A long time ago,
The man lived happily,
Although not familiar with computers,
There is no known television,
There is no known mobile phones,
There is no known internet,
There is no known car or plane.
Wherever they go by foot,
Corresponded with postcards,
See each other or with relatives in the tavern.
Human relations so closely and togetherness.
Now,
Fast moving era,
Humans also participated in move quickly because of it.
Humans feel dominate the world,
Although in fact, artificial technology, had taken control of us.
Technology makes human life knows no barriers of space and time.
But at the same time make people alienated from the real world.
Speak for themselves with inanimate objects called computers or mobile
phones.
Friendly with digital friends.
Ants across the ocean, visible to the eye.
But the elephant in front of the eyelid, invisible to our eyes.
Modern humans,
Feel can not live,
And even would not be able to part,
Without their gadgets,
Hardly a single day without the Internet,
And even feel like to end of life just because of a power failure.
A boy in China,
Even willing to sell a kidney in half of his body,
Just for the sake of being able to buy the latest mobile devices.
When the times change,
Publishing a new edition phones are more sophisticated than the previous
version.
The boy back to think,
Not become conscious because of his foolish act,
But he thinks to look for other organs of his body to buy the latest mobile
phone models.
Humans increasingly trapped,
imprisoned,
Suffer the same progress of the time.
The sophistication and the progress of time,
Created to facilitate human life,
Indulgent man.
However proved that then,
We can not cheat on life.
Always there is the compensation we have to pay for any luxuries of life
that we take.
Don’t we all already know,
That human needs know boundaries,
But human desires no limits.
Because of ignorance,
Humans began to think can not eat without junk food.
Despite their ancestral humans survived and survived only by eating
vegetables and fruit.
Because they defilement,
Humans began to get used to behave as if no one can live without the
privilege of digital devices,
Or no motor vehicles.
Although our ancestors live on their feet to travel,
And count on their fingers to write.
We will never be able to cheat life.
When we take something,
Then there will be reduced and disappear from ourselves.
The more we are taking,
Even taking the rights of others,
So the more lost than ourselves.
Who else shall we swizzle and cheated?
May we all continue to remember,
That we can never really cheated life.
Although a criminal,
Free from the law,
He was never really able to cheat life.
This is called,
Natural law.
©
HERY SHIETRA Copyright.
Dahulu kala,
Kaum manusia hidup
berbahagia,
Meski tiada kenal komputer,
Tiada kenal televisi,
Tiada kenal handphone,
Tiada kenal internet,
Tiada kenal mobil atau
pesawat terbang.
Kemana pun mereka pergi
dengan berjalan kaki,
Berkirim surat dengan kartu pos,
Atau saling berjumpa dengan
kerabat di kedai.
Hubungan antar manusia
demikian erat dan penuh kebersamaan.
Kini,
Zaman bergerak cepat,
Manusia pun turut bergerak
cepat dibuatnya.
Manusia merasa menguasai
dunia,
Meski senyatanya teknologi
buatan telah menguasai manusia.
Teknologi membuat hidup
manusia tak mengenal sekat ruang maupun waktu.
Namun disaat bersamaan
membuat manusia terasing dari dunia nyata.
Berbicara sendiri dengan
benda mati bernama komputer atau handphone.
Berkawan dengan kawan
digital.
Semut di seberang samudera,
tampak oleh mata.
Namun gajah di depan pelupuk
mata, tidak tampak oleh pandangan kita.
Manusia modern,
Merasa tak sanggup hidup,
Bahkan takkan sanggup
berpisah,
Dengan gadget mereka,
Tiada satu haripun tanpa
internet,
Bahkan merasa ingin
mengakhiri hidup hanya karena mati lampu.
Seorang bocah di China,
Bahkan rela menjual separuh
ginjal di tubuhnya,
Hanya demi mampu membeli
perangkat handphone terbaru.
Ketika zaman berganti,
Terbit ponsel baru edisi yang
lebih canggih dari versi sebelumnya.
Sang bocah kembali berpikir,
Bukan menjadi sadar karena
perbuatan bodohnya,
Namun ia berpikir untuk
mencari organ lain dari tubuhnya untuk membeli handphone keluaran terbaru
tersebut.
Manusia kian terkungkung,
Terpenjara,
Menderita dibuat oleh kemajuan
zaman.
Kecanggihan dan kemajuan
zaman,
Dibuat untuk memudahkan hidup
manusia,
Memanjakan manusia.
Namun terbuktilah kemudian,
Kita tak bisa curang terhadap
kehidupan.
Selalu ada kompensasi yang
harus kita bayarkan atas setiap kemewahan hidup yang kita ambil.
Bukankah semua dari kita
tahu,
Bahwa kebutuhan manusia
mengenal batas,
Namun keinginan manusia tiada
mengenal batas.
Karena kebodohan batin,
Manusia mulai berpikir tak
dapat makan tanpa junkfood.
Meski manusia leluhur mereka
selamat dan bertahan hidup hanya dengan memakan sayur dan buah.
Kerena kekotoran batin,
Manusia mulai terbiasa untuk
bersikap seolah tak dapat hidup tanpa keistimewaan perangkat digital,
Atau tanpa kendaraan
bermotor.
Meski para pendahulu kita
hidup mengandalkan kaki mereka untuk bepergian,
Dan mengandalkan jemari
mereka untuk menulis.
Kita tak akan pernah dapat
mencurangi hidup.
Ketika kita mengambil
sesuatu,
Maka akan ada yang berkurang
dan hilang dari diri kita.
Semakin kita banyak
mengambil,
Bahkan mengambil hak orang
lain,
Maka semakin banyak pula yang
hilang dari diri kita.
Siapa lagi yang hendak kita
kecoh dan curangi?
Semoga kita semua dapat terus
ingat,
Kita tak pernah dapat
benar-benar mencurangi hidup.
Meski seorang penjahat,
Bebas dari jerat hukum,
Ia tak pernah benar-benar
dapat mencurangi hidup.
Inilah yang disebut dengan,
Hukum alam.
© Hak Cipta HERY SHIETRA.