THE NEW SILENT KILLER. 

“Beta, Arts karoge? sharma ji ka beta toh engineering kar raha hain.”

“Yeh script writing mein kya hi milegaa? sharmaji k bete ko toh sarkaari naukri lagi hain.” 

Yes, We don’t expect our parents to compare us to just another “sharmaji ka beta”. But  deep down we compare and want  our parents to accept our early age dating life, late night outings, complete freedom at an early age... just like those hyped up so called “netflix families”

Why? 

Ever thought that how do we even consider this foreign culture? 

Why do we want something that isn’t originated innately from our so called “Indian culture”?

“The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our long livings”, states Harvard university research.

Amidst the era of where you just swipe right and left on people without actually meeting them. The era where you wait for text messages rather than letters. The era where you develop feelings virtually and get heartbroken virtually. 

Did we just got exposed to too much of it? 

Or are we just the mundane mortals doing same old hum drummed activities and still expecting an interesting thrilling life?

Or are we just looking for entertainment everywhere?

It says 90% of teens binge watch 5 episodes per day. Yesss, a lot of drama and entertainment surely. 

Ever thought why do we love netflix, amazon prime, hotstar etc so much? 

The manipulative design of these latest video streaming apps controls our naive brain.

All the episodes are queued up all you do is sit back, munch a snack and continue watching. 

No wonder isolation starts feeling good wherein in reality all we are doing is connecting ourselves to the fiction scenarios that your mind wishes to see, that lacks in your real life and the ones which are hyped up by netflix series. No wonder how we slowly fall into their trap and expect the people and things around us to be the hyped up way. 

Because binge watching occurs when we find our life emptier than we want them to be. So why not just find if this is what we actually want?

Binge watching is silently killing your productiveness and your insightful times in day.

With binge watching comes the frustration, loneliness, anxiety and of course insomnia. 

Well at the end all these illusions will shatter down and we will have to dig deep in debris to find what we truly want and what is worth for us. 

So why not just make more of the cafe meetings than zoom meetings. Lets write more letters than text messages. Lets go star gazing than binge watching. Lets hold more hands than holding phones. 

Because later when you are 95, and a hundred years when you look back over the course of your lifetime

you are not gonna think that i wished i owned a better phone , or i wish i spent more time on internet, or i wish i spent more time sleeping and working. No, this is not what you will look back at.

The life later is going to be all about you spending more time with the people you love and things you did for them and your happiness :)

Lets give a loads of memories to ourselves to reminisce whilst our old age:)

                                  -M.