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  Mobile technology Taking away the need for mobility Taking away the urge to be, the desire to do, the need to create, which was all part of living, Giving away our freedom, our privacy, our choices. Our freedom to be, that we fought for in the past. But, yes it didn't last! Remember Orwell's chilling 1984, citizens, dying for privacy, ouch! This is 2021, and the big brother is welcome in every home, as every heart beats with clicks, Pressure to put it all out there, just for a smilie or a like, each one is i n this race of giving in ourselves, f rom our couch!

  Hospitality and our craze to be seen eating at a place, with a Brand name!! What a juxtaposition! Rules of hospitality -  Guest is most welcome Customer is always right... and so on!  Reason for doing the best to satisfy the clients, guests and customers  they pay with money, to get paid in return for satisfying food, comfortable seats and timely drinks! Basically, they pay to be seated and served with dignity! But with the trendy brand name places, where customers crowd to have the 'experience of just being there', or mainly to be 'seen' to be there, to have eaten there for the experience or for the Instagram, or for a Facebook post or check in, what happens then? The standard of what is served, and where, and how it is served, slides! With the guest being a complicit in keeping the façade of a place, the service becomes complacent,  instead of complaisant, complimentary or courteous! But trends come and go, and these Grounds are the fields, where g...

T his new world, with the same old maladies, and the new ways of expressing them! In touch, always ready to chat 24/7! but has ‘lost’ the touch Speaking through  machines to machines Connected virtually,  disconnected from reality! What is in this conversation,  You are reading,  but are you listening?   I am Facebooking my friends  all over the world, c hatting and,  feeling connected through & through, But, do I have time to a ctually ‘chat’ with those around me? and even if I do,  aren’t they all chatting  to someone,  somewhere else too!   And what is in this conversation  we are having, our heads down, our fingers busy, in the Algorithms of what is expected, We don’t look up, and  keep producing standard answers Hiding behind these claps,  smilies, frowns, love hearts, likes and cheers,  as t hey say better what I can say or what you choose to share, even tears! So much so that  the medium has becom...

Finally justice has been delivered  Floyd's tormentor has been found guilty and sentenced.  Remember 'To kill a mocking bird'? To prove the innocence of a black person, to get a not-guilty verdict, how hard was it? It has taken all these years and thousands of black people to spend years in incarceration and so many to die,  before a non-black person is proven guilty of injustice towards a black person!!  Justice is supposed to be blind  can't see any racial, cultural differences, treating everyone equably, based on evidence, before this guilty verdict of a white man, it seems the goddess of justice had been actually blind to white!   It took a video to show the truth!! The courageous 17 year old Darnella Frazier  did it !!

    This new world, with old maladies, and the new ways of expressing them Connected virtually and disconnected  really Speaking through machines to machines! What is in this conversation we are having 24/7 Always ready, always connected With our heads down, our fingers busy, we don’t look up, and  in the Algorithms of what is expected,  we keep producing standard answers, 😊😑👏💓 claps, smilies, frowns, love hearts, cheers🥂 As they say better than what I can say or what you choose to say, even tears 😓  You are reading me, but are you listening? We are creating our own truths, analogous to each other, walking together but never the twain meet! I ‘breathe’ in my echo chamber, breathe in what chimes with me, breathe in what rhymes with me,    While you, in yours, thinking the same!    You don’t see, what I see,  a different script of the same story Written in our parallel worlds My heroes are not heroes in your story and vice versa...