Technology

I know many resent the advances technology has made in the past few decades, but the discoveries have given many people second and even third chances. A very good friend was recently  admitted into Children's Hospital for an extreme case of meningitis,  complications arose and she ended up with serious amputations. When I first heard the news I was completely devastated, I could hardly focus on anything else while stuck on the unbelievable news that I would never go out and party with her again, 16 short years of dancing and running, and then she was done? After my hysterical phase I began talking to people who actually knew about cases like this, and I realized her situation could have been a lot worse. Thanks to technology, her legs would be relatively easy to make functional again, ruling out a wheel chair burdening her for the rest of her life. Now every time I look around on the bus at the 90% of people who are staring intently at the lit-up screen of an ipod or cell phone my first thought is still, wow this world was better before, but then I think about my friend and the debate begins.