Met a fellow geek on a work related visit recently. We struck off immediately, with such eclectic topics of conversation as our crush on Dana Scully, Orion, music, relationships, camera specifications, Dilbert, careers, curvature of light, rainfall on Neptune and hydrocarbons on Titan.
Friendship is easy to forge when you are bunked in with a guy in a 4m x 3m steel container for 4 days bang in the middle of nowhere.
When I was leaving the place yesterday, our cars crossed and we met up on the road, had a shake of hands, and as we got back into our cars we promised that we’ll find each other on orkut.
As my car drove on serpentine roads amongst rice fields, in a semi-somnolent state, I thought. I thought that, had this day been in the pre-internet era, we would have made a slightly grander ceremony of the farewell and surely the word ‘goodbye’ would have figured somewhere in our conversation.
In these times, where every person you ever met, can become a little green blinking light on your computer screen, what happens to goodbyes? As we go on life like this, are we turning worse at saying goodbyes simply because we don’t need to any more? Or maybe we are bringing Elton John’s words to life, friends no longer say goodbye, they just say “add me”.
Friendship is easy to forge when you are bunked in with a guy in a 4m x 3m steel container for 4 days bang in the middle of nowhere.
When I was leaving the place yesterday, our cars crossed and we met up on the road, had a shake of hands, and as we got back into our cars we promised that we’ll find each other on orkut.
As my car drove on serpentine roads amongst rice fields, in a semi-somnolent state, I thought. I thought that, had this day been in the pre-internet era, we would have made a slightly grander ceremony of the farewell and surely the word ‘goodbye’ would have figured somewhere in our conversation.
In these times, where every person you ever met, can become a little green blinking light on your computer screen, what happens to goodbyes? As we go on life like this, are we turning worse at saying goodbyes simply because we don’t need to any more? Or maybe we are bringing Elton John’s words to life, friends no longer say goodbye, they just say “add me”.
