Fatal Attractions or Necessities ?
I was attending some training recently and as is the normal decorum, we had to keep laptops and cellphones away (only urgent calls allowed ofcourse!)… have to be candid and admit here that it was pretty difficult to keep these lifelines away for two whole days… everytime a break was given, people went back to laptops/phones to attend to mails/calls/messages and all the networking tools that they could manage to check in 15 minutes… these breaks are actually meant to freshen up with say tea/coffee, a stroll to loosen up stiffened muscles, natures call etc but all of these had to wait till we didn’t ‘feel’ updated on the ‘missed’ events in last 3-4 hours… :-))
I still remember, couple of months back, I spent one whole week travelling to very many places… the whole purpose and focus of the travel was family [for a change!!] and family related matters… and hence I decided to keep my work and other interests behind… for the initial three days, I did feel major withdrawal symptoms of not being connected with the world in general (read: mails, chat, facebook, twitter)… received some calls related to work to whom I promptly replied that I am on "leave" and would attend to them once back… inspite of that, some pending items at work, some impending developments at friends kept my mind occupied throughout…
So while it is becoming increasingly difficult to disconnect oneself from the world, at the same time it is interesting to see how the same world is affected by one’s absence… and my personal realization here is that it doesn’t make an iota of a difference to the ‘world in general’ if I exist or don’t exist… I am not their only friend on chat, the mails will keep accumulating in my inbox tray and if not replied to, will promptly be forwarded-delegated-escalated…. the posts on blogs/networks will keep streaming with the same zeal (with or without me participating)… so why such an eerie ‘pull’ towards these fatal attractions called mails-chats-facebook-twitter-google+-whatsapp-facetimes and the likes… or are these necessities in todays world ?
I really want to attempt to keep away from all this work / networking paraphernalia (or fatal attractions should I say!!) for sometime… how and when, I am yet to figure out…
I still remember, couple of months back, I spent one whole week travelling to very many places… the whole purpose and focus of the travel was family [for a change!!] and family related matters… and hence I decided to keep my work and other interests behind… for the initial three days, I did feel major withdrawal symptoms of not being connected with the world in general (read: mails, chat, facebook, twitter)… received some calls related to work to whom I promptly replied that I am on "leave" and would attend to them once back… inspite of that, some pending items at work, some impending developments at friends kept my mind occupied throughout…
So while it is becoming increasingly difficult to disconnect oneself from the world, at the same time it is interesting to see how the same world is affected by one’s absence… and my personal realization here is that it doesn’t make an iota of a difference to the ‘world in general’ if I exist or don’t exist… I am not their only friend on chat, the mails will keep accumulating in my inbox tray and if not replied to, will promptly be forwarded-delegated-escalated…. the posts on blogs/networks will keep streaming with the same zeal (with or without me participating)… so why such an eerie ‘pull’ towards these fatal attractions called mails-chats-facebook-twitter-google+-whatsapp-facetimes and the likes… or are these necessities in todays world ?
I really want to attempt to keep away from all this work / networking paraphernalia (or fatal attractions should I say!!) for sometime… how and when, I am yet to figure out…
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Let me tell you, it is actually not very difficult to keep away from chats, FB, twitter and the rest...in fact, now there are days when I dont log on to the net at all...and believe me, I have much more time at hand now and end up doing many more useful things :)
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