The big difference

No, this blog post is not about the difference between man and woman. It's about two different worlds: reality and virtuality.

Some years ago we only had a real life. We met our friends in person and we talked to each other. But things have changed. Now we have a second life, too. A virtual life. We blog, we tweet, we write emails, we have friends on facebook and so on. Some guys even have more virtual than real friends and do only communicate with the computer or the smartphone. When the youth nowadays would be asked what can be used for communication, I guess the last thing they would mention would be the mouth. Instead of talking to each other, they send texts. I've watched a TV show about a family in which the mother sent texts to their children that they should come to the dinner table. Unbelievable, isn't it?

I have also read an article lately that showed that most young people speak in the short language like they use on Twitter. They mix the reality with the virtuality, and so they use words like lol or omg in their daily language. They also don't write whole sentences anymore and that is a big problem for school teachers when their students have to write essays. The beauty of the language will get lost when more and more children use the smartphones and start texting. The earlier they start the more they lose the ability to use the language correctly.

even when they sit together they prefer to communicate with their smartphones

We change. Every decade is different. And so the use of our language and the language itself will change, too. People these days speak differently than, let's say, about 50 years ago. The virtuality is for sure a world we can't live without and the technical development changed our life completely. But it's not only a good thing. When it goes on like this and people use such devices more and more, which I think will definitely be so, then this could, sooner or later, destroy our language. Or at least the language we now know.

I am really glad that I had no cellphone when I was eight. And I don't like it when the eight-year-old foster child of my aunt wants to play with the Gameboy all the time, or the Play Station or Wii or whatever. He also wants his own mobile, but my aunt don't want him to have one and I agree with her on that. At that age no one needs a phone. It's great that you can call your kids, ask where they are when they wanted to meet a friend and aren't back at the stipulated time or when they don't know their way home anymore. Then they can call you and so you can pick them up. It all has advantages and disadvantages.

I was also shocked when I heard about a 1 year old boy who could already handle his father's iPad better than him. For the kids these devices are their life, they would be nothing without their smartphone and without their tablet. They see it as a cool toy and because everyone has such a cool device, everyone thinks it's necessary to have one. I have to admit that I only have a smartphone, which I bought this year. I also have a netbook but I use it for writing only. It's for my college, to work and write. I hate it to read books on my smartphone, I still prefer a 'real' paper book. I also still love to write letters instead of emails - so call me old-fashioned. I don't like to write that much on my smartphone, so I only write short texts or some tweets with it. I guess I could live without my smartphone. I can even leave the house and not take it with me. It wouldn't be a big problem and I wouldn't miss anything, but I'll only do that when my friend or the one I am out with has a phone or I won't be out that long or when I'm not far away from home.

How do you prefer to communicate? What do you need your smartphone for? Do you think that writing in the short language will destroy our language we have now? Not in a blink of an eye of course, or do you think that our language will change anyway? Do you use these short expressions? When is the best age for a kid to get his or her first own device? And could you live without your smartphone?

What are you looking for? -Part 22

This is the final of 22 parts from my first script named 'What are you looking for?' Please make sure you read the other 21 parts before - you find them below that post. I really hope you enjoyed the whole story - would appreciate if you'd share your opinion about it with me. I will soon upload the whole script as a PDF-file that you can read the entire story again.

Kaley, jumps up in the air with Melissa: We did it. We can see again.

The others also seems relieved.

Bill: Successfully landed. Mission accomplished.

Jim: What happened? Why are the girls screaming?

Kaley and Melissa stopped, run towards Jim and hug him. Jim’s confused.

Kaley: You are back. What has the girl done to you? Are you alright?

Jim, ponders: What girl? What are you talking about?

Kaley: The girl that changed our set to look like Star Trek. You were there and formed a big ball with her which caused a light. After that we were here and you were missing.

Jim: I was in the other room, all the time. Reading my kindle. This is such a good story, was totally caught in that crime Christie wrote. It’s such a page-turner. Wish I could write like that.

He shakes his head and frees himself from Kaley’s and Melissa’s hug.

Melissa: You were here all the time? The girl hasn’t done anything to you?

Jim: I don’t know which girl you mean.

Johnny: Wait. You haven’t heard anything? Not the singing, nothing?

Jim: I was reading. What’s up with you guys?

