VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

Is it for Real?

 

 

 

Community is compose of individuals that live together in a certain place and time that shares common interests or even common goal, having common rights and privileges. For example, the community in general, we have this common right to life, to be protected .etc. Moreover, a community has this physical presence (tangible) to each other so that they could be a true and real community. On the other hand, virtual reality is quite different from what we describe as community in our own thoughts. Some say that virtual reality is just an illusion, not real for it exists only in mind. Yes! Perhaps the validity of what they say is acknowledgeable in the sense that it doesn’t have a sensible part.

 

“Though I cannot be there physically on your special day, but I guarantee that my heart is there” I often hear these words that somehow got my attention to reflect on. How mysterious these words that could consul somebody’s heart when they felt that they were taken for granted by someone who really matters for them: by uttering these words of promise. This is a kind of promise which is the Lord Jesus Christ gave to His disciples before going back to the Heavenly Father (before the Ascension). I don’t want to talk much on Biblical account, but I want to focus on the idea that to be real is not just to be tangible. On the other hand, virtual world is obviously not tangible, but it affects people’s lives: it brought great impact physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. How many people around the world whom found their hopes in virtual world? Many lives have change and thoughts have been widen upon adapting this virtual world. This effects of virtual reality to people could be a positive or negative sense but the choice is ours to decide. After all, we are human person, we have this freewill how to deal with this kind of world we want to lane on. It is in us on how we see things considering our innate morality is concern that this virtual world could offer. Thus, it’s up to us on how we conceive things around us, we can see things in the real world that could affect us and also we consider things in the virtual world that might give us more realistic impact in our own life. It is our own who can decide how real things are whether it comes from virtual world or the real one.