Can You Be Like 'THE MATRIX'

Can You Be Like 'THE MATRIX'

This may be reflective of my age but that's fine if we still remember that 'THE MATRIX' science fiction action film a little more than twenty years ago?  Oh, that reminds us to ask Can You Be Like 'THE MATRIX'?  Wherein you can be in two or three places at the same time [in life]?  Yes sirrrrrs, we are NOT hallucinating here.  Instead, being in another location that there is nothing else you can do to compensate for your PHYSICAL absence by mitigating it with your VIRTUAL presence.  The harsh realities for that need to be present in a location gets magnified these past decades where there has been an unabated huge labor force diaspora from the Third World [that includes South Asian countries like India and Pakistan and Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia and the Philippines].

How do we solve the consequences of a huge problem like this labor force diaspora?  No quick fix but we can solve at least 50% of the problem.  How?  Oh well, let's ask ourselves, can we be like 'THE MATRIX'? That means, a working father can continue to be working over there in Dubai and yet his absence is not heavily felt by his family ten thousand miles away.

In fiction, the absence of the child's parents frees the child or young adult to follow their own dreams and adventures to become more independent.  In real life, though, children or even young adults usually suffer from emotional fallout due to the absence of parents in their childhood.  The absence of a parent becomes advantageous only if that parent has a toxic personality.  In most cases though, although the remaining parent may be loving and kind, the missing parent's absence will still affect not only the young ones but even an adult. 

Again, a parent may be absent for multifarious reasons.  In fact, NOT all absent parents are physically absence.  Some are physically right there but may be emotionally absence or they DON'T fulfill their parental roles.  And in some cases, it is the child who absences himself or herself because his/her parents are either emotionally, physically or even sexually abusive or harmed them in some way.  And even if a child decides to leave, they still experience the absence of the parent.

This could lead us all to a heavily opinionated debate that could reverberate for an extended period and lest I be mistaken, we are NOT against labor diaspora.  What we need though is to raise the awareness of parents ten thousand miles away from their family that You Can Be Like 'THE MATRIX' by virtually MONITORING, GUIDING and ADVISING children [even the adults] because that is the best way to compensate for your physical absence from your family ✅✅✅