Thursday, July 07, 2005

On chat

....with friends

After a hectic day of sleeping, waking, reading, eating, dancing, singing, scootering, working, talking, thinking, I just finish my day chatting with a friend I have not yet met or spoken in person. Wondering at the great blessing of internet technologies. Travelling places, just sitting in a cubicle. After passing through a miserably laborious phase of ASL Pleases in public chatrooms, it is heaven to chat with a few friends who think like you and feel the same way as you do! And when that happens, minutes become hours without much ado.
Chatting - what the mind feels, words silently falling on the computer screen, no sound made, not a word spoken. Except for the click-clacking of the computer keyboard. But so much happens, between the two at the end of the terminals. So much is conveyed. The silence of technology. The celebration of invention. The joy of living. The Ananda of Anubhavam - just experiencing!

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6 comments:

hari said...

Hi Swahilya,

Very true. Internet has opened a whole new and huge forum for communication and it has indeed made this world not only smaller but less diverse as we get to become more adaptable to our friends in say US or Europe after frequent interraction.

Swahilya Shambhavi said...

I was contemplating today on Nada Brahmam. Everything is Brahman. Nadam - Sound, Prithvi - Earth, Jalam - Water, Teja - Fire, Vayu - Air, Akasha - Space, Manam - Mind and the whole communication equipment falls in this category of Mind. All of this merge in the supreme Param - Brahman.
Swahilya.

Prakash said...

Hi
mm vert true....
but the bad thing is we are slowly getting addicted to these...
Prakash

Swahilya Shambhavi said...

Prakash, I bet you are right. But the universal link is simply appealing.

Ganesh said...

Amen,
everybody is connected now, literally speaking

Swahilya Shambhavi said...

Oh wow, Ganesh. Om Shanti Shanti Shanthihi.