After mobile phones became common and we started living our life in the virtual world, called Social Media (SM), our lives started getting reshaped around the Likes or Optics(dikhava) kind of value system! On the occasion of Birth, Marriage, or even Death of a loved one, we are just sharing the updates in SM ONLY, as if the virtual people from SM would commemorate(पुण्यस्मरण) such important occasions right with us!

Even if someone has done nothing substantially loving, caring and moving, for us, we, like to care for such virtual People of Similar Land! We wait for their daily updates like a hyena looking for the daily catch!

On the contrary, if someone doesn’t belong to this People of Similar Land, we would rarely have time to socialize with these Real and Meaningful people! S/he was there when we needed help, support or affection; only thing they might not be doing is Optics(dikhava)!

Ok, but why am I making a fuzz out of this(Baat ka batangad banana)?

There is a serious problem with such relationship that is built around the weight of Likes or Optics! These are all virtual, mostly fake or meaningless! At the end of the day, such habits are making us shackled to the whims of other people’s Virtual Wishes! More Likes Happier, Sad otherwise!

And when we are in real need of someone to talk, console or need help to sort out something critical, we find these Virtually Awesome People, to be Uncaring, Cold-hearted and Extremely Busy for every damn thing!

So, from our Busy for Nothing Life, we should spare some time out to sit and introspect, who are those people really took care us when we were unwell in an unknown city(!), who were those people really helped us when we were stuck on a terrible phase, who were those people showered all they had, when we needed some emotional or monitory help!

Please note that, these Beautiful people are giving up hope to make this society a wonderful & caring place, as they find us so much occupied with our Cosmetic world of Optics! And do remember, with their giving up, they have nothing much to lose but in a longer time, it’s we who would be the loser!

So, it’s not that we don’t socialize in SM! We shouldn’t also waste our opportunity and start looking for all those lovely people, who were there for us at the time of Need and prayed for your Success! Thank you!

Context: This blog is written in the context of some real stories which touched me over last few years:

A person shared in SM that he wished one of his friend for his birthday in Facebook but ended up discovering that his friend was already dead!
One of our close friend got a baby boy and we got to know about that only after few weeks when we called them to check on the same. His wife proudly informed us that she has already informed everyone it seems. As we did not get any such message/call, we inquired further. Then she told that it was updated in WhatsApp status!
My close friend’s marriage was fixed after a lot of struggle, as happens in the case of love marriages. And the unfunny part was that every other day, he was getting confronted by close friends about why didn’t he share this beautiful news directly instead of they finding it in some random Facebook feeds!
Birthday of my close friend’s wife falls just one day before my wife’s birthday. We wish her every time. But surprisingly, they have never reciprocated the same!