Does information bombardment make life more interesting? For example if we did not have the LTTE, the Oscars,Barack Obama, Indian Politics and Cricket would we still chit chat during our "team lunches"?. The 'daily news' equips us with 'conversation starters', but we never talk about 'life'. Do we ever discuss child labour, sense of humour, orphans and orphanages, music and philosophy.
Ah.............there I can almost hear you say "who wants to talk about them Phew!!!!".
Its because we don't do that kind of talking do we find ourselves shocked when 'The guy who shared your cabin at the office commits suicide' . And we find ourselves saying about a team mate "he looked normal till yesterday he has had a nervous break down today".
We fail to see the person behind the 'designation', the emotion behind the 'silence', the scar behind the 'shyness', the sadness behind the 'loudness', the hurt behind the 'snob' and the pathos behind the 'smile' .
Yes we are all individuals with our own 'personal space' and we hate it when another enters that personal space. But we are essentially social beings and the less we use 'the news' to talk the better it is.
We should learn from children to talk about the sky, the kite, the colours of a butterfly, the beauty of an airplane flying in the sky, the roar of the seas, the new born sister of a neighbour, the tricks possible with a top and the earthworm that wriggles.
May be then we could reach out to each other and enrich each others lives.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very true akka. I don remember having a discussion about sense of humour :-). I feel the reason for people being more inclined to 'news' is the drive to become 'well informed'. They don't want their peers to think that they do not know about the current affairs.
ReplyDeletehey u nevr told me abt this thing u wrote...well now tht i have read it ..is it an offshoot of ur conversation over lunch or is it Hanniel's influence on u:)
ReplyDeleteI feel ppl talk news because these days it so much like gossip..