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”.
you represent them into the green/amber/black light; but sooner or later the lights go down in the list; with new friends coming up and the cycle goes on...and some time later u realise there was a (good)bye without a goodbye
ReplyDeleteand yea...dana scully, man, those were the x-days :D
ReplyDeleteGreen light and Add me makes perfect sense for good bye in this world :)
ReplyDeleteAlways, some lost, some gained. Atleast U will be in touch - even by chat. Those blinkers stay on as friends, and an assurance that we are not alone...
ReplyDeleteSo truly said...
ReplyDeleteadd me..
:)
Nothing beats the actual sitting down in a coffee shop or restaurant and chatting with one another.
ReplyDeleteWe have definitely advanced in terms of technology of blinking lights and scraps, but the good old meet and greet takes the cake anyday.
Consider this- when me, Yash and others are sitting down chatting about tvt, not a conversation passes without ur mention. and at such a time, neither the chat nor the scrap actually helps.
It certainly is more difficult to say 'Goodbye' than to say 'add me'.
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