Yes, life is becoming too mechanical, requiring it to adapt to today's "only fittest can survive" rule.
It needs some calmness, peacefulness to experience/feel what isn't easily possible between what that hustle and bustle brings.

 Yes that's true, our lives have become more of a machine life, where we go for our job and come back home, we don't have time to spend time with our loved ones

 I agree, Every thing in a perfect proportion is good

 Yes that's true, but we can't help sometimes, we have our own priorities to be completed. So life becomes mechanical

 Definitely, people these days are becoming like robots, it's all about possessions & material things we can gain, people just aren't as happy anymore with what they already have, they're forever wanting more & more, forever unsatisfied. Life is love, Love is family & friends, appreciate that first because they come first!!Money, plasmas, pools, houses they're all just objects that will never love us back...

 Yes I do agree with you, because we are in such a position that we are not even finding time to spend time with our families or friends

 Ya ..........ya very important debate..........i feel this thing everytime when i think of the ancient world and the freedom they used to have without this fast moving tough life.Many times when i m spending time with my family,,,,my brothers and sis are always taken away from me because of their phones,...i hate this when they don't consider me important in comparison with their mobiles.......but unfortunately we were helpless in this field

 There is this song by country musics Toby Keith, I am pretty sure it's called "My List" which pretty much answeres this question... It's ashame that in order to survive in this money hungry world, we have to sacrifice so much time and energy away both physically & mentally from the ones and things that WE love the most.

 Absolutely agree. When the going gets tough, who will be there for you? Your job, money, or your family and friends?
I'll take the family and friends, hands down.

 Absolutely! Life is all about those we love, and who love us. We shouldn't be so rigid.

 YES! I have a 64 yr young terrific dad that is fighting cancer and I'm afraid and always wonder do I spend enough time with him. It's so easy to email my family but I stopped because I want to hear their voice. I don't want to wake up one day and realize that I was too busy with the new iphone, blray, making sure I have the biggest and best widescreen plasma t.v., making sure my car has all the options besides being able to drive it on auto pilot, and realize where are my family and friends that I loved so much. I don't ever want to be so wrapped up in all of today's gadgets and myself that in the end, I'm alone. It's sad that today we depend on cell phones, the newest gaming system, the best material gadget out there. Whatever happened to opening your mailbox and receiving a letter or two from a family member or friend, it's just bills now because email is easier. Thanks for asking me to be part of this because it really got me to think about some things that I need to change.

 Yes i do agree with you, we need to spend time with our loved ones

 Yes i do agree with you. We are responsible for it. We have made our lives so miserable so that, we can't spend time with our loved ones

 I agree - It is just sad that we are taxed into a state of slavery. In families both spouses have to work which just takes away from quality family time.

 If you don't take the time to spend with loved ones you are hurting your relationship. Relationships need fellowship to stay strong. Technology gets us in a routine of spending to much time on other things. Peace

 A mechanical routine for me means two things. #1 we depend too much on technology. This is true and #2 We are set in our routines and move mechanically through the day! True as well! But we must think of the alternative. Without technology and machines we have no electricity, computers, cars, levers, pulleys etc. Life would be a zillion times harder! I feel humanity and humans themselves will evolve to master this issue! Now the second issue is how we are mechanical in our own lives. This is a much larger challenge. Having to earn a living and raise a family makes it hard not to be robotic much of the time. Going through the same motions at work everyday, getting the kids off to school at the same time daily, the commute etc. So to remedy that try to take some time for yourself after you get home and do something out of the our mechanical norm!

 We do not have time and have never learned to take the time for meaningful discourse with friends and family. Everyone is too tied up with TV, movies, Internet, hobbies, all the things which our tech society has given us. We are the poorer for it.

 It seems everyone is based on a routine, and we aren't comfortable without our routine, and we keep leaning on machines, and mechanics, until our routine won't include things we really care about. And we will never get to "do it the old fashion way". Sad but true.

 I agree totally with you. I am a over-the-road truck driver try so hard to make a buck and have missed out on so many family reunions, graduations, son and daughters athletics, and etc., until I have begun seriously pursuing a career change so that I can be more active in the life of my family. Time is moving so fast now days that if I don't do it now I'll one day look up and would've missed out on life completely.

 I agree. Because the end result would be your loved ones distancing themselves away from you, and you could end up alone in this world.

 This is for sure! Everything is based mechanically now a day, and people are depending on machines more and more. I don't think that people should put so much faith into them.

 Agree!! I sometimes used to wish i wasn't born in this century as how i feel no love. The worst thing i hate is that my dad keep talking about money all the time.. =(