Short
message service has become one of the dominant factors of our life..... So much
happens on the sms’s.. Texting has
become the necessary evil for most of us. Most students, on an average send and
receive 200 messages every day. How much time and energy they spend on this?
And all the focus that they give on this determines what kind of life they
lead. People cannot imagine their life without sms’s. It is cost effective,
sans embarrassment and people can get away saying anything on the sms.
Everything happens on the sms for most people, love, hate, anger, happiness,
sacking, accepting, deals, etc etc..
I
remember my younger days, when telegram was of great importance. It indicated
emergency, mostly of the negative kinds. One would have had to go to the post
office, fill the complicated forms, and wait in the queue, bear all the pain of
the clerk who would behave as if he is doing us a great favour. Then the
arrival of the pager happened and this had the fastest death of all
technologies.
When
i started texting, way back in 2002, it was not common as sms receiving was
also charged and i was ridiculed for this habit. But now sms’s makes and breaks
relationships. Most often, people follow the conversations up with the sms’s, the
moment they are angry, unhappy or want to express the negative emotion. Earlier,
in life, people had the option of subsidised anger, subsidised intensity of any
feel as there was no alternative to physical presence and could only talk after
meeting them. Now we all pour out all emotions and do not hide. This is
building lot of impatience and emotions are expressed in hurry and often wasted
resulting in instant fights.. I have done it myself hundreds of times with
dozens of people, and complicated relationships also. I know several cases
where the easy way of sms makes them express many emotions without actually
being there in that intensity and measure. In that sense, sms has complicated
the relationships.
In
some cases people wait for the sms, as if it is life threatening or life making
expectation. It is true of cases also where people leave a message and expect
replies, as the persons they call do not take the call. This is both advantage
and a disadvantage as both the parties suffer and have equal justification.
Waiting for sms can be very nerve wrecking and can be the most essential part
of your life. People who undergo this experience will alone understand.
For
me waiting for the Praveen’s sms ( my senior colleague) on Wednesday is high
point of my life. I get into illusions and wake up in the middle of the night
and check for the sms from Praveen. I am brushing my teeth and keep looking at
the phone for his sms. Then i feel every second that my phone is sounding with
a message tone. I am scared to take long time in the wash room as i can’t delay
to see his sms. Then i am driving to my meditation class and i am constantly
looking for the sms. It’s like waiting for the result of the performance and
the hard work of the last week, that i am waiting for. Just want to be done
with on what the result is about the TAM high points. Before i switch off the
mobile to get inside the class, i do a countdown before switch off the mobile.
The first thing i am expecting after i switch on the mobile is again Praveen’s
message. Never ever imagined that one sms would be so important every week of
my life. Here attitude and life learning fail and not the forum to talk also
about it. Needless to say that, Programming team and creators of content in
television, live on tam results and entire life revolves around that. It makes
or breaks the day and succeeding week. Why sms? The highlights are sent by
Praveen after he extrapolates from the basic data. That moment is the most
crucial for me for the week and so for the entire year. Like these, there could
be several situations for people who wait desperately and endlessly for the sms
and that moment of waiting seems so long and never ending.
I
want to call sms as kambaqt. I hate sms’s as much as i love. I don’t want them
as life gets complicated and i want them as life becomes easy...
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