I have noticed a funny trait in people…including yours truly…people sometimes prefer to remain in invisible mode for no particular reason…enjoying the comfort to remain in the background and still getting best seat for the show...and then they can watch people turning on-off as per their whims....and surprize a friend sometimes with a sudden message…I love this comfort of being on threshold of real and the virtual world...and the power to decide which side of the world i want to be...I guess one of the reasons people do this is ‘cos they miss those old days when the Net had not penentrated so much into their life…
Even accepting the fact that…'m a certified net addict…don’t you sometimes lament the loss of "offline" life we had back then - there was so much unknown, so much to be explored - like unseen/unheard places's pictures in Nat Geo or Discovery….. It was fun to ask questions…remember the countless hours spent in library…sleepless nights pondering over the problems....and then feeling euphoric once u get it…how things have changed…for the better?..well I can’t decide that…but even the word ‘Search’ is going extinct…now you just ‘Google’ it…its like passing the exam with flying colors…but not able to enjoy your success fully….knowing very well…you dont deserve that success….
These days everything around you seem to be virtual…virtual friends…relations…meeting….affairs…world….only excuse I seem to have these days for not being able to be in touch…is ‘my friends are not net savy..’…sure…the virtual world gives you feeling of world being at your ‘finger-tips’….but i guess it makes us less appreciative of the real one..
January 13, 2010
January 7, 2010
New year beckons...
So….the new year is here….2010…2010 does sound something special…I hv a fetish for full complete numbers….or else 2010 isnt going to be much different from 2009 (or will it?) but 2010 just sounds better and exciting....and this obsession doesnt stop with the new year only...whenever i want to start doing s'thing new ...like if I am playing FV on net…and really should be studying Japanese…one look at clock tells me its 9:37...i will say...'oh..well is it 9:37...gr8...i will play until 10...and then i will start studying...or if its wednesday or thursday..i will comfort myself saying...let me continue doing this fo r 2/3 days..and i will start studying from monday...'cos starting s'thing on friday just doesnt seem good... ….feels better mentally to start on a Monday…first day of the week….there’s always a new day, a Monday, 1st day of the month, new year….so you see that’s the sort of person I am…
Hmm…so a brand new year….as always I hv a list of resolutions I want to do….resolutions r funny things…aint they? You should avoid making them in the first place..and when you finally succumb to the temptation…all you do in the next year is to break them one by one…quite happily…w/o the slightest trace of guilt…but no…still I am a great fan of resolutions and I will continue making them…u know what i have made one of the toughest resolutions of my life this year....in a relationship...give 100% but expect less...i thought this is impossible just a few years ago....but in the last year i have improved myself...i certainly expect 10% less now...so this year i plan to expect even less....maybe upto 50%...
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