Wednesday, September 28, 2005

sensibilities disappear

The age of technology has finally overtaken us, and remove all sensibilities from our souls...

With the coming of the faceless era, people freely abuse the anonymity or the lack of instant retaliation that the internet accords them. They write whatever they like, verbally abuse whoever they fancy, and speak their minds in such profanities that it's hard to imagine that those words actually belong to a face. The malice and hatred piercing through the guise of binary numbers is more painful than perhaps an actual confrontation. There is nothing worse than someone who sneakily stabs you in the dark when you least expect it.

My heart bleeds for all those who have been victims of such situations, be they people I'm close to or not. May words never attain such an authority over who we perceived ourselves to be. Rather always let God be the judge.