A small thought flashed in me
when I was standing in a store to exchange my old phone (just a year old) for a
new one. That guy was checking if it was still working fine and me checking out
the new phone literally like a kid who got a new toy. Then the sales guy placed
a price for the oldie (which I agreed even before he told it) and happily left
the place after settling the balance amount. On the way back home I saw a small
kid playing with the outer case of a phone. That picture ignited my thought brighter.
We too had a time, when we used
to make use of something we own until it was completely DEAD. That was not too
long back. Everything we bought had a reciprocation of the value for money we
spent on it. This is where we can see how acutely we have been infected by the
brands and the ever-changing technologies. This have reached a chronic deep
stage where one can’t resist himself from buying a new phone that’s launched or
wait for it until the one he owns now is at least half utilized.
Homesickness is also en route to
its destiny to be something like an imaginary emotion. Today in this big world
nobody is too far from anyone. Internet is the home. Or in other words, first
home and now the world is being reduced to that 5 inch (Approx.) gadget. Of
course we do have benefits out of it. Nobody is alone in this world. Or on the
funny side, nobody in the world will enjoy the thrill of even getting lost. I used
to think, perhaps there wouldn’t be a continent in the name of America if Mr
Christopher Columbus was a youth of the 21st cent. Wow!! What a
world would that had been.
We have a world around. With colours
several times brighter than the 16M colours on the phone we can’t live without.
It has birds, trees and sky that canvas a painting several times each second
and much faster than Apple or Samsung can ever think about.
That’s the reason why we all feel
an extra-charged energy flowing in us from head to toe after staying a day or
two somewhere in the remote where technology is yet to reach. There we are
close to nature. There we express more. A small smile that’s drawn on your
cheek while chatting with an old friend is elaborated to a loud laughter when
you meet him/her in person.
Gadgets, technology and social
networks are having a good feast eating our sentiments, values and homesickness.
The word ‘Real’ is soon to find a new synonym. VIRTUAL..!!
Yes! At times we are all living a
virtual life. No values. No Homesickness.
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