Since the past decade the mobile phone has become a part of our lives by storm .Even the most non techno people are savvy with this small wonder. It has transformed the world into a global village (yes, internet comes second.) In this era the need of communication is such that if they were not invented the anachronistic pigeons would have been extinct species by now. For most of the people cell phone is their life line.
People hardly remember how life was without them. If they were not present we had to do all the calls through land lines which could not let us do crank or prank call (since land lines have no privacy). Moreover, there had been no possible way of killing boredom when the boring lecturer lulls us to semi hypnotic state (no! iPod can’t be used that easily under desk) But looking at it from the pessimist side, we didn’t have a brain tumour threatening device clinging on us all day long and I, in particular would have been healthier with no dark puffy eyes since I could eat and sleep well without it vibrating under my pillow all night long (no, I can’t keep it at any other place since its vibration boosts my vital signs). People would have been punctual because they couldn’t call you, after lingering needlessly somewhere else, to tell you that they are running late. Also, when people were together they did not have un divided attention and they did not keep on tapping their fingers under desk while maintaining eye contact with you (since they are so used to of it they can do it without watching)this loses the idea of togetherness. If these phones were not invented our politician’s sanctity was sealed and there could be no way of making a huge humour of them and flooding it across the nation with a single text messaging package (no matter how liberal is our media it can not aware us with the things that text messages do. Agree?) and there was no other way of cursing them out with friends on text messaging when city was in a black out of straight fourteen hours(no,it wasn’t earth day and land line was out of order due to heavy rain) But I also think that Since we couldn’t quite knew what we are missing so we might had been the same people happy with the simplicity of life, concentrating on studies (yes, it is a distraction since when I know I would flunk I don’t let others study by asking them irrelevant questions and keeping them engaged with me rather than studying so without cell phone I would have studied rather than thinking of ways to distract them for the company of my failure )or reading a book and listening to radio .so, life would have been “life” without it.
Huda Ahmad is a student BS 3rd year Botany at University of Karachi
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