Life beyond LIFE!

Social Networking site has made our life very comfortable. It has enabled communication and simplified revival of contacts facilitating us in “keeping in touch” with everyone – even with those whom we accidently met in that long queue in the bank – common friend of your company who happens to be a common friend of yours. We will not have to tell our kids about how “Once upon a time, I had a friend” or even “Once upon a time, I met this person”. Life in the future, as I see it, is much easier. But looking back at those days when social networking site was not existent, the days of our parent’s youth and our childhood, I sometimes have a feeling that these sites are nothing but parasites.

Long gone are the days when it was a pleasure to hear people call you on your birthdays and anniversaries. – “Oh my God! You remember my Birthday. Thank you so much!” and now all you have to do is just be online every day. A complete no brainer and no strings attached.

Long gone are the days when a couple staying far-far away from each other, would wait impatiently for that one hand-written monthly letter and read it a hundred times till the next one arrived – just to know what the beloved is upto – even when the letter was all about how painful the year ending balance of payment in the tax return was – they all sounded so romantic and wonderful.

Now all one needs to do is update their status message daily and he/she can tell the whole world what his/her problems are. The element of suspense in life is missing. We are all deprived of that element of Romance in our lives. Mechanical beings – we just put a “I LOVE YOU” and “I MISS YOU” in each other’s profile and eventually, it becomes just a habit.

That wait for that long distant call from near and dear ones to hear how much he/she misses you is much easier now. Facebook, twitter, Skype, GTalk – I love all of them. I can talk to my family nearly every day – watch them talk – but this easy accessibility of every person in our lives has resulted in us taking each other for granted. We know too much about everybody and therefore those precious few, you deserve that extra bit of attention from all of us – and even vice versa – i.e. we the precious person deserving that extra attention from someone – that Romance in life – that emotion of really missing someone - suddenly feels so archaic. Because the whole world now – Is Just a Click Away!