The call

It was in my school days. Once we were all taken to a children movie.
In one scene, the child's dad will be at his desk with some 5 telephones on his desk, and a person comes to meet him.
Once that person starts talking, one of the phones start ringing. After that call, the person tries to speak again and another phone rings.
And this time, even before this call ends, another phone starts ringing. After waiting for some time, this person gets frustrated and says that he would go out and call in order to talk!!
To this scene, we laughed very much.
Ten years down the line, this actually started happening. Not with just tens or hundreds of people, but with lakhs of people.
Atleast half of the people we get to see at office, on road, on train or even at toilets for that instance, can be seen talking on mobile.
I tell you, this time, the situation is even worse.
You call up the deputy registrar of your college and you are always welcomed by the busy tone.
You go up to his office, knock on his door, get inside and sit infront of him.
Normally, thats the time for you to start the conversation. But the thing is you need to wait till he puts his call on hold and thats going to take hell lot of time.
You go to your uncles place. When he arrives home, he can be seen talking to someone on his mobile. After everyone jumps into the conversation, the mobile rings again and the virtual conversation starts again.
You go to meet the agent through whom you got the flat. And the deputy registrar scene repeats.
Well thats been too much of demonstration. My point is, these days, mobile has become a necessity from being just a communicating device.
Its purpose was to make long distance communication possible even if people are on move. But it turned out to give rather unexpected results.
People give more importance to calls than those directly speaking face to face.
This mobile addiction reduced the long distance communication problem, but raised the new problem of decreasing face to face interaction.
If we go to a friends place, the parents converse more on phone than directly interacting with us.
The worst ever thing is people fail to notice whats happening before them while on the phone.
When asked if the phone call is that important, people undoubtedly say yes.
But when asked if conversing with the person who comes directly to meet you isn't important, silence gives the answer.
Not just mobiles and landlines, internet too appears on the list.
I go home every three months to spend a week at home. That whole week when seen closely reveals that half of the time I was on net chatting or browsing.
No wonder a newspaper article read as -
"Person 1 and Person 2 meet after many years at the village.
Person 1 :Hey dude, its been long time....how've u been?
Person 2 :Hey...what a pleasant surprise man...nice to see you here. Hey take my mobile no. Call me sometime. ok...bye"

Hope people start putting their mobile devices and computers under control rather than being controlled by these devices.