Mobile Phones - a great invention?

 

Mobile phone is a good technology which is not lacking from our lives. 

Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is very convenient. The most advantage of having a mobile phone is you can communicate to your family and your friends no matter what where you are. For instance, you can contact easily to your friends by calling or sending messages everywhere without electricity. It is maybe the main reason why almost all people today choose to own a mobile phone. From the customer’s point of view, it is obvious that mobile phones assist you in business a lot, such as, make schedule of working, surf the internet, and keep in touch with their companies. Moreover, you can relax with mobile phone’s applications, for example, play games, listen to music, or chat with your friends. 

On the other hand, there are also disadvantages. Using a lot mobile phone can harm your brain, particularly teenager and children who are under 16 years old. If you use mobile phones too much, you will get bad effects like dizzy, blood-brain barrier, or ears problems. In addition, when you use mobile phones while you are driving, you will get an accident. It is essential not good for you and others. Moreover, “radiations emitted from the phone are dead harmful for the eardrum”, has proved by many scientist. 

Owning a mobile phone in your hand is you can solve many issues and hold most of information around the world. Even though is not good for your health and you have to protect yourself from bad effects of mobile phones if you choose to have one

 

The advantage and disadvantage of the Internet

 

The Internet has provided great benefits, but at the same time it has also created new problems and inequalities. 

No one can deny the benefits from the Internet as it helps us a lot in our life. However, the Internet also has many stints and caused many problems to people. 

For one thing, while we can get the latest news from the Internet fast, we have to deal with a situation that these information is not arranged organizing and sometimes the information is not true. For example, when I have to find some information about protein, I search it on Google and there are a large number of websites with the same information, even some of them provide the wrong one which is completely different from my textbook. 

Besides, when surfing the Internet, people often worry about personal information leaking, spam or junk mail. For instance, you want to buy some goods online, you have to provide some of your information to the website so that they can deliver them to you. Maybe your information is hacked and the hackers can use it for much bad purpose like buying other things using your account...Your e-mail box can receive some spam that you don't want and you feel unsafe when you think that a person is following you in some ways. 

Furthermore, although we can use the Internet as a means of entertainment with a lot of interesting things like listening to music, chatting, some of them are really time-consuming and harmful to your health. When you are addicted to chatting, game online, it is hard to give it up. A few years ago, a Korean student spent more than a day sitting in front of the computer playing computer games, when his parents looked for him, they found out that he had died in his room, which was a sad story. 

In conclusion, I think people should balance the time using the Internet and ensure that it does not do any harm to you.

 

Time Management

Everyone says that time is precious. This is because time once lost cannot be regained. 

"Time is more precious than money."

This is very true as money once lost can be regained but time once lost is lost forever and it can never be regained. 

We always hear people speaking about having no time at all, but I think a person who is systematic will never feel the lack of time in their lives. People who are successful in life are those who use their time intelligently and do their work on time without wasting it at all. 

We have heard the saying, “Early to bed, early to rise.”  This is how successful people use their time as rising early gives them lots of time to do all their work and also enough time for leisure. There won’t be any confusion in their life. 

When we are young we feel that we have lots of time to do our work, so we enjoy by eating, drinking and merry making with our friends. Later when we grow up we regret, but we have already wasted our time and that time will never come back. Making the right use of time makes us responsible. Eating proper food on time keeps us healthy. Doing exercises at the right time also keeps us fit and strong. Thus those who eat and exercise at the right time can lead a healthy life. We as students should make the right use of time by doing our homework and learning our lessons daily. This will be the correct use of our time. If we learn our lessons daily it will help us during our exams, we can score good marks. 

If we manage our time properly, we can become successful in our lives!

 

 

My realizations during this pandemic

 

It was like a dream. Two year back in my life, I had all the fun that I wanted without any kind of limitation. All of a sudden, everything changed with the outbreak of Covid 19 viral pandemic. 

"Pandemic" was the first strange word which was added to my vocabulary and sooner it was filled with a number of new words related to the viral disease. The habitual life I spent came to an end without even giving a chance to take a look at the beautiful moments I had with my loved ones. With the unexpected viral infection, which attacks human respiratory system and immunity system, people of Sri Lanka had to change their habitual life style in 180°. People had to cover their respiratory organs using face masks and they started to wipe their hands using hand sanitizer liquids. It was the first visible change in the habitual life of Sri Lankans. Government had to implement new laws and reinforce the Quarantine legal provisions in order to minimize the spread of this deadly virus. People had to tolerate months of curfew ignoring their personal difficulties while the highly dedicated health sector were risking their lives to save the infected people. 

This is a tiny living virus which threatened the powerful human community, and it forced everyone to adjust according to the situation. 

The concept of "work from home" came into practice with the health policies. There, the superiors allowed their subordinates to complete their job role while staying safe. Online learning methods were introduced to continue the educational activities as the government could not risk the lives of children. Therefore, from the primary schools to the universities followed the same way of online teaching. 

We all know that, Sri Lanka is a country with a great tourist attraction. But because of the viral pandemic, almost all the airports were closed and no one could travel across the countries. So, the people who were engaged in tourism related jobs had to face a critical condition. Not only the tourists but also the foreign employed Sri Lankans could not come to the island and it was a great challenge to the government. After several meetings and discussions, with some conditions and limitations, Sri Lankan government started the tourism industry again under severe health guidelines. 

We are still living with the virus, but we can't hold our lives till the virus is demolished. Government can only impose laws. We, the community must obey and follow the rules. Then we can defeat this threatening deadly challenge together

 

The use of language for ethnic co-existence

“Communication works for those who work at it” 

As humans, we have the golden blessing to communicate in an advanced level, when compared with other creatures. We use different languages to address different situations. It can be a simple smile, an emotion or a verbal language which has the power of breaking or making hearts and also the ability to create peace or violence. Therefore “learning a language’ is an important thing where “using the language” plays the most important part as it reflects our inner thoughts like a mirror. 

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow”-Oliver Holmes

We are not born similar to this world. Different people representing different nationalities, various ethnicities have to work together promoting collaboration between each other. To make it happen, the “correct use of language” in communication is a must. Though we represent different countries, though we are coming from different ethnicities, the core of life is similar. The qualities such as humanity, mutual respect, understanding and most importantly “use of the language in a correct way” leads to a peaceful society with minimum conflicts between different ethnicities. 

“We all smile in the same language” 

In the modern society, where people search only for wealth and power, we can witness the improper use of language which burns thousands of lives in the hell. If they could use their language to create peace, they could have stopped all the violence, to make the world a better place. 

Having the knowledge about a language is important, but using the language is the most important communicating skill when it comes to the sensitive areas such as ethnic co-existence. “Learn other languages to make it possible to understand others – use the language to spread positivity as it is a responsibility of us all.”

 “If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart”- Nelson Mandela