In conversation with...

Its 4 in the morning and I've not slept a wink.. some guys are crashing in at my place for the night... so I got ample practice of being lonely in a group... It is so difficult to have a conversation nowadays.. People crammed into a single room can't come up with a memorable conversation... Let alone warring nations or burning factions... It is as if we all live a private life in a public sphere.. A wi-fi hotspot where many people are starting their messengers to chat with people whom they wouldn't have even seen.... but they just cant talk to people around them...

Sometimes i feel that it is a misconception that advances in communications, has brought people together... It has just become more convenient for people to ignore others... you meet some long lost friend and if you are in no mood to socialize.... you just blurt out... "you are on Orkut, right?... I'll catch you there."..... A yahoo messenger comes with a convenient invisible mode.... some people carried two phones till now.... so that they may segregate.... now that process has been simplified by new range of phones which accept both GSM as well as CDMA sim cards..... there was a time when even a phone call was considered an impersonal form of communication.... nowadays, even that is a rarity.... people send their apologies, appreciations and brickbats through the SMS.... Rather, take me as an example, instead of asking the people around me to strike up a new conversation; I am lamenting about it in a blog..

Thus wrote T.S. Eliot in "choruses from the rock".....

Where is the life we have lost in living?

where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries

bring us farther from God and nearer to the dust.