Connected Back to the World

Having spent two years in isolation...cut off from the happenings in and around the world...a far cry from it..even things happening anywhere other than my campus..for my college News Records could be found lying around here and other which I read at times...It feels great to regain your semblance. Well I got my ideal choice to catch up with the rest of the world in the form of my TV...for which I finally got the free cable offered in the dorms.

Wondering how on earth I could have lived like this? It does happen if you aren't an ardent follower of the online news websites which give you minute-by-minute updates. Especially for people like me who are too lazy to check them out unless and until something disastrous happens or rather have a certain kind of aversion towards the website news.

Though the broadband technology supplies quality video clips of news channel, nothing matches watching it from a TV. Or maybe I shall change my opinion with further advancements in bandwidth . Having always been an avid reader of The Hindu with my morning cup of tea, it seems really weird to have been so much dis-associated with the wordly activities. I still feel the magic of reading from newspaper, never surfaces out sitting infront of the dumb computers which are becoming part and parcel of our life. Having unable to overcome my dislike towards online news, I had chosen to stay disengaged :).

My only source of information of the outside world has been till now through my India calls when my parents tell me sometimes when we are out of other important things to discuss, tit-and-bits of the main headlines. My mother dear always makes it a point to call up and inform me of the oncoming hurricane even if its some remote place in U.S, for such is my awareness of the outside world.

Well with assignments, deadlines and school work you can get disconnected, living in a cocoon. Though quite comparable to living in hostel back home in India, the univeristy life here is completely different in lots of ways. When I landed here, my entire first year was literally caught up in swirl of activities..with oncampus job,acclimating to the new surroundings, doing the boring thing on earth-groceries,house cleaning and the most important thing of all- learning to cook, having never ever stepped into the Kitchen room except for tea. Living in a bare house with just the essentials needed to survive in life which you had packed in couple of 32 Kgs suitcase...forced into work load, certain things just slip.

Though I am glad to be able to watch News again, the TV still sits sadly in the living room, untouched most of the times, for I hardly stay at home(which is synonymous for food and sleep). Its quite difficult to realize its presence in the room having been without one for such a long time...May be I shall return to my original self once I graduate. Just my personal perspective...I think there is something in the school environment that says "Stay DISCONNECTED"...May be its my hallucinations:D ..Lets see how Aware i shall stay!