Interruption calls

Yesterday, I met my school buddies - Taniya and Ankur - after a long while. It was a regular union we look up to always; at least try to make it a quarterly habit of assessing what is happening in each others' lives. Time schedule, professional ventures, social obligations tend to obstruct our will to meet intermittently, and that's why this rule. What else can we do, after all? Yet, whenever we do so, at the level best, we try to catch up with all that have been gone through and wanted to share with someone. That "someone" has to be either of us. Touch wood…

But even when we unite, there are innumerable calls that keep on disturbing the essence of our getting together; it really does play a spoil sport. As we were chatting this time around about various facets of our lives, we meekly also discussed about mobile phones. "We are not at all gadget geeks!!" A call came in for Taniya that very moment. She paused, changed her expression a bit, thinking for a second and then, finally answered it. After she was done with the conversation, I queried: "Why that disgusting reaction to that call before answering?" In reply, she just smiled.

The heart of the matter is old phones (conventional landlines) versus new phones (cell phones). Earlier, we wouldn't know who is calling and would answer it with a sense of excitement. Now, we know who is? Admittedly, we would first think what to answer and then react accordingly. We are loosing on to the feeling of awaiting unknown. Further, having cell phone means there is no reason we can offer for not answering. Rarely, there is any problem of out of coverage with breakdown and low battery happens in rarest of cases. If that happens, there is always another person next to you having, if not same, the similar gadget to access to.

We have lost our hope to have long hours of unperturbed fruitful discussion sharing our joy, fears, excitement and sorrows. Life has really changed the way we share our emotions where interruption calls has been the latest addition in our discussions. We never thought it earlier… very strange.