Yes, I know It

During school days [fortunate that in my school days, there were no mobiles, internet and landline phones were like a luxury] the school authorities used to arrange the lectures of re-known personalities.

They used to be from various domains. We as kids loved to attend those sessions, mainly because of two reasons –

1. It was like a legal bunking of classes and post the session mostly we were told to go home
2. I like those sessions because, many of those speakers put the various examples, historical, mythological, few facts etc and I loved those anecdotes

No doubt, that’s the reason they got called for such sessions.

Then after college I started to read books apart from the syllabus. I remember the one “You Can Win” by Shiv Khera, which was very famous then within the students like us, because its English is pretty simple, for the folks from vernacular medium and one more reason – too many examples, stories, anecdotes etc.

I don’t know how many times I read that book, just for the sake of entertainment. I even bought a pirated copy of same from Pune roadside book sellers.

Even listening to the elders at home and at relatives was a fun. Because they used to tell something, which we never heard of. Some instances from the past, again the various way of looking the same situation from their angle.

Then came the internet and deadly mobiles laced with 3G, 4G & 5Gs.

You open any app – Twitter, FB, Insta and the in-famous Whatsapp. Almost every day our timelines are full with such stories in some or other form.

Mahabharat, Ramayan, History, Geography, Science – nothing left. Everything in the form of write-up, video or carousels.

Sometimes some influencer, motivational speaker and so many. Everything getting bombarded as soon as you get to open the screen lock and look at your mobiles.

Now why is it make us feel bore, which we used to love these earlier and now why such U-turn.

I think, its information clutter and overcrowding of it and its pushed to us. As a kid or before the internet, it used to be a part of the on-going discussion.

It used to have a reference to it and then with that reference someone used to remember something related to it and then it flows through the discussion.

Now if someone starts telling us something and try to give any example or anything like that, it feels like “dude, we knew that already”.

The face of the person telling us becomes like he is telling us the old joke and this is the 100^th time we are hearing it.

The novelty of everything seems gone.

You also think in similar lines…