GREEN SAYS I AM VISIBLE!!!

It’s been so long that I am trawling through this place... my own arena indeed .. It’s not that I have stopped writing just that I wasn’t taking out time not that I was busy but yes I was busy wasting time or perhaps at least pretending that I am busy…!! Too often time just flies… Squinting at the clock rushing to follow the jammed up days… starting the daily rut… unwilling and whining, reluctant though bound by the shackles just treading the carved path…!

Its in Vogue! And when more than anyone else my own kids said “Mumma c'mon all my friends have their moms accounts on facebook”. I decided to make one, Yes initially it used to regale, when you see your buddies after some 25 years, it reminisces the effusive charm of pensive childhood and the resilient phase … it just feels you have won over time u have it all again in your cupped hands initially …with everything just at the cursor of your hands, the memories that used to have a niche in our hearts not with enough of snaps, not with Androids to keep our diaries or reminders, not with being in touch daily via some emails, messages or incessant texts...

Life was never digital to the extent that a Green Button said I was Visible and Red that I am busy… And It’s not that Relationships didn’t exist… no matter the tech-savvy people today have not left any stone unturned to make communication as easy to access as fetching a daily soap … but we cannot deny the fact that Relationships earlier had their own trance, sedate and tranquil…

I guess there was more fun in flipping the pages of book rather than scrolling an e-book, it was more worthy waiting desperately for a letter from a distant friend than a banal chat of “hey wassup I am fine what about you?” and that’s it… remembering a birth date of a close friend for a year and going to STD booth specially to make a call to her to wish than just loath to write on somebody s wall even when facebook prompts its your friend’s Birthday , Waiting like anything to hear Love You from the lover after a month than just a cell beeping every time with gush of feelings initially which eventually fizzles out, everything was special just the way it was… Because we had to wait … And when you hold back for something the pleasure to have it is more gratifying!

Earlier there was a time kept for the society when ladies together used to talk the daily saga, an instant call to neighbors whenever something went wrong at home…they were the ones you could always bank upon the most… Today online appearance is imperative, Its just a green light which testimonies You are available and its too gauche not to have facebook account... You are well connected to the people on the other side of globe, whereas what happens next door is none of your concern. My neighbor visited me twice this week, sweet lady teaching me a sumptuous dish and my child says Mumma don’t u think she is intriguing!! Someday I’d like to ask my kid what about the 10 pokes you have daily on your account… the 100 pictures you upload weekly visible to even those whom u have never seen but are still your “friends”, what about the rubbish chats you have with friends just straining your eyes and hampering the very roots of English… what about with the status I am sleeping I am getting bored… My mom screwed up a dish… with 20 comments on me … will anyone of them will come to make dinner for you when I’ll be sick ???

I do not lament for not handling the touch screens the pretentious handsets the high speed duo processors to chat … And I realize its not that you have been winning over time… Its more like losing against the present..Life was simple with relationships smothered with patience, trust and serenity… Easy access to everything sometimes louses up the pride of possessing it !!!