Today has been inexpressible. A sudden realization that I have
been a victim of this virtual world kept haunting me throughout. NO, it’s not
my account that has been hacked but my real life that has been compromised. I
remembered once I attended a hacking seminar at my college; where the mentor
asked how many of you have been hacked in some way or the other and only few
people raised their hands. And then he said the rest of you don’t even know
that your accounts or systems have been affected at some point!
That was me, ignorant, unaware; yet a victim. Alas, but real
life doesn't comes with a format, scan or repair option.
You think I am joking? Then I shall tell you a few scenarios.
How many times we ask our friends to check our latest photos and
the ones, who don’t check out on them, are the ones declared as haters or
jealous. If you are a girl, you know that I am not lying. Our pictures
popularity makes us feel like a queen indeed. But think is that’s what beauty
is? I thought it was skin deep!!!
It was hard, very tough indeed to decide to quit all kinds of
social networking, I am not naming any, so don’t sue me for this one!!! I shall
now stop talking in general terms and tell you how my real life account has
been affected with digital virus.
I had been one of those girls who became happy enough to add all
the family members in their social networking circle. As a Result, relatives
stopped calling and started in-boxing. My welfare became my updates and
photographs. I was assumed to be fit and fine if I fake so in them. Reuniting
with old friends became forming groups or circles and chatting. Relationship
has become chatting, messaging or voice calling using some applications. Sometimes,
I and my friends would sit and just talk on the sites even though we could have
come out of our hostel rooms and talked in the fresh air. I don’t know how many
birthdays and anniversaries I will forget now when I have left these sites. I
don’t know how many wishes would I have got if I wouldn't have been
active earlier on them.
Any sadness, happiness or an event of life became worth updating
before worth remembering and preserving them in heart. I feel emotionally
blank, uncomfortably numb today. I assumed emotions to be updates. I updated
and forgot. Real tears were replaced by the digital ones, alas; I don’t
remember the last time I actually talked to a friend about a problem meeting
him personally instead of chatting. I didn't know when a dedicated
poetry became a photograph caption. General knowledge meant liking the pages,
and reading the updates instead of voracious reading in real life.
Oh, yes, I have been an addict. And you think, this is not the
case with you? Just leave the network few days before your birthday or on the
day when you are upset, and see yourself facing the turmoil I have been
mentioning throughout the post.
May be I would have lesser talks with my old friends now, but when
we will connect on telephone or meet in real that would be emotionally
satisfactory. I will feel the love in their voice and could see their
expressions rather than the smileys.I would actually get to know my real and
digital friends now.I would even get more time for some fruitful work. My back
and hand would stop paining, eyes hurting and I would be left with an ample
amount of time to relive the real old golden days rather than the text someone
typed and sent on the network. Photographs would again mean memories to be
preserved and not something to boast about.
The very reason of so much betrayal, in relationships today is
digitization. Artificial intelligence is yet not so intelligent to capture the
human emotions. They say eyes speak about your heart, I ask could you see them
over the internet?
Get back your life, buddy. I have already started singing,” Jeene lagi hun pehle se jyada(I feel livelier than before)”!!!!
this is so true...!!
ReplyDelete@shreya.. thank u so much :)
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