e h t e m i T a t a y Man
Mobile
The availability of too many options makes no reason to try! By Kalpna Gupta
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echnology is serving us with various connections these days. Gone are those days when the sky used to witness the impatient lover waiting for the pigeon to drop by! The trin-trin of the landline phone was another source of excitement when the particular person was called up and brought to the limelight saying- “your call!”Aren’t we missing that curiosity? We title ourselves to be technically advanced. The race is not just to possess a mobile phone but also to be flamboyant if it is expensive. While communicating, we are not just two but many. Today, we all have become multi-tasking and, thus, are in multiple relationships. Sitting together is seldom between the two people. The beep of our mobile phones keeps reminding us that there is a world outside waiting for us. Your lover can wait. Can’t she see you are occupied with some work? After all, it is the question to earn ‘Big’ (quotes intended). We have actually divided our affection. It is not just our darling beloved who deserves our time but ‘technical darlings’ (pun intended) are equally worthy. To express our love and affection, we all have to use our
fingers instead of our hand-in-hand gesture. The skin-to-skin affection has been transferred to the chat boxes. “Loving someone is not a mood. It is a commitment even after your mood changes”- says Jay Shetty, a motivational speaker. I wonder when it was when we ‘loved and ‘committed to someone our love is multi-rooted. We have distributed our limited emotions. It takes one’s time and effort to love someone. The gesture of meeting in person is at the top amongst all others. On contrary, we never meet as a couple anymore. We have multiplied without getting married. It is the right time, I believe, to update the word ‘couple’ in the oxford dictionary as we are not two who meet but four- ‘main, meri aur humare do phone’. It is difficult here for me to write whether the above mentioned selfcreated phrase is making me happy or worried. ‘What is it that makes our relationship strong?’ is an important question now. The answer is one’s efforts. It is important to meet and spend time together. Mind it, ‘to meet’ is more stressed here. We must have experienced individually that the little efforts make it big. The process, through which we surpass, from leaving our top priority work to making it happen to meet that special one wants counts in the efforts. While travelling, it is not just the
