Heaven-Net,
3G mobiles, Apps! The place is abuzz with words that he had never heard of,
thought the Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper was complacent, however. From what he
understood of the Net, this craze would peter out soon. After all, there was no
money and no individual relationships in Heaven, which seemed to negate most of
the uses of the Net. Further all knowledge that souls treasured were not
applicable or even interesting since there were no nations, no wars and no
trade disputes.
The
thing that seemed to have taken the place by storm, however, was something
called Soulbook. Souls from all over the place were exchanging messages with
each other.
“I
am so happy today”, said one soul. “So am I” commented another. “I am happy
too” said a third.
“Never
thought I could play a harp so well”, said a previously tone-deaf soul.
“Neither did I” said another.
“Clouds
can be truly comfortable to lie on”, said a relaxed soul. “Quite! Fluffy and
soft” said another.
Souls
exchanged audios and videos of their harp-playing and cavorting on clouds. They
exchanged games like Ascending-the-cloud-ladder and Navel-contemplating. The
Gatekeeper waited for this craze to peter off.
As
indeed it started doing. After all, after you have read the fortieth comment
about how happy someone is, heard the sixty-seventh great harp recital and read
about the comfort coefficient of the clouds for the zillionth time, it is
difficult to raise any enthusiasm to switch on the mobile and start reading the
same things all over again. The souls had started to realize that when everyone
is happy and equally as good at everything there is actually nothing exciting
to communicate.
Before
the Gatekeeper could rest on his laurels, however, catastrophe struck! Jack had
hacked into Hellnet and, even though their audios, videos and apps would not
open or work in Heaven, messages from their Soulbook became available.
Excitement,
somehow, seemed more preferable to happiness for these modern souls!
i have to finish the last 2 parts. this is really interesting. by the way, you could have put all 5 together in one post. it's not that long.
ReplyDeleteWell! Bhavana complained of length in one of my earlier posts. Thought that losing readers because my posts are too short is far less likely than losing them because they are too long:)
DeleteLol, Suresh!!! You write so well and on such variety of topics that I can hardly keep up. Forget about writing, I cannot even read as much:( I run around wondering which one to read and which not and then I feel so miserable that I can't decide!!! Suresh, could you put up some kind of a widget which will display your favorite posts--at least that will help lazy readers like me to focus and zone in! In btw, your facebook post was fun and kind of close to my heart--I am a crazy fber:)
DeleteHi Bhavana! Thanks for your wonderful appreciation! I am stuck with this dynamic view which seems not to support any widgets and with contest entries out, difficult to change views as some URLs seem view-specific. You could try the labels, though, to select genre of reading (Select Flipcard option and organize by labels)
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