In the very near recent past I found out something quite surprising about myself and also of the world that I am in. Are you addicted to so called reality T.V., yes I know its not such a recent phenomenon, lots of people have commented on the same.
The surprising part was that while watching one of these shows, (it involved some dance, I prefer dance to other stuff) I found my eyes were moist and soon enough tears rolled down; now I am not one of those cry babies, more like a coconut. So yes it did sort of make me sit up and say, hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What happened, I also saw that people participating there, the judges, the participants weepy and emotional like me. I almost told myself guess what the world is changing, on second thoughts I second that motion, yes the world indeed is changing, we don’t really cry in public, and somehow I feel that the whole privately crying thing is also outdated, now we cry with people we can see but are not really there with us. We are so disconnected from each other and would you believe it, we so would like to stay disconnected that we don’t want to share our grief, shed tears with our relatives, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues. The truth is most of the time we are not sure if they do share it with us or are they laughing at us when our backs are turned, may be they feel a little pity and that of course cannot be tolerated, could be they are indifferent and that if you consider the big picture is the worst case scenario. We don’t know if they know what empathy is, I am sure most of us don’t. So yes we cry with people who cannot see us, melodrama can easily move us than reality. But more importantly what is reality? Any one cares to answer that