How It All Started With A Ping!

Ping! A smile appears on my lips with a feeling that someone does remember me. Constant messaging and replies assure of your existence in a world where people are lost in virtual reality. Whereas sharing ‘memes’ is a thread which holds up most relationships. On a rainy day with a cup of masala chai in my hand, I scrolled through my social media profile looking at pictures and quotes about love, success, friendships and even nature. No ping on that day made me check my phone a thousand times. I felt as if nobody remembers that I exist. Nobody shared a picture or a quote even a mocking meme. The essential question rose up in my mind of being undesirable, isolated and a loner. Contemplating more, I thought of myself as a snobbish or maybe an unattractive person with no friends who could hold me up. The day passed by with miserable recollections of me blaming myself for a dull life with no happy rendezvous or party pictures to be posted online. The void was growing deeper and darker when I came across a thought which took me back 10 years of my life. Life then was in reading books, painting, cycling, and collecting stamps or coins, doodling on the last page of a notebook. Long walks through small paths between trees in the morning with cheerful smiles to each passer-by were like a mandatory event each day. I wondered how likes on a picture could ever replace this. Small joys of life are now shrouded with small taps on screens glowing and engulfing the rainbows of our lives. I took a pledge then and there to not let the pings or likes make a shift in my mood or my view about myself. Life has more than red hearts or thumbs up on a flat screen. Let’s go back to the child we once were, explore the caves, valleys and lakes of the mind by rejuvenating ourselves in the breath of nature.