This is the digital era with
apparent pros. But its downside can be far outreaching and dangerous than one
can imagine. Not very long ago, people alleged that disruption in internet
connection was depressing. If it went on for days, they went maniacal and
hissed at the service providers. Now, what depresses them is the speed of the
connection. It frustrates them and it agitates them. They want everything done
in a click of the mouse. That funny thing... that page loader which is that
circle that goes round and round as it says to wait while it’s loading a
webpage is an ugly sight that makes people want to puke. Everybody enjoys the idea of being waited
for, but not doing the waiting part.
Last minute struggle is a popular
trend among the Bhutanese but having a child around is quite often an added
woe. Few weeks ago, I was running late for a submission but my little one would
not understand. She would climb on my back and stretch my hair or squeeze onto
my lap and demand to watch cartoons on my computer or croon to her like she was
a baby. As a last minute attempt, I locked myself into the room and turned a deaf
ear to her whimsical calls. Suddenly she shrieked and said there was a
cockroach out there. Cockroaches are something I do not tolerate and I fast
forward their The End pleasurably. I quickly opened the door and asked her
where the damned thing was. She quickly wrapped her arms around my neck and
wouldn’t let go. The little smartass had
tricked me into opening my door.
Do you ever open a blank page
with a blank mind with the sole intention to type furiously about anything or
nothing, hoping to unleash through your fingers all the things contained
consciously or sub consciously through all the years you have lived so far; a feeling that is undefinable and lying
downtrodden along the path between hope, happiness, misery and everything else
there is to feel where each one stands on an end of a multidimensional axis and
that undefinable feeling lies right at the center of it all, feeling all the
eyes of those other feelings?
