Wednesday, July 8, 2015

"How am I?"

For years and centuries before humans were hit by the gadget which even one year old can understand, the most profound question for each thinker (even lesser mortals) was - "Who am I?". Haven't we all read various writer write about this most classical question? Someone even said that most of the work done in art, science and religion actually tried to just answer this 'just' question. Means may be different but the answer to this question is surely the key to self-realization and claiming that self-realization.

But, alas, the question has changed with the introduction of social media and all the image management around it. The question most of us seeking now is "How am I?". If someone just wants to have a look at this question, go on and pick up any social media imprint of a person and the question would right there. In the era where people do not have time to read through a full article (or sometimes a paragraph) - how can we expect someone to read you? And hence it is our 'socially' moral duty to push ourselves into their minds. Even though the image which we try to push is totally fake most of the times.

It was not that this question was not prevalent earlier. Yes, it was prevalent when we all were a kid. Don't you remember, you used to judge yourselves based on how other person feels about you? Like, how do I play a particular based on a friend's opinion, or how do I perform in studies based on a teacher's opinion, or how do I rate myself as a son/daughter based on parent's opinion. Weren't we judging ourselves based on some other person's opinion. And then we grew up with the same philosophic mind of judging ourselves based on what other people think about us. But the difference in those times was the comforting factor that we were fine to live in our cocoon thinking and pondering about one's self as soon as we were out of the world's eyes.

With the advent of social media, humans just took it to another level. Instead of just trying hard at times and getting our high based on how people judge us, we went a step further and introduced marketing to it. Well, isn't business all around you - so why not introduce it in your self as well. And let people judge you highly - yes, because that it what gives us a high. Now, we actually lead people to judge us in a particular way.

A way which is built by us - one status message, one photo, or one check-in at a time...

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Read the latest restuarant review on my food blog

Just wrote a new restaurant reviews on my food blog. Trying to get more regular on the blogs.

You can read the review at http://gluttonous-me.blogspot.in/2015/06/mumbai-matinee-bollywood-cafe-sector-18.html


Thursday, June 11, 2015

So, where are we?

It has been a very long time since I last wrote something here - nearly 2.5 years. A long time to be absent from writing. So, why am I back here?


The most common reason would be that I love to write. Yes, I do love to write but have forgotten the art of writing. So, just trying my hands back on writing to see where I can actually put something into words or not.


A lot has changed in these last 2.5 years. And I am feeling empty - no thoughts at all in my brain - as I sit here and think about writing them. This shows that they do not need writing down. They just happened and let them be.


Closing this post now with a hope that I start getting regular here. Amen...