I have spend (ohk wasted ) my countless hours on orkut , facebook (ya I have my a/c on both the sites)…chatting ,poking, uploading pics and videos , updating the profile every now and then…. taking silly quizzes and doing a lot of other silly things…U know what I mean….of course u do….. Every time I log off…there is a guilt …god I shouldn’t have wasted my time doing this and I decide not to log-in till tomorrow…(or maybe till evening…ohk…not till this afternoon...).. I wouldn’t say I am addicted to this “social networking sites”… but then you guys are smart enough to understand…. Cum’on I am not doing anything out of the box….you all do it…bt I am admitting it.. not that Star Plus is going to pay me for this….but who knows Rajeev khandwaal may call me one day… on his show “Sach ka Samna”…hehe….ohk…enough now
Yes it is true that spending countless hours in front of net has become the part of our lifestyle … and we guys have ready-made-excuses for that...in certain ways they are justifiable also…Com’on if you are telling me we can visit malls (coz u cant suggest Humayun Tomb in this scorching heat….) …then I am not interested in visiting the identical twin or triplet malls for just window shopping…so we always try to justify ourself with the fact that we are left with no options ….but the reality is we …here in metros ....like to live a life of anonymity…because we are scared of showing our real self to everyone....not that we have criminal records…but then we don’t want others to know that WE ARE NO SPECIAL…
No matter what ever we say about our graveyard shifts but this automatic century has left us with a lot of time to be own our own…and what we all do at that time…sitting in fron of PC and talking to any Tom-dick-Harry from neitherland…or whatsoever Land…but irony is at the same time we avoid eye contacts with our immediate neighbors just to skip a formal greeting…and while using the elevator we all look blankly at the closed doors like an idiot ….as if a friendly greeting with a stranger is a crime in Delhi…( not as the law stands at present..)…the reason behind this is that 21st century has made all of us (or may be we pretend )a lot private person…
You can listen in every heated conversation …either its with parents, siblings, frnds or spouse….that “YOU HAVE TO RESPECT MY PRIVECY” ….or “I NEED MY SPACE”…(well at that time they are surely not talking about any flat in Greater Noida or Dwarka)….
And then we write articles about the complexities of city life…Admit it…its not the city which is complex….it is we, who is complex…and to make the things a little sorted we don’t need to do something big but just simple things …..so next time when you cross the aunt living next door…do wave her ‘Hello’…she will appreciate it….
