Does that strike a chord?
If not try and remember how you paid your last mobile bill? Did you personally visit a Vodafone or Airtel shop? Or u made it online with a credit card or maybe through your mobile itself? Did they receive it. Yes? Well...that's gr8! And what if they didn't...now there you go....calling the customer care rep...spending 10-15 minutes explaining your problem and trying to convince them that u actually paid them and your service should no longer be barred!
So basically to make your life easy you spend lots of money on a smart phone and then to make it simpler and cheap you apply for best rate plan and end up in the whirlpool of complexities to make this simple thing work smoothly!
We never ponder on such small things....and I never bothered to think about it either, till today when I and a friend discussed how complex are simple lives are getting!
Sometime I feel life was better when we didn’t have mobiles and computer and credit cards. Live was simple and easy. I feel my parents had a better life without all theses complex technologies and so called devices and equipments and services which now claim to be our basic foundation for a smart survival! But we are now in 2008 and this is our new freedom, though I don’t remember being chained!
Do you recall the last time you wrote a letter to a relative/friend....by hand? The last time I did it was maybe 2005....phew!! writing a hand written letter is already becoming history. Maybe one day my kids would read their history chapters on their palm tops and curiously ask me what a paper letter really looked like and if I had any specimen for them to take to school and show off a historic item to their fellow hi tech friends!
I was proposed on a SMS 5 years from now. And OK I admit that I accepted the proposal with a SMS reply too. But now I can imagine love letters traveling on mails in gmail or a yahoo account ID. Sisters sending e-rakhis to their brothers on Raksha Bandhan and their sweet brothers sending an e-voucher as a token of love which could be redeemed on a popular gift site. Soon marriage invitations would be sent as a MMS with a small presentation of the bride and bridegroom, some traditional music and a map which could be downloaded on your GPRS activated mobile to help you reach the destination without much effort.
I don’t know if our lives are getting simpler with the progress made by the human race or not? But I surely miss the human touch or what we call a personal touch in our daily lives. With each year passing by I receive more and more SMS’s and e-mails on my Birthday than the usual call’s on my land line or mobile. And the day after my birthday I sit down with complete concentration to thank all those who mailed and smsed me!
But I get tired of my mobile and the number of calls I get from various banks for a personal or a home loan, and my ever overflowing mail boxes, the unlimited number of bills of various credit cards and home mobiles which I need to pay before due dates. And I’m tired of calling and speaking to various customer representatives who can’t help me more than forwarding my concern to a ‘concerned’ department! It’s tiring to click ‘NO’ for the daily dose of ‘phrendship’ requests on Orkut . I hate sitting in front of a PC for more than 8 hours a day at work. But the fact is I can’t do without any of these and lets admit it non of you can!
And who do we blame in the end….we have made our lives dependent on all the things our parents and grandparents have lived without happily.
That’s why I say, my simple complex life!
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Babes, I never knew that such a simple discussion amongst wud lead to such a thot-provoking write-up :) Gr8 job done. People realy need to read it n realize how true it is provided they get time out of that complex schedule ;)
Very True, and a nice read!
Great piece!!
Am.
Hi Karry,
Agreed that calls and texts from reps trying to sell something, repeated reminders asking us to part with our hard earned money, spams selling guns to viagras etall are irritating. But hasn't technology brought us lots of good things in life.. We can talk to our loved and dear ones at a touch of a button. We don't have to wait for days on end for a physical letter just to know that she is alright. Totally agreed that change has bought us lot of complications in life.. But the real complications are age old. I proposed to my ex in person. However, what kept us close for that long sweet period was our dutiful phones.. My heart sang with each sms I got and jumped for joy with every call. The end was brought not by technology and the unlimited communication possibilties it provides. But rather by lack of something inherent in every working relationship. i.e. communication gap. We drive technology and not engineers. They are there to satisfy our demands. Atleast we don't have to stand in lines to do simple bank trans. However, I still romanticise the idea of physical letters. They have deeper and lasting effect :)..
cheers
mundi
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