So, it’s time for next post.
And yes, it’s
about the thing which fascinated me a lot. It just happened some time back, while
I was traveling in train. It’s just only 3hr time journey, which left me with a
big question. Still I am searching the answer.
Wanna join with me, in this expedition?? ;)
My only
concern, while traveling in train, is just to get a window seat. Fortunately
this time I succeeded. Opened my book and I was diving into that world. At that
very moment, a small family came to the same seat. Father, mother and a small
boy of around 8 to 10 years. I was bit ashamed, as I am holding the window seat
and not letting a small child to explore the world.
But to my
amazement, he sat quiet and took out a smart phone (oh, here comes the devil!!)
and started to play something (not sure about the game, I need an update!). I peeked
into the screen (Yes I know, it’s very bad to intrigue others privacy). He is
playing some games, where he is first attacking everyone around him, next game
he is running for a life (what a contradiction!). He then took out car, went to
the racing field and then some candy crush (Ah, I knew this one!!). So many
world he had traveled in that meager amount of time.
I started to
get bored, same with his mom I guess. She started to complain, that the phone
will be out of charge. He just looked up his father and said, “Papa, does mom doesn’t
know about power banks”. His mom was now shocked and gave me a smile, which
conveyed so many things. I turned to the other window side as I could no more
concentrate on my book.
As the train
was moving forward, my memories started to move backwards. And now I moved 10
to 12 years back. I guess I was traveling in a time machine. Our family used
to go to my grandparents’ house during weekends. It’s the time, where my
grandpa bought a new “land-line” phone. I have seen it at some places. But this
is the first time I am picking those receiver up, with my own hands and placing
it in my ears. WOW! That excitement how will I describe, surely I am out of
words. That TRING TRING sound was repeating in my mind for the next one week.
My sister and
I were so mush obsessed with that sound to the extent that we started to hear
those TRING TRING sounds, event though, there is no call(hallucination :P). After the land-line
phone came to my grandpa’s house, we were more excited to go there. And this particular
time, we all are having our lunch, and our dearest friend started to sound, “TRING….”. We don’t know what force that drove both of us, we both got up and at the
next moment we are in our heels. As I am poor runner, my sister succeeded, and took
the receiver. We could not even catch our breath, but somehow she managed to
say a broken ‘h-e-llll-ooo’.
And as usual,
the person at other end called up for my grandpa. (By the way who is going to
call us there :P). She handed over the receiver, and we both returned to the dining
area. And it took a long time for our breath to come to a normal state. Later,
we both got a nice series of scolding from my mother, for not behaving properly
at lunch time. But as usual we dint care much.
Disturbed by
some outer noise, I came to the present world. The train has reached the
destination, my time machine has landed me in the present. And that small boy, oh,
he is still running for a life.
Got down from
the train, with a big question on my mind, “Did my generation missed those
things or is this generation is missing something???” Yet searching an answer
for it.
PS: I’m not
that old :P :P
