Many people desire companionship... Many people crave for recognition... Many people think they are not complete without a partner... Almost all of them have the same perception of life..
What have we evolved into? We live in a global village connected by a supposedly-infallible thread of instant communication. The mere concept of distance is lost and rarely thought about. Do we realize that the ultimate aim of every individual is to know what the 'others' are doing? The 19Th century philosophers were afraid of the materialistic urges in the people. Who is afraid of 'virtuality' now?
Was it so important to invent the radio? If the much-disputed inventors Tesna and Macroni had resisted the impulse, then maybe we wouldn't have gotten this far on the path of destroying privacy, that which symbolizes the loincloth which even the stone-age man found necessary to possess.
Then is destruction of privacy is this all about? Rather, consider it a losing the focus of one's identity which he swaps for imaginative recognition and flattery.
We are the first generation going through this cycle. It must be commended we are doing very well to restricting ourselves only to chatrooms and communities. If the celebrities are doing it, why not we? We are in no way less then them! Of course not!
A million emoticons for a smile? A billion texted words to hardly say three words face to face? Countless nights spent for regretting a single sentence texted at the spur of the moment? Hurray! We are near to have the emotional breakdowns that everybody keeps talking about!
Weak, unfaithful and pervert. The virtues of virtuality. We try to make others see us the way we want them to see. For this purpose, the establishment of online communities couldn't have been more helpful! What more, it is completely free! That is the only aspect which makes any thing more attractive(apart from bluetooth).
Don't u just love scraping and commenting?
The 'I' and the 'i' have been made distinct. 'I' stands for the hyper persona everybody knows about. 'i' stands for the inner guy who pops out occasionally, *chuckles self-deprecatingly* "yea i am a bit that way :D" Sick!
The life unwittingly given to you isn't yours anymore. Your friends and family have stolen it away. But that's okay, its only them. They will give it back. Even if they don't, u can continue living without it. Screw them, they are all a bunch of buggers anyway. You still got your sweetheart who will die for you if u but say so.
We are not living anymore. Its a eternal drama of irony and pomp. We exist only for the purpose others think we exist for. Compromise, bargain, chase after predetermined illusions become the paths of life of which if Robert Frost had known about, he would have never been a poet.
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