The Thing is 'Mobile'

When Graham Bell invented mobile phones, little he must have thought that it is going to impact the society in such a big way. It’s become another part of our body. Just like our hands, ear, nose, etc; but this has the flexibility to be present anywhere be it in our hands, in pockets of trousers, in purses, etc.

We use them so much in our daily life. Now days, when you feel like contacting any person. All we need to do is press few buttons and we are connected. We use it to stay connected with our family, our friends, and our colleagues. Distance has no longer remained a barrier. With this we can get to know what is happening in anyone’s life. We get juicy gossips of who has found a new girlfriend or who has broken up.

The mobile also help us during emergency. Like during an accident you can immediately contact any injured person’s relatives. It also helps us while attending some boring trainings/sessions. During which you can play games on your phone. If at all you are bugged with instructor then you can just walk away from the session pretending that you attending a call. But make sure your phone doesn’t ring at that time otherwise your whole secret will be out.

But have we realized that this is taking us away from the physical world and we are living more in the virtual world. Like if someone get’s a call, it a normal tendency to attend the call without giving any thought to the current face-to-face conversation. The ring of a mobile creates a sense of feeling that something urgent is waiting for us, even when majority of times it is not. Hence, we tend to divert our attention from the face-to-face communication to the insensitive instrument.

There are some people for whom mobile is the most important thing. Where ever they go whatever they do they need to talk to someone or the other on the mobile phone. Like some of my colleagues continuously talk on the phone while trying to work. They try to do multitasking between work and maintaining relationships as if to defy the logic “Do one thing at a time, do it perfectly with full concentration”. There are some who while eating too feel the need to talk on the phone. That is the height of necessity! One caution: never to go with such people alone for lunch or dinner. Because they are sure going to talk on the phone saying “Just for 2 min” and they’ll go on till you finish your meal. Thus, leaving you with no other option but to watch the birds or the bees around if you are lucky to find one.

Also, have you observed one thing that when we are walking in a group; if suddenly your mobile rings then while talking your pace slowly starts to decrease. You tend to walk behind the whole group just to state “Hey idiots I don’t require your company any more, I have hooked an intelligent fellow”. This is the same case if you are typing a SMS. You are furiously thinking to come up with a humorous and a funny reply without bothering much about people around you.

You people are in the same predicament as I am. Whenever I go to my room all my room mates are busy talking to their girlfriends, with each one enjoying in a separate balcony. With me the unlucky fellow who doesn’t have a girlfriend had to spent my time with the idiot box trying to find something good. This reminds me of one incident: I was with one of my room mate discussing about our dinner plans, just then one of his friends calls him up and asks him about dinner. Just observe at the way he replies “What man tell fast, Dinner? No I am busy now”. Wow I thought what a pleasure at least some one respects my feelings. Just then his girlfriend calls him up just observe the change uh. “Hey hi, I was just about to call you. What dinner yeah I am free. Fine it’s my treat today where you want to go Dominoes, Pizza hut…” I though what the hell.

At the dawn of 21st century if you see things have changed, relationships have changed, mode of communication have changed but do people have to change? Yes! They do to keep pace with fast moving world. At the same time we need to remember about ethics and values. We need to give importance to relationships to face-to-face communication. We are so much dependent on mobile but just imagine if given a chance to sacrifice your mobile for a scenic island just cut-off from this world. To live life your way without any accountability; I would love to, at least for a short duration.