My best friend, John is on
a writing spree and I feel good to see him like that. He rightly pointed out to me that
I have not being writing for some time now. The last post was from 19.09 which
is almost a month ago. What has happened to me? Why am I so lethargic when it
comes to my favorite activity, writing?
I dread to sit with my laptop at home in front of my little one. He immediately comes running from any corner of the house that he is in and sits in my lap waiting to pounce on the keys and 'appear' as if working very seriously, just like his dad! My laptop has once crashed, thanks to his unceasing pounding of keys with his tiny hands. Had to get it repaired and then it has become dead slow. I do not want to work on it anymore and thought of having a Tab where I could easily work on it. Tab arrived with my mom as a gift from her and my little one had another toy to play. He just does not want to play with his toys and he does not even let the tab charge, when I put it for charging. He loves watching videos of his favorite Marathi songs on it all the time and knows how to switch the song off if he is bored with it. I wonder how fast this generation is!! What was in my hands when I was one and a half years old? I played with dolls and my grandparents. Here, there are none. Toys are plenty, but nothing as fascinating as a cell phone or a laptop or a tab, perhaps. Why are the little ones attracted to these electronic gadgets so much? What could be the reason? Is it only due to their tremendous curiosity that they want to handle these things and you all will agree that they do it aptly and smartly! I have seen school kids having mobile phones. I am not sure whether it is really helpful to give a mobile in their hands at such a tender age. It is debatable and when it comes to my son, I will be in a better position to write about this.
So, I was thinking, inspite of the fact that I have a Samsung S3, Micromax tab and a personal laptop, why is it that I am shying from penning my thoughts regularly on these gadgets? It is definitely simpler and suave than taking a pen and a paper and sitting in one corner where no one disturbs me and putting all in reality that is just a vague thought.. Is having a lot of techno gadgets at my disposal not a boon to boost my creativity with minimum of efforts? Or is the will lacking? I think it is the latter. I must gear myself and pull up my socks and get back to writing which gives me the most happiness. I know, I have strayed a bit here and there now and then, but I have always come back on track.
Let me encourage myself to see me writing more often and expressing more often.
Buck up, Mrunalini!!
John! I will be there soon!!
I dread to sit with my laptop at home in front of my little one. He immediately comes running from any corner of the house that he is in and sits in my lap waiting to pounce on the keys and 'appear' as if working very seriously, just like his dad! My laptop has once crashed, thanks to his unceasing pounding of keys with his tiny hands. Had to get it repaired and then it has become dead slow. I do not want to work on it anymore and thought of having a Tab where I could easily work on it. Tab arrived with my mom as a gift from her and my little one had another toy to play. He just does not want to play with his toys and he does not even let the tab charge, when I put it for charging. He loves watching videos of his favorite Marathi songs on it all the time and knows how to switch the song off if he is bored with it. I wonder how fast this generation is!! What was in my hands when I was one and a half years old? I played with dolls and my grandparents. Here, there are none. Toys are plenty, but nothing as fascinating as a cell phone or a laptop or a tab, perhaps. Why are the little ones attracted to these electronic gadgets so much? What could be the reason? Is it only due to their tremendous curiosity that they want to handle these things and you all will agree that they do it aptly and smartly! I have seen school kids having mobile phones. I am not sure whether it is really helpful to give a mobile in their hands at such a tender age. It is debatable and when it comes to my son, I will be in a better position to write about this.
So, I was thinking, inspite of the fact that I have a Samsung S3, Micromax tab and a personal laptop, why is it that I am shying from penning my thoughts regularly on these gadgets? It is definitely simpler and suave than taking a pen and a paper and sitting in one corner where no one disturbs me and putting all in reality that is just a vague thought.. Is having a lot of techno gadgets at my disposal not a boon to boost my creativity with minimum of efforts? Or is the will lacking? I think it is the latter. I must gear myself and pull up my socks and get back to writing which gives me the most happiness. I know, I have strayed a bit here and there now and then, but I have always come back on track.
Let me encourage myself to see me writing more often and expressing more often.
Buck up, Mrunalini!!
John! I will be there soon!!
So happy to see you back on your blog!
ReplyDeleteAlways appreciated your spirit and you so live up to it.
Must mention, what you wrote about Tanay getting excited about laptop and tab reminds me of my nephew who figures out how to play a new game before any of the adults in the family could! Kids are certainly smarter these days .