Perdition or paradise

This is a self introspecting article on the conditions I am living in. I am put up in the most hep and happening city which was once famously known as the garden city, later the pub city and now the Silicon valley of India. This gives a nice rosy picture of the living conditions.  
 I have never faced any serious crisis. It’s been a pretty smooth journey of life so far. There have been many sweet memories. I sometimes feel really fortunate to have been born in this era of economic and technological boom. It’s a wonderful time to live on earth. The developments that the world has undergone in the half century have changed our lifestyles and have put us in position of strength and comfort. Today we can sit in one corner of the world and communicate with a person on the other side of the globe. I can click a snap over here in Bangalore and share it with my friends and relatives living far apart. I can share my feelings and emotions with my parents even though I am not in proximity to them. All this makes me really jealous of the time I am living in and I wish I was born a bit late to enjoy more of these wonderful things. The children of today get access to loads and loads of cartoons, computer games and various varieties of cuisines which weren’t available during my childhood. Just a thought of the developments that are going to take place in future leaves me mesmerized. The future seems so bright and I feel like I am walking into a paradise.
 But at the same time I am stuck in a conundrum about the world I am living in. Today moral and humanitarian values are denigrating day by day. The good old samaritans are fast disappearing and may soon become a rarity. I still remember the good old school days when I could trust my auto driver and travel all alone to school through isolated areas. But that’s a huge risk now with myriad instances of robberies and other criminal offences by the auto drivers (People in Bangalore will know it better). With the advent of internet chatting and video conferencing we hardly get to communicate with people in person. More time is spent chatting and emailing. This is a sad part of the present world. Today Neighbors are strangers. Compare this to good old days when neighbors used to share things and get jelled along with each other pretty well and spent quality time together. Everyone’s slowly detaching from the other people and becoming nuclear. This is a dangerous phenomenon and needs to be tackled. As this leads to a collapse of moral and emotional support . 
 The so called problem of generation gap is nothing but a fall out of this. Today socializing means moving out in pubs and parks. I would prefer it to be a healthy get together of people on festivals and special occasions. Well I guess there is lot more about the present day people(which includes me) which I don’t like. I guess that ll make it too boring a reading.