The eHuman!

I always wished that i woke up with the chirp of sparrows and sunlight almost visiting my innocent face from the open window, when i lie down flat on a white bedsheeted cot. The first ever thing that i wish to see from my window is what almost every 3rd standard kid draw, when asked to draw something.

Thats only a dream to be., where as, what do i see now ? Early in the morning, its not the sunlight that really awakens me, but the alaram clock. Sorry to say, Its not even the clock anymore, but the alarm feature on my cell phone..., Its difficult to wake up, and why wont it be? coz, you went to sleep last night switching your laptop off by 12.30 am. Hardly, 6 hours of sleep. Apart from the laziness to wake up, you also snooze your alarm on the cell every 5 minutes.

Off you go to freshen up, an Electric shaver in hand, Soap replaced with Shower gel. Most of us would be there, but soon those who aren't in this club would be here, using the same shower gel, hair gel and perfume and deo. Either sport a Levi's Jeans or get close with a Zodiac or Peter England, you are off to office on either one of the latest model of bikes or car or either more professionally stuck to the corporate bus crowd, which gives you a little more comfort to sleep.

All of us are virtual machines, either stuck to a cell phone or sleeping with our iPods on. I am probably jelous of the comfort that i get when comparing it to the generation before me. I hear the generation before us telling stories of the way they'd been to the mango and cashew nut field. The way they had to cross stream and river to reach school and how their windows opened to the paddy field.

I remember having had a good fall from the swing when playing in the park and how my legs used to be filled with mud on a rainy day, but these days, kids really do miss all this, my niece's playground is her bedroom, she even learned to ride the bicycle in her bedroom.

Where is this world going ? With the start of age of boosing & smoking coming down to the early teens to having white hairs at the age of 20 odd, the average life seems to be less, even less beyond the centuries scored by Sachin. Is there an end to this juggle of life ? Can we as human improve ?

I wonder how can we improve? Can this on going economy crisis get us back to living as human as we always were ? Would this be a blessing in disguise ? We would be finding an answer soon, as soon as in a year or two. This would decide, if we still got to remain a eHuman or probably change over into a LIVEFUL HUMAN. In the meanwhile, i would like to recommend what my daadi maa told me...

M E D I T A T E...

Not last the least, Wish you a happy and a prosperous holi. Go ahead and play holi, hopefully away from your computer screens.

Lots of Luv,
Dhinu!