Selfie
I go to the garden opposite my house everyday in the evening, where I see many boys/girls taking a selfie – a craze which has been recognized now as a clinical dis-order called “screen obsession”, if it is your predominant passion. Personally, I don’t see anything abnormal in this, since most of us are heavily body-conscious. Paradoxically, the first lesson taught in nursery level of Vedanta is “I-am-not-this-body”, and perhaps it is also the last lesson we choose to imbibe or accept. Nevertheless, when I see the “Selfie-culture” prosper, I wonder if someday, they will come up with a camera which can capture our mind (feelings, emotions we entertain) and which will exhibit out thoughts, instincts, and beliefs. It sounds only so dangerous. Imagine that someone closest to us has an access to our inner personality or anybody can see our thoughts, feelings, and the inner murmur while we are acting so sanely or saintly outside. I wonder how many relationships will survive to see the sun-rise next day, especially the ‘made-for-each-other’ or is it ‘mad-for-each-other’. Recently, I saw a couple holding each other while taking a selfie, and the girl insisted that the sun behind them must beam through their heads or shine in-between. I wave to this couple every evening in the garden and my curiosity arose. I confessed that I overheard her and asked her, “Why the sun too in your selfie?” What she said was “We love each other so much today, but are aware that this passion may fade with time post-marriage as it happens so often. So I told him that whenever that happens we might as well look at this picture of sun setting us and remind ourselves that we need to re-ignite that feeling of love before the next sun-rise.” I cannot forget her smile as she looked at him. I could not hold my tears back as I walked back home. My their sweet love never fade…
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