Do you know that an average human being be it from any village in India or somewhere extreme north or right in the middle of an island of solitude or some awing paradise somewhere in the pacific in an average state of mind does 80% of self talking. Whether be it the million pin-holes the Govt. responses, the evergreen energy issues, the even more happening green house issues, the domestic intra or inter family issues, issues concerning relations currently unacceptable to the society, issues related to an intelligent forecast about the year 2012 being the last of the earth`s history and its aftermath (very common among school children), overlapping waves between friends and other issues that I failed to specify, people need to talk about and they consciously or unconsciously find their ‘selves’ the most resonant to talk to.
Some of us might find it disturbing to realize this fact, as for most of the mortals this fact passes unnoticed throughout their lives and they never feel a block wind to think about. Some of us might also refer it as to any abnormality or a diseased condition that requires medical or psychiatric help. But what to do when the doctor and the psychiatrist are also suffering from the same ‘disorder’!
When related to a college student in India the scenario is worse than ‘just worse’. Almost 80% of students of a regular college with a decent internet facility are way away from the real world. Spending their days and nights in front of the TFT`s and LCD`s, watching millions of hours worth of a thousand T.V series, some less millions of hours worth of movies, living a monotonously progressing virtual life online and a couple of hours worth of reading before the exams (the story you used earlier to get your personal box), they`ve confined themselves to a mere7000 words a day against an average of 16000 words for those lacking the entertainment packed box. They`ve reduced their sleep, their appetite and crucially their social strings with family and friends.
Just think of those short telephonic conversations with your dad. Some answers regarding your studies going very well, your recent trip to Nainital or Amritsar or Shimla, your finances. And that`s all. You might remember his birthday every year but have you ever realized that he turned 52 this year. His shoulders have turned a little more loosely, his sight a little more weak, his hair a little greyer but have you ever talked about anything else but you. Your old man also needs a bit of humor, a bit more of care as you do. He`d never tell about the hardships he`s facing today, but are you blind! Can`t you sense what his wrinkled face is trying to say!
Indian fathers spend their time worth life upbringing their children, protecting them even from the slightest hardship taking away all the sorrows that nature set for you. They`d never discuss with you the severity of life they face every day trying to shine with your finest delightful future. They might not speak up their minds saying they ‘love you’, they don`t want emotions to be the boulders in your path to success. But this doesn`t mean that they lack or hate emotions. They express their love by executing parental duties but with such care that the geNext is blind to see. And what this geNext does in return is ‘teach them how to behave in front of their friends’. Their love still persists, I wonder how ‘the trainer becomes the trainee’ and doesn`t utter a single word.
No doubt there still happens a community that respects their precursors, but the question that candles up next is ‘do they love them’? If yes then ‘why can’t they express ’? There are no less than a million in this country who call themselves the most ferocious players in the battle for ‘love’ that they don`t shake even an inch turning their backs on ‘who’ loved them for years for ‘whom’ they loved (or may be attracted to) since the last few weeks. Attracted much to the culture of the west, they developed love for the pizzas, the electronic world, the latest fashion, but not a bit of it for their own blood. There are hunks in this country, call themselves educated, don`t understand a slice of the national language and feel pride not knowing it. A different issues though but still a matter of concern. They gained from the west the practices that maintain a reputed status but if they are that educated and that ‘not blind’ why can`t they see that people from the untwined west still love their old generation and never hesitate a wing ‘speaking up’.
There is never an end to the ‘enlightening defects’, so why not cut the crap and think the real. It`s never that late. Can virtual lives ever extend an arm at the time of your last breathe? Can ‘they’ wait that long to hear those few words that they`d wishes all their lives while you`ve already made a separate family for yourself? 'Words' are the only stars that shine when you are distantly away from ‘them’, that comes back every night when the darkness prevails, that assures ‘them’ that you are somewhere near their hearts when they need you the most, with an extended hand that keeps awake the ‘life in their lives’.
