Saturday, May 15, 2010

"Friends" (short story)

We grew up together and we together thought in this process of growing up it is that friends forever tag working behind. I paved into this city life otherwise things were always small for me. She was already into this place and came to meet me that too after lot of nagging. Unlike before... this time everything looked unusual, she even did not respond to my several of  questions and gasped, hummed or in some cases preferred silence instead.

Meanwhile she raised her brows and took her part, "Actually I came here because I need you for some work."  Need is the word...she could have said anyways, how does it matter in friendship and without even my realization she started, "Well! things are different in cities....you don't know this place, everything is like so different.....

And there is this message in my mobile which said, "Want to make friends call us at this number
"09X09Y34Z0"
A seconds away realized the - Need !   "Hey!! sorry now tell me what's that you come for ? "

Note : Well lot of readers thought that this story needs a little elaboration, a kind of furtherance to know the intention but am not adding anything to it instead linking it to one of @ideasmithy 's post so that people can relate but its surely not about blaming digital media but how people under this constant pressure of survival are taking convenient steps.
[May be in that case LSD (movie) also try to grip us with such a message (Three things worked in this movie 1) Peer pressure 2) Constant attention 3) that interconnectedness), nothing is bad in this convenient world....after all world is becoming small and flat , that interconnect between people only makes one wonder  "Are you on facebook or on twitter...so in that way I know you."  or may be am just convenient while working out connections through these sites, there is no actual digital menace but we are actually turning it out to be as that old human touch is lost somewhere with friendships available everywhere while within individual there is loneliness depressed through insecurities - "This is a story of survival in this fast paced world" ]

5 comments:

Giribala said...
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Giribala said...

This is such a coded story, Pragya. It has a scope for elaboration :-)

Pragya Modi said...

okay giri! but will definitely put an epilogue :D
And thanks for suggestion keep coming giri :)

Jyoti said...

Seriously there has to be some more explaination to this.

Pragya Modi said...

hey jyots!!

thanks for coming...think hv added the explanation....

On a personal note: bcoz of sum reasons cdn't come on chat...will so love to talk to you :D
Jyots just be here!