P2:Organize your Speech

Balancing the Apples

A for Apple was the first thing that we were all taught in school.

What comes to our minds when we hear the word Apple??

Steve jobs ..Technology..Health..Newton...

Isn’t it  amazing that ,one of the first words I learnt to speak as a kid is my speech topic for today.

A very Good morning to  fellow Toastmasters and dear Guests.

I S for Surabhi am here to talk about my experiences on when and why I decided to balance the  two most prominent apples.

You all must be wondering what are the two apples I am referring to.

I define:

The First Apple ,As Steve jobs introduced it to me. The fascinating world of technology.

The Second Apple ,which is many times overlooked because of the first one,My health.

One day I fell ill due to,lack of sleep.Thanks to the no. of hours I spent with my phone and laptop.

After blaming them for a while I began wondering how different life would have been if I did not use the numerous things that technology has to offer.

I wished for a day without technology and voila...

The wish was granted.

I woke up next morning, got a moment to take a deep breath, as I did not have to reply to any unread messages or missed calls.

I said my prayers unlike the other days where the day starts with Linkin park and ends with listening to Sir A.R  Rahman’s Music on my iPod.

I had breakfast with my family and surprisingly had so much to talk to them about various things happening in my life ,instead of making dinner plans with friends on Whatsapp.

I could concentrate on things I was doing as did not have distractions of buzzing messages or ringing calls.

I was about to leave home when my mom showered me with her where,when,why list of questions.

Where are you going?

When will u return home?

It was soon that I realized that The place where I work did not  exists,technology being its foundation.

With no options available to while away time,I planned to go shopping.

I was  not allowed to stay out for long as I did not have a mobile phone to keep my mother updated about my whereabouts.

I planned to call my friend for company and had to search the telephone directory for her contact no. it was definitely a tedious job.

As we had no maps/ navigatorsto refer to  it took us more time to reach our destination

I ran short of cash while paying for the dress I purchased.

I had no debit/credit card that I could use and neither ATM’s to withdraw money.

Thanks to the No-Technology day,I had to come back home without buying the lovely dress.

I faced so many other issues while living this wish day.

No Internet

No facebook

No booking of online tickets for travel and entertainment.

No skype

Are few of the hundreds and thousands of inconveniences I faced.

The day finally ended and I slept peacefully.

I breath a sigh of relief next morning when I woke up and  saw my phone at the bed side.

I realized how easy has my life been with the help of technology and it gets better day by day.There are so many things that technology offers us which we take for granted.

Another thing I realized that morning is if a day without technology was this bad, then I guess a life without a good health would be worse.

On the wish day,I found a lot of time to relax  and lot of time for my hobbies too.

I got to spend time with my  family.

I decided that the time technology helps me save in my day to day activities should be spend without technology.

Did I forget to mention??

That morning when I woke up  myQuotes app prompted and it read:

” I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

From that moment I fear more of proving Einstein right and so have decided to try and keep a balance between both the Apple worlds.