I am not really sure what I want to do with this blog. When I feel like doing something about its present state of abandonment, I am reminded of the fact that come December I will lose all my old entries from blog-city. This usually propels me to either start posting the old blog-city posts here (Sorry for not answering your comment Shirin), or dampens my mood. In any case, here I am again.
There is a new trick in town, one more step in the effort to avoid all types of acknowledgment of other forms of life around us. First there was the newspaper, pretend you are reading the news paper and hope no one will smile or talk to you. Then the cell phone, call your voicemail and listen to your old messages. The iPod, plug those speakers in and you don’t have to listen to the bus driver greeting you on the bus, or even acknowledge him. Add a pair of dark glasses and you are set for life baby. This eliminates all possibilities. So you have now eliminated even the slight chance that you may meet someone’s eye on the road and have to smile at them.
I loved my iPod, till the point that it started to make me deaf. But I am not a big fan of listening to the iPod when I am walking around, on the bus, or jogging. I like to hear background noises, when I am jogging or walking I like to hear the birds. Also I like greeting people and hearing what they say.
Why are people so against smiling at or greeting a stranger that they have to go to these extremes?
I guess my travel time is really small, if I needed to travel for an hour every day I would have these on too. I doubt it.
