People are so unjust. I, too, am a curious chap and have a lot of doubts about the world around me. If I do not make a nuisance of myself asking people to clarify my doubts, and thereby proving that I am observant and analytical, it is merely because people have this unnatural habit of braying laughter when I ask my most serious queries.
Take this for example. I have never really understood why girls pose in photographs as though someone had yanked the straw out of their mouths just as they were about to suck on their soft drinks. And most times it is not even like it is a soft drink advertisement where I could assume that they are supposed to look angry at being deprived of their favorite drink. I seek clarification on this. The women 'unfriend' me and the men share the post with a 'Can you believe this moron?' Come now, is it fair? Others ask questions and you praise them for raising important issues. When I do...
But then I had not understood this interest in photographing oneself. I mean, even in the past, people used to go to great lengths - tying strings to pull and click themselves, setting timers and running like a hare to position themselves in front of the camera, and what not. So, yes, when the 'selfie' thing came around, making it easy to click oneself, I sort of got why it became so popular. What I never did get is WHY human beings so loved clicking themselves? I mean, the professional photographer would do a better job than you, so why did you so want to click yourself? I raise this query on this important facet of human psychology and all I get is, "Of course you would not know. YOU would dread looking into the mirror, so why would you want photographs of yourself?" Ah! Shades of Narcissus!
Maybe the only way I would learn about the deep meaning of all this would be if I started doing it myself. If you cannot learn from others, you perforce have to learn from experience.
I hold my phone at arm's length and purse my lips as though I was about to suck on a straw. I look at the image on my phone...
You guys thank your lucky stars that I dropped my phone and screamed in fear...before the pic was clicked!
Sir ji, you changed your old Nokia phone finally???
ReplyDeleteNope. Even THAT has a camera :)
DeleteI think I may have said this before also, ut you are rationally funny, Sir
ReplyDeleteWell selfie goes to fb and then there are likes that you like and it goes on
ReplyDelete.....have u seen the internet image of a ketten looking at a mirror and imagining to be a lion?
Ah! So I have THAT treat in store for me? :)
DeleteHaha.I never could get the duck selfie myself.. What do you say for starting a new trend.. The burger selfie :)
ReplyDeleteSpare me the selfies :) Any variety :)
DeleteHilarious Suresh :) I have always been camera shy and, as you know, I have every reason to be :) first thing that jumps to mind is to spare others of the painful experience that you mention at the end :) Worse, If I post it on FB then the polite ones will Like it, those with a funny bone will even like it with the HaHa emoji and the really mean ones might even add a comment like "you look handsome" and we both know nothing could be farther from the truth :)
ReplyDeleteThe recent rise in selfie deaths makes me wonder if the belief in some cultures that having one's picture taken reduces one's lifespan has some truth behind it. Of course, that is the sort of reasoning that you warned us against in your post 'Post Hoc' :)
Hahaha - Yeah, at last that idea of pics reducing one's lifetime proves true :)
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