Hello, hello! Who do we have here? Am I here with another attempt to prove to myself that I fit in? Why do I need anybody's approval? Or am I, just like the ones that I accuse of, another narcissist with voyeuristic tendencies? Well, the fact that I am writing this proves it without a shadow of a doubt. But its okay. I don't think this will last too long.
So how did it start? In the beginning there was email. In my case, it was "want" creating necessity. I did not "need" an email address. There wasn't anybody that I "had" to send an email to, but everybody had an email and so I "wanted" one. Well that was the beginning. Now, after a decade and a half of decadence with everything from email profiles to Orkut / Facebook to desktops / laptops to Iphones / Android devices, the list is endless, and so is my want.
I could look back and maybe tell myself that I was never like this, and that this is a recent transformation that has been brought about by the society that I live in. While there is a bit of truth to it, it would be unfair to blame it all on the "society". After all, I want it as much as the next person. Be it the next holiday destination that someone went to or the latest movie somebody watched. This mad rush to be the "first" is rather exhausting.
Have I suddenly wizened to the materialistic nature of this world that we live in, or am I just too tired to continue this never ending ending race? I think the exhaustion has caught up and it is only a matter of time, before I buckle up and start off again. Not that it will make me happy, but at least I can tweet about my achievements, update my status and try and make sure that somebody is jealous of my last vacation!!
Smacks of narcissism ? That's not me!
So how did it start? In the beginning there was email. In my case, it was "want" creating necessity. I did not "need" an email address. There wasn't anybody that I "had" to send an email to, but everybody had an email and so I "wanted" one. Well that was the beginning. Now, after a decade and a half of decadence with everything from email profiles to Orkut / Facebook to desktops / laptops to Iphones / Android devices, the list is endless, and so is my want.
I could look back and maybe tell myself that I was never like this, and that this is a recent transformation that has been brought about by the society that I live in. While there is a bit of truth to it, it would be unfair to blame it all on the "society". After all, I want it as much as the next person. Be it the next holiday destination that someone went to or the latest movie somebody watched. This mad rush to be the "first" is rather exhausting.
Have I suddenly wizened to the materialistic nature of this world that we live in, or am I just too tired to continue this never ending ending race? I think the exhaustion has caught up and it is only a matter of time, before I buckle up and start off again. Not that it will make me happy, but at least I can tweet about my achievements, update my status and try and make sure that somebody is jealous of my last vacation!!
Smacks of narcissism ? That's not me!
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