You Freak!

You can't be quiet for so long... no no... there is some problem... may be the network is down... or may be something's wrong ... she picks it 5 times in 10 secs to check and re-check and then her face goes pale. Shuts it off and reboots... waits patiently... beats her fingers on the table in anticipation and the phone vibrates for an incoming message. I can see her glow with joy.

She quickly picks her fone up and leaves the meeting. In 10 mins she is back. Keeps the phone on her lap and keeps fiddling with it. Shes a freak!

But so are most of us. We may forget to carry our wallets but will never forget to carry the mobile phone. When we loose one, the whole house comes crashing down. Work stops and everything important ceases to exist. Where ever you go you'd only see people pressing buttons and necks bent. Such is the addiction.

The world is addicted to it. Everywhere, at the bus stop, in the train... in the auto... while driving the car at the signals... in a party... in the loo and in your bedroom while you are at it, absolutely anywhere! Cell phones have invaded our lives and how yet not to forgo the fact that it has invaded our privacy ...!!! At the cost of sounding cliched and preachy 'how can we be addicted to a piece of shit like that?'

I read that an estimated 40% adults the world over use their cell phones for more than 4 hours be it talking, msging or just playing with their phones. Some actually get deeply upset and offended if they do not get a msg or call for a long time. Its a psychological disorder dude! Its addiction of a dangerous kind. I hate talking on phone. I attribute this to the late arrival of any kind of phone in our house. I had my first telephone connection at home when i was in class 12th. I had to go to the PCO to make any kinda call before that. So i am happiest when the phone is not around. Actually life is so peaceful without the phone. Atleast i feel so.

I feel my privacy is invaded the moment my phone rings because the person calling doesnt even have the faintest idea what i may be doing... he would ring up because he felt so! I may be in a meeting.. driving... in the loo.. sleeping anything! What was life without mobile phones earlier? Was the care and concern towards near and dear ones any lesser? Was any work so unimportant then that the person neednt be contacted? I agree to all the shallow shit that its a gadget of convenience and all that crap... but no gadget is convenient if i cannot control the input and output of it. It will never be convenient to me. I am obligated to keep this gadget and now since i have it, i have to keep it switched ON all the time. Work demands fones to be on silent and that's the best time of my day when i cannot hear and fone ringing. In some time you get use to your fones not being around.

I am pissed with this freak invention of some buffoon whose miserable prank of ruining private lives turned into the biggest invention of the century. This invention meant for another sort of communication creeped into ou lives to worsen it only. I choose not to surrender to this device... i choose not to be a slave of this technology. I rather sleep in peace and not wake up in the middle of night with some arbitrary msg tone and stupid creep calling me in the middle of the night. I choose not to be a mobile freak!

I will soon shut my mobile off! Forever! Lemme see how it affects my life or may be not! I rest my case!