Timeless Giggles

Smallest things give the greatest joy and that is where our greatest happiness lies. It was my first pay and I was exhilarated. With that, I purchased my new smart phone with activated 3G connectivity, first to have to have it in the family. I carried it as the badge of my pride, as I had earned it to feel that. I flaunted it to all my family members, happiness simply multiplied. I can never forget those happy faces. It was only later on that phone had become burden for me. I had to do my work on Sunday’s as well as I had easy access to internet from anywhere.

World Of Mobile
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One Sunday while working, my ten year old nephew walked up to me and asked, “Popo (that is what he calls me), ain’t your phone fun? My friend’s dad has it… and he plays games on it all the time.”

I dint know what to tell him. I smiled at him and opened the Pandora’s Box and showed him what internet, games, apps, videos and social networking was. I told him how internet had enabled us and get all things on our finger touch. How I could work online, how I could surf the web on the move, how I could shop and in between he asked me, “Can we download games for free or do we have to buy?” I smiled and said “Yes, we could do both.”

I was amazed by the way he swallowed all the information. They are fast! It was not too late before he started operating my phone all by himself and showed me more fun features and taught me how to use maps and games. I saw him having fun more than ever. Without me teaching him, he learnt to download his favourite songs, wallpapers and mobile apps all by himself! Wow! Children are getting smart with smart technology.  I thought to myself.

Few weeks later, I woke up with some giggles coming from the hallway. It was time to go for work, so I just brushed around to see who it was. I saw my grandparents, working on my mobile.

NO. That’s not what they did.  I moved slightly closer to have a clear picture. I saw my grandfather was showing something to my bed-ridden grandma on my phone. I dint really want to disturb them, but my grandma replied just like my nephew with the same excitement in her tone, “I saw my friend after 30 years.”  Then I heard my grandpa say, “That was Facebook. This phone, it’s just like Alice’s Wonderland.” I dint quite understand what he meant but I felt he was charmed by the phone that could do everything. I wondered if it was phone or the internet on the phone that made my grandparents behave like kids!

I appreciated his imagination, and then I wondered how he had learned all this. To my surprise, he grasped the same knowledge that I fed my nephew with. He was watching, learning and understanding at the same time.

Few more giggles were heard when they were enjoying themselves with ‘Talking Tom Cat’ app. I just couldn’t enjoy myself more with their joys. I couldn’t believe such things were making them happy, while they remain vital part of my life. Internet, Facebook, applications, chatting, games much more on my mobile had become mundane for me while it was pristine joy, pleasure and fun for them! While I thought internet on mobile was work, email, more work and more mails…but for them internet on mobile was fun!!! Yes, they made me realise that internet is not just work but a lot more fun!

This post is my entry for the indiBlogger.in contest ‘Internet is fun’, sponsored by Vodafone. Readers can have a look at the Vodafone fun page – http://www.vodafone.in/fun