun but if it keeps growing in an uncontrolled pace, then it devalues the humanity. Where is the fun of manually controlling our every moment? Where is the fun of driving a manual car? Where is the fun of just having a landline phone and not having mobile phones to burden our pockets? Have you noticed there are more cars on the street than bicycles or people? All we see is machines around us.

It is sad that our lives are totally based on technology. Imagine a day without electricity in big cities. Everything will simply come to a halt. Children hardly go out and play. They are stuck to their computers and TV sets. People socialise more in the virtual world than in their real lives. We feel comfortable talking to people online.

Our reality is being redefined by the technological revolution. What we used to perceive as reality has become a history. Our reality now is viewed in terms of how well we are utilising and getting accustomed to the technology around us.

The amount of technology we decide use is really up to each individual or a business. We really need to rethink where we are heading. I am not advocating going back to the stone age. I believe we just need a bit of control on the level of technology we wish to introduce in our lives. We certainly need a balance.