There are things that have to be experienced in reality and there are things that can be “FELT” virtually. Even I did not know what the meaning of a virtual life was. People all around the world spoke to each other, as though the concept of distances never existed. Is this skype such a big invention after all? I was always wrong till I started doing life's silly things with my friend on skype.
Some people might not understand the amount technology has affected my life in particular. Seated in a place close to 10,000 miles away from my companion in stupidity, I spoke, I cried, I laughed, I joked and I fought. Falling in love might have been easy but nothing happened in reality.
We were not buddies who had never met in life but were one of those people whose "Absence made the heart grow more fond of each other". Life was different before we parted ways into different geological regions but was difficult once we realised that distance was not our only enemy. Time was too. I slept through his day and he slept through mine. It really meant when one said "You need to take that extra mile to make your friendship work". It was not a joke. Many many years of beautiful friendship. Nobody I knew would be happy if I threw it out.
We had a lot of factors to negate when we spoke to each other. Time lags. Phase lags. Context lags..and more! But we didn't care one bit. Valentines day came and we danced through the night. Not like other romantic couples who proposed love to the other person on that day and surely not in each others arms, but we did salsa to the music on youtube. What could be better. Flower on my ears and a skirt knee long was all that was required to make my day the best.
He was a student and I was an employee. Yes we were opposite sex but still nothing ever occurred. Life was an extended holiday with a happiness prescription to it. We spoke once in the morning and once at night. Never did we get tired or bored. Satiated...was a feeling so far fetched that nobody could see. Gtalk and skype were my saviours through this.
Everyday we didn't talk was a day that was wasted. Still nothing had changed and we were still single. We had our own fancies...of women and men. Of crushes and clouds that passed us nearby. I wish I could apologise for abusing technology, but why I didn't is a whole new different story.
Priorities changed and so did we. And mine was a new game with different new people with nothing to tame. I got away from my computer , I ran away from places, but what could anyone do, because everything was virtual. My world was a game and the elements were gone. Nothing to hold close and nothing to choose. I know that after a decade or two, be it in each others life or somewhere else, I would walk into a park and find him seated on the bench.
Nothing will be said. So we would have walked out of each others life thinking the other found us expendable. I know for a fact that he is so indispensable that nobody could replace him in my life and it would hurt me to see him so far away.
We might even walk away from each other as though we dont recognise. But the truth will be that we dont compromise. Compromise is a difficult word to explain...we just would not want the other person to compromise on commitments. Bye bye dear friend. You are worth more than just that. I love you forever and you know that pretty well.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Humanity Reaching Inhumane Levels:
Black Eyed Peas rightly came up with the song "Where Is The Love?". Sometimes it is so hard to believe that human beings are so caught up in their lives that considering another human being for what he is, has become a rarity on this so called brotherly love filled planet.
I have heard of my friends talk about Man-Elephant conflicts, ManVsWilderness conflicts, but Man turning enemy to man is something unbelievable! You might think that I am talking about Hindu-Muslim Riots or BJP-Congress Fights or The Female-Male Ego Clashes, but NO!!What we are dealing with here, are a bunch of cold-blooded, self involved species of homo sapiens! Or are these the homo homo sapiens that zoology books refer to as The New Beings??? Whichever it might be, I hate this evolution.
Case: Chennai is a bad place to be travelling in, during the hottest months of summer. Humidity and the piercing sun are the two things that can make anyone want to reach their destination ASAP( as the corporates call As Soon As Possible). I was in my cab, travelling to office on a bright Friday morning. Fridays are great days to go to work, since there is always a weekend to look forward to. I was in an animated conversation with my friend about the plans that we had made for the weekend, while suddenly at a distance at the signal I saw a small crowd on the side of the road, I knew that it could not be anything good.
Soon my cab crossed the crowd and I saw a man lying there on his face in a pool of blood, unconsciously fighting for life! I noticed that, all that the people around him had done is just make a phone call for an ambulance( this I realised later, because I saw the ambulance near my office after 15 minutes) and then carried on with their lives by walking here and there , while the partially deceased body(I assume the ambulance was mighty late) occupied the footpath built on the side of the road for people to walk on. My cab was at about 60 km/hr and the first thing that struck my mind was if I must jump off along with the first aid kit too, but I threw that idea off my mind because I did not want people in my office to call me an "Attention Seeker".
While I threw the idea off my mind, I also accompanied it with a silent prayer for his survival. What I could do as a helpless, newly employed 22 year old, I did. I called the hospital whose name I had read across the ambulance and asked them if the man had survived. They said that he lost 2 units of blood but he would survive. Google is god, because if not for google I would have not rested in peace, nor would I have enjoyed my girlie weekend that followed. Google is still god because , if god did exist , he would not allow such evil beings to evolve from such warm, loving humans. I am no atheist, but I am a nut. I sometimes get angry with the divine creature who terms himself GOD!!