Mayim: I guess it’s not what it looked like. Maybe the Jim we saw who did this with the girl was only a projection. And so was the girl. Like she told us – she wasn’t physically here and everything is not what it looks like. This is the only way she could come in here and flying in the air and doing all the stuff she did.

Kaley: But we saw her. We all saw her.

Jim, looks at her: I didn’t.

Kaley to him: Yeah, you are someone special, sweetie, we all know that.

Jim smiles.

Johnny: I don’t know how she did that and maybe that’s not the point. It’s that we found out the sentence of truth: nothing is ever what it looks like. Some things which are there can’t be seen by us, but sometimes we can see things which aren’t actually existing.

Simon: So we weren’t looking for Jim, and we weren’t looking for coming back to our set, we were looking for the main sentence of the fith season. And that is the key to the sixth.

Bill looks again at his candlestick, which everyone can see as candlestick now. He holds it in his right hand, still standing behin the couch.

Bill: Imagination keeps us alive. As long as I still see my laser sword, I know I am still alive. Imagination is to be able to see things that others can’t, and that is important to survive in this world.

He holds the stick like a sword with both hands, and walks out of the room. Everyone looks at him.

Jim, ponders: What happened to him?

Kaley, claps on his shoulder: This is not what it looks like.

The End  

What are you looking for? -Part 21

This is the 21st of 22 parts from my first script named 'What are you looking for?' Please make sure you read the first 20 parts before - you find them below that post. The last part will come tomorrow.  

Kaley: Yay, we all have our keys. So what’s next? Where’s Jim?

She looks around like everyone, except Bill who is still controling the Enterprise from the couch.

Bill: Ready for landing? Mission’s almost accomplished. Need to go back to normal, need to leave the Enterprise.

Kaley: I like the back to normal and leaving that here. I mean I know we are still on our set but why can’t I still see the things the way they are?

Mayim: Maybe we should find a door.

Johnny wonders: What door?

Mayim: I don’t know. But what do you open with a key?

Melissa: Maybe we have to use all six keys to open sixth season?

Kaley: The door to sixth season? And where is that door?

Bill: Right in front of you. As we all live in our own imagination, we can’t trust our eyes. Everything we see is created in our brain. Everyone focus on other things, and two people see the same but don’t. That’s why nothing is ever what it looks like.

Kaley: What is he talking about?

Kunal: I am not so sure.

Bill: Life is like a computer game, we have the control panel of our own charater in our own game called life. We never play that game alone. We need people to realize our dreams. Believing in them and working hard to make them come true. With their help we can manage all obstacles in life.

Kaley: I still don’t get it.

Johnny: He is refering to everything on fifth season. All the things we figured out.

Kaley: So he was listening? Thought he’s miles away.

Bill, pointed to Kaley: See, this is what it looked like to you. But it’s not what it actually looks like. I am always here, even when you think I am miles away. And so we are all on our set, though it looks like we are somewhere else. Everything can occur to us, change us. And everything is needed to let us grow and continue our game. So let’s finally land and accomplish our mission.

He looks at the couch again which still looks like a control panel.

Kaley: I am not sure, if he is really awake like he said. Or if he wants to look like that because it doesn’t look like that at all. Oh my God, this confuses me.

She rests her right elbow on the kitchen table and holds her head with her right hand on that.

Melissa: We should put our keys together. With everything we learned we can open the next chapter to learn more. More about life, more about relationship, maybe more about physics, too. We’re gonna have definitely more fun.

Leonard: Okay, let’s try this. Come on guys. We make a circle.

Kunal: The circle of life. I love the Lion King.

He smiles while he’s walking in the middle of the room, meeting the other guys and forming a circle.

Simon: Oh come on, dude. You’re not Raj now.

Kunal: What is that supposed to mean? The Lion King is a beautiful movie about life, but also very sad.

Simon: It’s for kids. You’re grown up.

Kunal: It’s not for kids. Some things are for kids AND adults. Also the musical is so great, and not only kids watch this.

Melissa: Stop with that, guys. Let’s try this and focus that we want to see things again the way they are.

They put their keys together, holding it high in the air, in the middle of the circle. Big flash light crosses them, and after the light is gone, everything looks like Sheldon and Leonard’s apartement again.