Journey Called Life ….

The 2Qs …(Quantity & Quality)

13 Dec 2010 2 Comments

by Archita in independent category

With the growth of social networking, we have become more social nowadays; we try to avoid meeting people on a friend’s wedding day ; but on social networking site we send lots of sad smileys to express the sorrow. We don’t talk to our cubicle mate; but we have 500 people posting daily statuses on internet; We have divided the life into two parts: offline life & online life…

After 16 years of education & 6 years of work life , I am left with very few friends & a heavy memory book . On social networking I have fewer friends ( send/accept invitation to/from people who mean to me, or who really is/was a friend) . I tried to understand this social networking from a friend of mine who use the site for putting not-so-honest status messages ; his friend list has more number of people whom he hasn’t met only. Yeh kaisi dosti bhai?

Friendship to me is still a bond between two or three ; where one understands ( at least try to!) each other ;have many common good or bad memories , and share a good  bond of understanding ,trust, likes & dislikes . And at least for me it never started without meeting each other (!!). How can you call a person a “friend” when you don’t know the most prominent & easily discoverable thing- how he/she looks! ~

In friendship quantity hardly matters ; its so childish to see someone’s status everyday when you don’t know 90% of his qualities? Social bonding happens only after you login to your laptop ; that too most of your friends do it for “networking” ;” You really do not know when you will need him ; so Its better to keep him in the friendlist “– something really difficult-to-understand thing; you don’t go to meet your school friend in the same city anymore , but you click on the images of a colleague who is posting snaps from USA . You forget to wish your best friend on her wedding day though it is in the same city; but don’t forget to wish your friend on her birthday , thanks to the birthday reminder on the social site.

Should not we be more choosy to when we know which Q is precious in life…! If the quantity showing in the list has surely deserved the same quality then life becomes less mechanical!