Hell hath no fury like the rage that boils inside of you when that little spinning rainbow pinwheel pops up on your computer and freezes your screen. It seems every day brings new advancements in technology that are supposedly going to make our lives easier… if we can get them to work properly.

These devices have been created by the greatest minds in our generation, advancing society decades ahead of our time, but then again maybe not because by the time they actually load it will be the 22nd century. Companies are quick to sell products as “state of the art,” “limited edition” and available in a total of… wait for it… TWO colors. But in reality, people are just paying hundreds of dollars to run out of storage after downloading one of their updates to “fix” the malfunctions they failed to resolve before selling it in the first place.

I was fortunate enough to grow up before the technological takeover hit too hard. Nowadays society is dependent upon technology for everything. What is meant for convenience has become more of a nuisance in my experiences. Every single teacher I have had in my high school career has spent at least one class period trying to get their lesson set up and failing due to faulty technology alone. The excuse of your dog eating your homework is now that your school issued laptop had to update or wouldn’t connect to the internet… only it’s not a lie.

We have become victims to “the spinning pinwheel of death,” as I like to call it. Sure modern engineering has proven beneficial, but is it so hard for society to accept that sometimes “the old fashioned way” is the best way? Everyone is so concerned with improving and perfecting what is already functional that these “advancements” are actually counter-productive set-backs. It is time to ditch the glitches of modern technology and stop relying on machines to run our lives for us when more often than not, they won’t run themselves.