The title of the post is confusing, and may not make any sense to you right now. What I want to say here is that Social Networking websites have destroyed social networking completely... One more hypothesis I would like to club along with this is... what happens when we challenge the Supreme!?
A few months back, my dad was telling me that no one can challenge the natural creations of God. If we try to do so, we pave a path that leads to our own destruction. Well, I noticed, it is true.
Man cannot control time. It is a natural phenomena created by the Supreme himself. Whenever people have tried visiting places that contain proof on the remains of Ramayan and Mahabharat, often, people have died during the journey. A Google search will tell you many such cases. There are more such cases... where in people who have tried to challenge the Supreme and find out his secrets have had a tragic end. A little known movie, Naksha (Vivek Oberoi, Sunny Deol), inspired from real life incidents and Mahabharat, has tackled the same issue.
Same is the case with Social networking. Man tried to challenge God by creating a parallel Life... a Virtual life where everything would exist just as it does in a real life. Initially, it was fine. But as it started getting more and more popular, people have now started spending their lives on Social Networking websites. People don't have time for their favourite hobbies since they are hooked to Facebook. They don't want to sleep just because they want to catch the latest Tweets. People don't want to go out and meet their friends because they want to increase their Scrap Count on Orkut! Slowly and steadily, God is now ensuring that people themselves destroy their own lives by the VERY use of the parallel world they created.
So when will we have time to actually socialize, when we're hooked on to these websites?
Friends have started complaining these days that you don't have time for them... even Parents say the same. The reason? Social Networking Sites!
A few days back, a Facebook application released a list of my Top 10 friends... None of the ones in the top 10 were actually my good friends! A few of my closest friends commented on that post... "Aajkal doosre dost aa gaye... humara naam nahi list mein!"
Was that my fault!? It was the crap application's pseudo-intellectually designed Algorithm that led to this!
Such instances hamper real social networking.
And why do we challenge God anyway!? We're mortals.. he's the one who is immortal!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
T20 World Cup 2010 - Afghanistan's debut...
T20 World Cup started again yesterday, and the surprising thing this time is... no no, SRK is not present again this time at the World Cup! It is that the last T20 World Cup happened just last year, and within a year, another T20 World Cup is taking place, as opposed to the regular system of having World Cup once in every 4 years.
The highlight of this World Cup, at least for me is Afghanistan. Today it played its first match, and that too, against India! What delighted me the most was the fact that the players had been picked up from the refugee camps in Afghanistan by Pakistan born coach Kabir Khan, who has groomed them into professional cricketers.
And it does not end here, Afghanistan deservedly qualified for the World Cup by beating teams such as Ireland and UAE. I know, if you consider it from an Indian perspective, beating Ireland and UAE is hardly an issue, but well, consider this scenario: A team which has never played a cricket match comes and beats 2 teams which have been playing since over almost 20 years now. [Ireland 17, and UAE 21!]
In its first match in the World Cup T20 2010 today, against India, Afghanistan put up a respectable 115 on the score board, and played for whole 20 overs. Even though they lost, they took 3 wickets. It boosted their morale I think, and that is what matters for them, who come from a country where a person is not even sure whether he will live for a day or more. They are the only hope for reforming a war torn country.
I hope they make something out of this.
God bless them.
The highlight of this World Cup, at least for me is Afghanistan. Today it played its first match, and that too, against India! What delighted me the most was the fact that the players had been picked up from the refugee camps in Afghanistan by Pakistan born coach Kabir Khan, who has groomed them into professional cricketers.
And it does not end here, Afghanistan deservedly qualified for the World Cup by beating teams such as Ireland and UAE. I know, if you consider it from an Indian perspective, beating Ireland and UAE is hardly an issue, but well, consider this scenario: A team which has never played a cricket match comes and beats 2 teams which have been playing since over almost 20 years now. [Ireland 17, and UAE 21!]
In its first match in the World Cup T20 2010 today, against India, Afghanistan put up a respectable 115 on the score board, and played for whole 20 overs. Even though they lost, they took 3 wickets. It boosted their morale I think, and that is what matters for them, who come from a country where a person is not even sure whether he will live for a day or more. They are the only hope for reforming a war torn country.
I hope they make something out of this.
God bless them.
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