Sunday, October 17, 2010

Paralysed

Oh no! this is not about what you all might be thinking. We aren't going to discuss here about the medical term nor give out the dos and donts' on the event of the occurrence of one. That is best left to medical experts and I better not meddle with it. This paralysis is very rare in its occurrence and has its origin within the human society very recently. When this occurs, your world turns upside down or downside up, whichever is worse.
When a person losses his/her mobile, all hell breaks loose. Things go awry, your mind doesn't stay under control, panic dwells in, nightmares pay visits, social life gets disrupted, etc. In extreme situations one losses sense of what's happening around him, fingers go numb without the SMS practice, ears don't pick up sounds easily without the presence of caller tunes; all these symptoms can be attributed to Social Paralysis. With the advent of mobile phones, life has become accustomed to staying connected, being updated, knowing whereabouts of someone, keeping in touch, sending smileys, and many other things which we never imagined we would be doing before. But was life really a drag before all this came along? Weren't we leading a joyous life? Weren't we in close relations with the ones we cared?
The answer to all this and many such type of questions is obvious but it is also obvious that we can't do without that handset. The only thing that isn't obvious is the future of our social life- we don't know whether smileys would take over our conversations; we don't know how we would exchange pleasantries; we don't know where technology will lead us; we don't know.
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