Life is more than a click
- Priya Asthana
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min read
Nowadays, I see digitalisation of every activity. I find so many hobbies ( for example – pottery, colouring ) appearing in digital form and people rationalize their screen time with such activities.
The patience needed for real colouring or pottery will never be realized when we are doing it on our smart phones, just with few clicks.
We can surely create many masterpieces in less time but isn’t that count deceptive?
The worst part of these digitalised version of hobbies is that we feel that we are doing something creative.
I believe the most important virtue needed for creativity is patience and perseverance which gets completely defied in the process of digital hobbies. In real life, you need to wait for your pot to dry before you can colour. On a smart phone, it is just a matter of click.
In real life, if you make a blunder while painting you have to recreate the pot from starting.
On a smart phone, it is just a matter of click and you can undo your not so beautiful actions.
In real life, there is no click for undo. You have to just redo with more focus.
I sometime crochet. When I make a counting/estimating mistake there, I need to open it and redo it. I can not just click a button and resume from the desired point.
Lets literally get our hands dirty and nurture our souls. Only dirty hands have power to nurture any soul.
Clicking fingers can be very poky in long term.
Life is not all about a click, Life is more than just a click!
I loved how the blog reminds us that real life isn’t a series of quick fixes or instant thrills, but moments you have to sit with and really feel, like letting clay dry before you paint. It made me think of a time I procrastinated take my online exam until the last minute and realized there’s no undo button in real learning, just like there’s none in real pottery, you have to engage fully and mess up sometimes, and that’s where the growth happens.
Reading “Life is more than a click” reminded me that real engagement, patience and depth much like in scientific inquiry can’t be reduced to instant gratification or surface‑level actions. In our work, every nuance matters: carefully structuring a manuscript, clarifying complex ideas, and ensuring scientific journal submission editing reflects both rigor and empathy takes time, reflection and often multiple revisions. Just as the blog gently argues that true creativity and learning emerge when we slow down and get our hands dirty, so too does the journey of refining research manuscripts extend beyond quick fixes into a process of thoughtful polishing and meaningful contribution