hi,
i found this article some time ago in a newspaper, hope you all like it.
A bunch of beauties comes to an ice-cream parlour in the university, buys cones, goes down the corridor of the market, giggling. They think nothing of their action of licking cones in public.
They are unaware of the prying eyes of the public around them. They think, like the poor misguided ostrich, with its head in the sand, that they are invisible.
There is yet another class. To this belong verbal vandals who, from the safety and cosiness of their car, fling foul words on ladies and gentlemen of their parents age.
Cars are an extension of their homes, their personal refuges where they feel protected and invisible. Home provides liberty, public places restrain.
The mobile phone plays a similar role for these ostriches of modern society. They use it as their life-line linking them to their social and business support network.
It is emotional, too. The boy who whispers in cell phone is using it as his heart-link. So is the girl! Both think like the ostrich.
When boys and girls speak on mobile, they think they are talking only to the listener at the other end. They become so engrossed in their conversation that the presence of the person next to them matters not — even when he is sarcastically smiling!
Why do we show this indifference to people around us? Is it because we think that others are non-people?
The reason is related to the isolation and anonymity of the modern crowded urban life. The more the people, the less we know them!
We deal with this by pretending that the crowd is not there. We mentally shut it out. Thus, cocooned in our mental space, we hold hands, hug, kiss in parks, lick cones, eat hot-dogs, drown drinks, insult elders and whisper intimacies in mobile phones while in full public glare.
We are becoming a nation of headless ostriches!
i found this article some time ago in a newspaper, hope you all like it.
A bunch of beauties comes to an ice-cream parlour in the university, buys cones, goes down the corridor of the market, giggling. They think nothing of their action of licking cones in public.
They are unaware of the prying eyes of the public around them. They think, like the poor misguided ostrich, with its head in the sand, that they are invisible.
There is yet another class. To this belong verbal vandals who, from the safety and cosiness of their car, fling foul words on ladies and gentlemen of their parents age.
Cars are an extension of their homes, their personal refuges where they feel protected and invisible. Home provides liberty, public places restrain.
The mobile phone plays a similar role for these ostriches of modern society. They use it as their life-line linking them to their social and business support network.
It is emotional, too. The boy who whispers in cell phone is using it as his heart-link. So is the girl! Both think like the ostrich.
When boys and girls speak on mobile, they think they are talking only to the listener at the other end. They become so engrossed in their conversation that the presence of the person next to them matters not — even when he is sarcastically smiling!
Why do we show this indifference to people around us? Is it because we think that others are non-people?
The reason is related to the isolation and anonymity of the modern crowded urban life. The more the people, the less we know them!
We deal with this by pretending that the crowd is not there. We mentally shut it out. Thus, cocooned in our mental space, we hold hands, hug, kiss in parks, lick cones, eat hot-dogs, drown drinks, insult elders and whisper intimacies in mobile phones while in full public glare.
We are becoming a nation of headless ostriches!