Sometimes I feel that technology and science has made our lives quite complicated. Gone are the days when we could just be fancy free. Today we are more aware of the various diseases and infections, hence taking care at every step to avoid contracting any disease.
Just look at our daily lives. We have started using sanitizers and many people make it a point to carry a bottle in their bag. We use this every time instead of washing our hands with water. It has become such a phobia to avoid any kind of virus or bacterial infections through contact with skin. When we step out we make sure we carry water and keep buying mineral water all the time. Do we dare drink water anywhere in public? We will not risk sipping filtered water in the hotel even. Can we hope to do what our ancestors did during their times, to stop by the river and drink from the springs? Never. Even if when we go on a trek our sanitizers and water bottles go with us.
We have so many products that are in the market which are used at home and offices to keep the micro organisms at bay. Both in offices as well as homes, it has become a common practice for us to use disinfectants and detergents with antiseptic properties to fight the bacteria. We see to stock up on cleaning liquids, insect repellents and the works.
With more and more technology, we also seem to be getting more and more delicate in terms of our disposition. We are growing less resistant to the environmental conditions. If you look around you will see that every other person suffers from some kind of respiratory infection or disease. With every weather change we find ourselves falling sick with running nose and throat infection which if untreated gets aggravated and effects the lungs as well. We tend to consider these lightly and do not treat them as some kind of disease, with the result that we end up taking antibiotics all the time and our intake of medication is increasing. Can we dare not to have zithromax at home? We are now in the habit of keeping new stock of Zithromax all the time along with other medicines like Nimesulide as well as Paracetamol etc. Our home kit of medicines is expanding over the period. Earlier we use to stock only pain killers, but now we have begun to keep stocks of general antibiotics as well as other types of medicines including antacids as well as syrups and ointments too. Thanks to the internet we can also order these online anytime and hence it helps to know that we can receive supplies immediately without having to rush to the chemist.
At the end of it I really do not know whether our lives have become complicated or do we thank modern medicine for having made it possible for us to have these wonder drugs and cures at our finger tips?. Whatever be it, the fact remains that my medicine box gets to travel with me everywhere I go and is refilled every now and then.
