Was listening to songs in the "sleep" playlist on my phone when the melodious voice of Mahendra Kapoor started teasing me with "Chalo ek baar Phir se ajnabee ban jaaye hum dono"
How true were the lines written by Sahir Ludhianvi!! The line means something like..
"Let's become strangers and stay that way"
It is sung by a heart-broken singer to his ex-girlfriend wishing they had never fallen in love, wishing they had remained strangers. I know a lot of people who would want to say that to their wives now.
But on a more serious note, I 've had some terrific relationships in life that suddenly seemed to vanish into thin air (If your narrow mind read that as terrific affairs, I don't blame you... you would qualify as an asshole at heart though). Am too inattentive to realise why that happened.
Why did people I could swear my life on, suddenly cease to be friends?
Why, despite my best efforts to get back in touch (after a small gap of few years), they refused to be friends again?
It pains me that I am not part of their lives anymore. I miss all the attention I used to get from them (Typical Libran you would say!). This doesn't happen with the hundreds of acquaintances we encounter in life.
And the closer you were to people, the more it pains.
The pain is so bad that you wish you had never been anything more than strangers.
Worse is advice from people who themselves are an epitome of emotional stress, who tell you that "At least, you've gained experience from all this!"
If given a chance, I'd like to wipe all that red from my memories and start afresh.
I'd like to "Unfriend" them all!
Yes!!! That's the word!
That's the best part of FaceBook.
Remember, a few centuries ago, when we all were part of a 'happening' site called Orkut and shifted to facebook?
We were in awe of the hugely involving game called 'Mafia Wars' and to progress in the game, you needed to have more facebook friends who played the same game!
Soon, I started to accept just anyone's friend requests. So much so that at a point of time I was friends with 3000 people of whom I knew only a 100 or so.
Slowly, as I grew (both in maturity as well as rotundness), I found out that 'Mafia wars', 'Farmville' etc were called MMOGs or Massively Multiplayer Online Games. That No matter how many hundreds of levels I crossed, the complexity of the game would just keep increasing and that I'd Never win!
Then a lot of my real friends started increasing on facebook and I was, for the first time in years, irritated by the 'game posts' which I had stopped playing.
Like Gautam Budhdha, who suddenly gained enlightenment under the bodhi tree, I found this awesome option called "Unfriend"
Just as the first Sunday of August is celebrated as 'Freindship day', let's start observing the third Sunday of September as 'Unfriendship Day"
On this day, I will unfriend all the people who are a pile of unnecessary emotional baggage in my life.
And also, on this day, We could unfriend all people who are in our friends' list and whom we do not know in real life. You never know how many of them are creeps who may stalk you or use your personal information from facebook for their own personal gains!
You could optionally unfriend those irritating folk that repeatedly send you "candy crush" requests.
You could Unfriend that Aunt, who starts gossiping as soon as you are tagged in a picture with people from the opposite sex!
Whoah! This actually has infinite possibilities!!!
In life too, the dictum "less luggage-more comfort" is true. The lesser your emotional baggage is, the happier you will be!
Happy Unfriendship Day!
How true were the lines written by Sahir Ludhianvi!! The line means something like..
"Let's become strangers and stay that way"
It is sung by a heart-broken singer to his ex-girlfriend wishing they had never fallen in love, wishing they had remained strangers. I know a lot of people who would want to say that to their wives now.
But on a more serious note, I 've had some terrific relationships in life that suddenly seemed to vanish into thin air (If your narrow mind read that as terrific affairs, I don't blame you... you would qualify as an asshole at heart though). Am too inattentive to realise why that happened.
Why did people I could swear my life on, suddenly cease to be friends?
Why, despite my best efforts to get back in touch (after a small gap of few years), they refused to be friends again?
It pains me that I am not part of their lives anymore. I miss all the attention I used to get from them (Typical Libran you would say!). This doesn't happen with the hundreds of acquaintances we encounter in life.
And the closer you were to people, the more it pains.
The pain is so bad that you wish you had never been anything more than strangers.
Worse is advice from people who themselves are an epitome of emotional stress, who tell you that "At least, you've gained experience from all this!"
If given a chance, I'd like to wipe all that red from my memories and start afresh.
I'd like to "Unfriend" them all!
Yes!!! That's the word!
That's the best part of FaceBook.
Remember, a few centuries ago, when we all were part of a 'happening' site called Orkut and shifted to facebook?
We were in awe of the hugely involving game called 'Mafia Wars' and to progress in the game, you needed to have more facebook friends who played the same game!
Soon, I started to accept just anyone's friend requests. So much so that at a point of time I was friends with 3000 people of whom I knew only a 100 or so.
Slowly, as I grew (both in maturity as well as rotundness), I found out that 'Mafia wars', 'Farmville' etc were called MMOGs or Massively Multiplayer Online Games. That No matter how many hundreds of levels I crossed, the complexity of the game would just keep increasing and that I'd Never win!
Then a lot of my real friends started increasing on facebook and I was, for the first time in years, irritated by the 'game posts' which I had stopped playing.
Like Gautam Budhdha, who suddenly gained enlightenment under the bodhi tree, I found this awesome option called "Unfriend"
Just as the first Sunday of August is celebrated as 'Freindship day', let's start observing the third Sunday of September as 'Unfriendship Day"
On this day, I will unfriend all the people who are a pile of unnecessary emotional baggage in my life.
And also, on this day, We could unfriend all people who are in our friends' list and whom we do not know in real life. You never know how many of them are creeps who may stalk you or use your personal information from facebook for their own personal gains!
You could optionally unfriend those irritating folk that repeatedly send you "candy crush" requests.
You could Unfriend that Aunt, who starts gossiping as soon as you are tagged in a picture with people from the opposite sex!
Whoah! This actually has infinite possibilities!!!
In life too, the dictum "less luggage-more comfort" is true. The lesser your emotional baggage is, the happier you will be!
Happy Unfriendship Day!
