We have given a beautiful term to ourselves, "Social being". But today when I look into my surroundings, I observed people find great pleasure and honour to call themselves a busy one. But at the same time, these very people also claim to be social as they spend time on mobile and social app platforms. So here we are with some fake people whose social life is on the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Very unfortunate is the fact that they are very much respected in their social environment for keeping a fake filtered facial smile and with a pinch of the attitude of being busy.
The question which has been lingering in my mind is how a physical touch, a face to face conversation can be overpowered with a virtual touchpad. Gadgets are good, they bring loved ones near when they are far, but never a gadget was made with an intention to teach someone to ignore their loved ones. Its just the barrier we human have created to thrust upon the society that we are busy, and consequently to accumulate acclamation of being a very busy person. Elucidating the social behavior, if we look at a family where a son is working hard to gain the attention of their parents. Why is it so? because the father is busy over a computer or an iPad and the mother is busy to prove her in keeping rapport with the ladies of te society on a mobile. But in this whole segment, the kid is left with the lesson of his life to not give attention to people around him, instead make them beg for it.
My childhood has been spent making and breaking friendships as I moved from one city to other, but I have cherished it till I was allowed to play outdoors and enjoy each season as it came running around the fields and playgrounds. The moment due to higher education I was asked to remain indoors and study throughout the day, I lost my childhood as it demanded me to be busy, "busy" so that people around me can say I am serious about my secondary exams. Thereafter a part of me started dying, the part which could run kilometers behind the ball, the part which could fight to get fair share of batting in cricket matches, the part which could play fast and furious with my bicycle rolling from the higher altitude road of a hill and could take a swift turn towards right at the end of the sloping road. I lost it as I had to show I was busy studying. Then came my college life which too pretty much went in the same way as I had already lost the ME. During college, my friends labeled me as busy.
When I joined a job, I realized being busy is great. People respect and appreciate those who can make the statement "I am busy" or "I will be busy". Later I learned the art of taking appointments, as apparently everyone is busy, not for spending quality time with friends or family instead of being on the Otherside of computer or conducting meetings. The valuation of a person started getting calculated with the amount of being busy. But now I defer from being a busy person, for me, face to face interaction is more important as it gives me the opportunity to look into the eye of the other person and helps me to analyze the worth of the communication, rather than clicking selfies and present it to someone with a filter.
But still, to be or not to be busy is the question.
