I suddenly realised the value of my new smartphone when i was added to a chatting group 'Friends Forever' by an old schoolmate, taking my world fifteen years back with her 'time-machine'!
'The world once lost and totally forgotten was just an app away...how foolish of me for haven't installed it before!', i thought!
Their re-appearance made me feel mesmerised...enchanted...excited...nostalgic...and what not!!
Here was a totally new but the same old world in front of me.
My classmates were having fun time chatting,with some 'serious' thoughts abt planning a re-union party!!! They were actually arguing about the time and venue.
'Wow! Re-union party!!
Even after so many years, how close and cool there are!'
And look at me! I was even unable to recall their faces. I felt a bit ashamed of myself.
Gathering some courage, i posted a 'hello' in the group and to my utmost surprise, it was accepted with the same fondness as they were showing for each other.....that was a big boost up to jump into their world and be a part of it again,proudly!!
'This online world is such a beautiful and happy place!'
Here the journey begins....chatting, recalling, remembering, rejoicing, re-living....and even making some new friends out of this old world!
'This virtual world is so very real, secure,true and honest.
I actually got 'friends' which i could never ever find in this real,practical and materialistic world.i accept and i am grateful to this 'smart' world!
Elated and rejuvenated!
Engrossed,the virtual world so easily manipulated the real world....be it a tea-break in office, lunchtime,reading time or an evening nap.....all were taken over by 'chatting'...happily, for being 'online' and being with them seemed to be utmost importance.
Life appeared to be so refreshing!
Mind looked so happily occupied!
Relations seemed to reflect such an unconditional positivity!
What a bond! Beautiful!
Days passed....all the time being active and chatting!
Some more days passed....we were still active and chatting, still beginning and ending our days together, still planning a reunion party!!
Days turned into weeks...some people started missing the chats, others apologising for they couldn't participate,another too busy to even wish others once in a day.....but the group was still active and everything looked so genuine! And hopeful..
Still delving on the idea of a reunion party!!
Some more weeks passed....no new notifications...no new messages....everything fading...even personal messages started getting ignored!
Re-union party??
'Don't worry! We have a very strong bond... Everyone will be soon back from their busy worlds!',the few left behind thought hopefully!
But the hopes were only in thoughts, we soon realised.
Mind began to sink. Mornings turned sad and depressed. Lunch and tea-breaks totally silent and left alone.Gloomy evenings and thoughtful nights!
Every little effort to
wake up the 'unconscious' group was in vain, because it was actually not unconscious but 'dead'!!
People came, people met, people enjoyed and now, they were back to their real lives!
Real lives!
Quite normal and practical,as we say!
Really!
Weren't we real 'online'?
Weren't we a part of each other's real life?
Wasn't the virtual world affecting us 'really'?
Back in the real world,nothing actually changed.Everything still have to be so normal, fine and practically same.
Then what's the difference?
Nothing.
But for some 'over-thinkers'...their is...!!!
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