Text R' Us

World evolves around text. Text are mainly alphabets and words, which are used get the message across and make us understand what we are dealing with. In order to clinch a business deal, we have to prepare proposals and contracts, black and white they call it. At work, we email our clients, some of which are pretty much invisible and all that you receive from them are words. Let's not stop there, we sometimes even email our colleagues who are seated just a few seats away from us to ask for confirmation on a certain issue.

Is it that hard to talk to someone face to face or just talk for that matter? In today's context, we text messages instead of just pushing one button on the handphone to call the other party. We talk about everything under the sun on MSN, making our fingers type away on the keyboard through the night but simply refuse to just call the other party and talk where it's less tiring. Is the world really all about text?

A quarter of the time spent in front of the computer is spent reading the words websites have to offer and another quarter reading about people's life in their blogs. Tagging on these blogs and the very next moment you go out of the house, you meet the owner of the blog for dinner and go "Hey I've tagged at your blog!" -- some things you just can't explain. What's the point really.

I've just contradicted myself by writing this post and you for reading it. Handphones and sms-es are evvvveeerrrrllll. Without them 12 years ago, we still manage to meet our friends at the location we agreed upon without any troubles. YET, I can't leave home without my handphone feeling ever so lost if I did. MSN is a disease!! Life still goes on without a PC at home 10 years back isn't it? YET, whenever I switch on my computer, MSN is the first thing I sign in to. Blogs are destroyers. Not reading any blog won't change your perception of the happenings in the world, doesnt it? YET, I've been keeping one for 5 years and after signing into MSN, the next thing I'd do is blog-hop. How like that?!?!

And after typing so much text, you'd realised I didn't even mutter a single word.


His expression is exactly what I had in mind writing this entry