This story is a response to the May Speculative Fiction Prompt by Diane Wallace Peach
It has been a long time since I started feeling this weird thing in me. I am becoming more ruthless. I started feeling less and less empathy for people. I am not sure where this is coming from, how it started, why it started. But it sure freaks me out. Not feeling sad for a kid who fell and hurt was not my thing. Now, this has become my usual reaction. Or rather, I have become reactionless. Heartless.
Sometimes, I still feel some pity for people and whenever I feel this, it makes me happy. But then, I remember the other times when I do not feel this and become unhappy again.
I think about this change in me all the time. Maybe I should not. Maybe I can sit down and just watch a movie and relax. Maybe I am overthinking this.
Hmm, what movie should I watch? This one about the robotic people seems interesting. Should I watch this one? Hmm, yeah. I normally don’t like these kinds of movies but this one seems attractive. So, let’s see.
The movie is about people slowly turning into robots. Slowly here means every month, a part of their body turns into a machine, gradually turning them into robots. As they become robots, they become less and less empathetic and lose emotions.
Could this be happening to me now? Am I really becoming a robot? What can I do to prevent it? Should I force a cry? Should I fall in love? I don’t know what I should do. Do you? Have you ever lost your feelings?
To Write or not to Write and What to Write 
We are all Robots in a way 😇
One : Don’t fall in love ; read my post Never Fall in Love ❤️
Two : Meditate : Meditation- Single cure for all human suffering 🧘♀️
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I do! Good luck in your blogging journey!
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Thank you😊
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Nice story and I didn’t know if I should answer your questions or this is a part of the fictional story 🤔🤔
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Those are open questions. I don’t have the answers, really. So you can answer them if you want to:)
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I don’t think I have the answers 🙂
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Me neither:(
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😕😕
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Thanks so much for playing with the prompt, Betul. What an interesting take and a mirror to what seems to be happening to some people in our world. I’ll line it up to share. And I hope your week is filled with non-robotic feelings and lots of joy. ❤
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Thank you! Same wishes for you!
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Our whole technocratic society is turning into society of mindless robots and slaves. I like the story, and the image is fantastic! 🙂
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Thank you! The image is from Diane herself and I love it too!
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So futuristic! Even do I think that the future has already arrived, but we are not ready for it yet…
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We are not ready yet, yes!
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No, we are not! Most of our population are bunch of slaves and robots, a flock of stupid sheep obeying the rules of the artificial human society, and at the same time disobeying the true laws of the wild nature, until the nature strike back at us…
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I agree but I would not state it as strongly. We are still trying to find the right way as a species. We will find it at the end, but right now, we are still on the path. We are still learning.
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I think our learning is over, now is all or nothing, to start living like real Homo sapiens or disappear from the Earth…
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Ok, I think we have a difference of opinion here. For me, learning is never over and an end is never reachable. We will never be perfect. But you think otherwise. I guess time will tell in this case!
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Reblogged this on Myths of the Mirror and commented:
A story from Betul that asks some timely questions. Enjoy!
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Oooh, this makes one wonder – do robots have souls? Is that part of what they’re losing?
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That is my thought. What do you tend to think?
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I think it’s such a maybe, but it’s a bigger moral risk to think no soul. If we assume no soul and treat them as base machines, then it turns out we’re wrong, that’s bad. So I think I’d assume yes, robots have souls, because the worst outcome would be treating a machine too nice. Dies that make any sense?
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Hmm that is a nice perspective.
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There are times when we have to deliberately alter our routines (not so easy in the workplace) or be prepared to do something different (not going to the same old places all the time). I am off next week to the muddy creeks and beaches of Norfolk for that reason, to go somewhere different. 🙂 🙂
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Nice! I am sure you are going to have the best of time there!
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Good piece of writing Ma’am, I think that a good movie director/producer could think of somewhere to go with these ideas.
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Could they? Great to know:)
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Sounds more like a sociopath than a robot
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Hmm, maybe he is. Maybe we all are a bit.
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nice story
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Thank you!
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Cool story.
Already feeling the mechanical part of me clinging…🤖.
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