DMC Issue 6

11 - 05 - 2011

Addiction or Vanity!

I am all glued to my new iPhone 4 since the time I bought it. Well why not; the makers of Apple products actually intensify their new product research programs to such levels that when the product actually hits the market, people camp outside Apple stores to buy them. And we all know this piece of info, but yet I thought it could be FYI to those who don’t.

Have got some awesome songs on the phone which keeps me melodiously occupied through my journey to work and back home. So much so that I forgot to disembark from my train at my station yesterday! Thankfully I realized it at the very next station and swiftly got out off the train.

Well, the world has so much to give us, materialistic and emotional. I wonder if there is an invisible ‘fevicol ka jod’ that keeps us so attached to few things and actually makes us forget the world. A mind blowing invention is the touch sensor to various appliances. Something so fascinating ought to capture one’s imagination and fascination into the wilderness of technology. But what is more attaching or detachable in life? And which of the later is easier? I for one think that attachment is even at time instinctive but detachment from something super techie and excitingly intriguing is tougher than finding a needle in a stack of hay.

Almost 6 out of every 10 people on the train are plugged with earphones attached to their phones for the obvious reason. But when you actually just look at them, it feels like you are seated in the compartment for people with hearing impairment. There is a strange silence in the train in the mornings. You will hardly find people talking to eachother. This is where, on the tracks, you learn that silence is Blackberry or iPhone or Nokia or choose your brand!

Have a good weekend readers!