LIFE MANUAL PART 2

This post is long overdue and I know people will kill me if I go more than a month without blogging about the AI's. I am so sorry but you know sometimes we end up getting lost in this jungle called life. Then again I am a believer in taking a break from this digital world from time to time. By the end of this post I hope you will be fully convinced on joining the crew. Spoiler alert: It might be as long as Bikozulu's blog posts. Needless to say, I am about to bash myself and my friends( sorry unfocused students lol) because our recent fetish on snapchatting is the best case study for what AI's have done to us. So it is in this light that I found the relevance of having Life Manual Part 2 finally! I know Arnold I have answered your prayers....Let's get started!!
Apparently, people are calling me a snapchat addict and like any normal addict...I keep denying. A few weeks back I had a reality check where I figured out that most of us have little or no real life connections. What do I mean? Quick question... When was the last time you just met someone new for the first time face to face and had a one-on-one interaction with this person? If it's recent....stop reading this post...it ain't for you!! But if you are like me who has millions of friends on FB, thousands of points on snapchat and so many followers on Twitter and Instagram....keep reading...
Well don't kill me for saying this but we have based our whole lives-friendships, relationships, business deals... name it...on Social Media sites, a result of AI's. If you are still waiting for robots to take over the world in 2050, wake up!! They are already taking over... The minute you are in a bus headed somewhere and you are sitted alongside a 'stranger', (why the quotes??because most probably he/she might be your follower on IG) you just put your earphones...keep yourself busy with candy crush until you see a battery low warning. I dont know if you are seeing this but...what stops you from continuing to play games or listen to music...is your AI!!
A few weeks ago, my friends and I went for lunch and as usual while waiting for the food we had ordered, we were all engrossed on our phones while chatting casually about life. Well I ran out of people to chat with on whatsapp and my battery was low and felt like I was surrounded by robots when I put my phone down. So I blurted out....
"Let's put our phones down and the first one to touch his/her phone pays the entire bill!" 
Those phones were automatically slammed down and the conversation flowed amazingly. It was like our brains had been opened because the rate the ideas were popping up, we could have warmed up to the infamous Shark Tank investors.
So what am I driving at? We miss so many opportunities when we look down at our phones and tablets. When you stare at the screens of your computers and laptops displaying social media sites ask yourself what you stand to gain socially... What is love nowadays? Texts all through saying the same old things till it becomes a cliche.
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"Morning babe"
"Morning..."
"How was your night?"
"All's good...let's talk later. I have some work to do."
"Cool"
*************six hours later**************
"Hey how was your day?"
"It was cool...am really tired...can we talk tomorrow."
" Okay. Goodnight."
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I don't know about you but I am a hopeless romantic. Am old school to some extent. Random sweet love quotes and love poems every now and then are part of what love should encompass. But nooo these AI's have ruined it all. Nobody writes love letters anymore...nobody concentrates on calligraphy... (sweet high school memories)
And this is why our generation has become a generation of lazy lovers. You want to send a message to your girl, you go copy paste some love poem written by some poet from the 19th century with all the wierd English words and it's a wrap,huh?
Why don't you sit down and draft a letter to your loved one. Take notes from the past. As much as it may seem shady, it will be much appreciated by the significant other. Even if your handwriting sucks, the effort is what counts (consolation to y'all).
Whoa! Let me conclude loves...that was a lot of content I had for you all. I think a YouTube channel is needed for my digressions but that's a story for another day. For now, when you go for that evening walk, leave your phone at home and embrace the beauty of the world. Appreciate the little priceless things and go out and meet new people. There is a video I will attach in my next post that emphasizes more on the power social media has over our social lives. As for now let me wish you a lovely weekend filled more with laughter sounds than keypad tones. **kisses