How can mankind be man"KIND" if he feels no kindness to at the least to his fellow beings??? I would be willing to just about hear any justification where people say "Hurting trees, plants and animals is something we will never know about, since they have no means of expressing themselves to us", but what excuse can one give to ignore human beings? If today, one cannot be confident of help from fellow citizens during life or death situations, how can anyone expect to shower brotherly love on each other? I am no saint and I know that I might die on the road tomorrow while people go past my partially dead body ,happily chatting on their mobile phones and I will continue to fight for life till my body gives up.
Why not be selfish in THIS WAY(Considering the fact that the newly evolved homo homo sapiens have cold blood running through their circulatory system!) : CHANGE PERSPECTIVES. Continue to be selfish in a different way. This is my last resort to put some sense into the New Beings. Imagine you or the ones you love the most, lying on the road fighting "The Grim Reaper" , while having a dozen onlookers waiting for miracles to happen rather than them running to the nearest medical shop and grabbing first aid equipment and at least trying harder rather than just waiting and watching.
When one sees their loved ones in that place, miracles might happen. The person lying there helpless, is obviously somebodies son/daughter, husband/wife, brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend or surely somebodies best friend. Let us change a little! I could have done what my heart said the other day, worst case I might have got a lot of unnecessary attention and won a few hearts in the process but I surely would have been happier with myself! Next time grab your medi kits and make a change, life is too short. Remember that, you have that one chance to give someone some more life than they might have had without you! Make your short life well used and give their almost too short a life, a new beginning!!
I have heard of my friends talk about Man-Elephant conflicts, ManVsWilderness conflicts, but Man turning enemy to man is something unbelievable! You might think that I am talking about Hindu-Muslim Riots or BJP-Congress Fights or The Female-Male Ego Clashes, but NO!!What we are dealing with here, are a bunch of cold-blooded, self involved species of homo sapiens! Or are these the homo homo sapiens that zoology books refer to as The New Beings??? Whichever it might be, I hate this evolution.
Case: Chennai is a bad place to be travelling in, during the hottest months of summer. Humidity and the piercing sun are the two things that can make anyone want to reach their destination ASAP( as the corporates call As Soon As Possible). I was in my cab, travelling to office on a bright Friday morning. Fridays are great days to go to work, since there is always a weekend to look forward to. I was in an animated conversation with my friend about the plans that we had made for the weekend, while suddenly at a distance at the signal I saw a small crowd on the side of the road, I knew that it could not be anything good.
Soon my cab crossed the crowd and I saw a man lying there on his face in a pool of blood, unconsciously fighting for life! I noticed that, all that the people around him had done is just make a phone call for an ambulance( this I realised later, because I saw the ambulance near my office after 15 minutes) and then carried on with their lives by walking here and there , while the partially deceased body(I assume the ambulance was mighty late) occupied the footpath built on the side of the road for people to walk on. My cab was at about 60 km/hr and the first thing that struck my mind was if I must jump off along with the first aid kit too, but I threw that idea off my mind because I did not want people in my office to call me an "Attention Seeker".
While I threw the idea off my mind, I also accompanied it with a silent prayer for his survival. What I could do as a helpless, newly employed 22 year old, I did. I called the hospital whose name I had read across the ambulance and asked them if the man had survived. They said that he lost 2 units of blood but he would survive. Google is god, because if not for google I would have not rested in peace, nor would I have enjoyed my girlie weekend that followed. Google is still god because , if god did exist , he would not allow such evil beings to evolve from such warm, loving humans. I am no atheist, but I am a nut. I sometimes get angry with the divine creature who terms himself GOD!!
How can mankind be man"KIND" if he feels no kindness to at the least to his fellow beings??? I would be willing to just about hear any justification where people say "Hurting trees, plants and animals is something we will never know about, since they have no means of expressing themselves to us", but what excuse can one give to ignore human beings? If today, one cannot be confident of help from fellow citizens during life or death situations, how can anyone expect to shower brotherly love on each other? I am no saint and I know that I might die on the road tomorrow while people go past my partially dead body ,happily chatting on their mobile phones and I will continue to fight for life till my body gives up.
Why not be selfish in THIS WAY(Considering the fact that the newly evolved homo homo sapiens have cold blood running through their circulatory system!) : CHANGE PERSPECTIVES. Continue to be selfish in a different way. This is my last resort to put some sense into the New Beings. Imagine you or the ones you love the most, lying on the road fighting "The Grim Reaper" , while having a dozen onlookers waiting for miracles to happen rather than them running to the nearest medical shop and grabbing first aid equipment and at least trying harder rather than just waiting and watching.
When one sees their loved ones in that place, miracles might happen. The person lying there helpless, is obviously somebodies son/daughter, husband/wife, brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend or surely somebodies best friend. Let us change a little! I could have done what my heart said the other day, worst case I might have got a lot of unnecessary attention and won a few hearts in the process but I surely would have been happier with myself! Next time grab your medi kits and make a change, life is too short. Remember that, you have that one chance to give someone some more life than they might have had without you! Make your short life well used and give their almost too short a life, a new beginning!!
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