One of my close friends came to me crying like as child. I asked “What happened?” and to make him feel easier and draw a smile from his face I conjoined another question “Did you have breakup?”
He was dead serious and replied “Yes, how did you come to know Abhay?”
I said “What!!!”
“When did it happen? I was just kidding”
He replied “A year ago!”
I exclaimed “What!!!”
“You didn’t tell me for whole one year. I never saw you unhappy either. One year is long time and even if it would have happened, you must have got over it by now! What happened today?” I fired several volleys on him.
His succinct reply was “I tried to keep it dormant since past 12 months but she keeps up popping every time I try to forget her. Now today the threshold has crossed, you are the first one whom I am sharing, please help me get out from this miserable condition. Please make me forget her”
I became perturbed seeing the terrible condition of my friend. He seemed inconsolable.
I thought for a moment and replied “Well, you have all my sympathies. I can do whatever is possible for me to do for you. But since I have never experienced such situation, I think I am not the right person to make you forget her”
He quipped “All the time you talked about yoga, spirituality and so many things…Was all of them fake? Doesn’t all this have a solution for my problem?”
I became silent. I have helped quite a few times to some people. Sometime I helped them is passing semester exams, sometime some financial help etc. But this was unique help asked from me. I offered him to go for a dinner and assured him that we will discuss tomorrow about this topic and probably will reach to a solution.
We had dinner. He told me the whole happenings. I paid proper attention to him to each and every story that he was narrating.
I realized, sometime attachments can be very excruciating. In this world everything is nonpermanent, comes with an expiry date but when we recognize the other thing as our eternal belonging, then problems creep in.
We returned home. I drove him to his home. I returned to my bed. Lying on bed, my eyes were wide open. I thought, I have told him that I will talk tomorrow about how to be normal and forget her, but in reality I simply don’t know what to tell him, how to make him feel normal.
“Should I ask this from my spiritual mentor? No..No..what will he think about me!!! ” a thought reverberated in my mind.
Seeing no other alternative, I thought of turning to a universal Guru “Google Guru” and I am not joking and my intention of mentioning it is not to dilute the gravity of the situation, but my helpless condition where I was put in by my friend, seeing no alternative and the ubiquitous nature of the problem I thought “Google” might come handy. Actually, it was not Google, but one of its subsidiaries “YouTube”.
I switched on my Lap Top and typed the URL “www.youtube.com”.
A lot of suggestive videos came just after typing the URL. It was mainly those videos which I watched frequently. It was of cricket, politics, some funny videos etc etc.
A lightening has struck my mind. “YouTube has also memory” I murmured. Well, this was not unusual to have in YouTube or any other shopping sites. They use the technology called “BigData” to see our browsing pattern and then they floods with similar content, but since my friend was grappling with one memory issue (of course not of memory loss) this usual pattern seemed unique to me.
Machines are made to behave as humans. That is why artificial intelligence is a buzz word now. Isn’t it? If you are not convinced search two words “Sophia” and “Qiu Hao”
on Guru. You will get to know the extent where we are heading.
Anyway, coming to the point, I thought YouTube has a unique feature called “Delete History” and you can also customize it by deleting memory of past hour, week, month etc. . If we delete history, problem is solved. No Suggestive Videos of your previously watched content. All new, Fresh and Pristine.
Alas! My friend doesn’t have that setting called “Selective Deleting of History”.
Memory can be a reason of serious pangs in life.
Disclaimer : I know, you all will treat it as an act of fiction, but from my end its my duty to convey the same that it’s fiction only 🙂 Happy wala Sunday Guys 🙂
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Good analogy drawn from the virtual feature 👌
And yes life would have been easier if we could selectively erase certain memories and so therefore we are getting used to applying the principle of letting it all go!😅
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Thank You! Scientist should hear you…May be a noble prize in physiology is waiting for them!😃
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This is terrible for him and for you because you were in an unprecedented situation.
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I think you didn’t give heed to the disclaimer well! 😉
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Oh God
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What happened?
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I’m too stupid 😓
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Haha.. .. No!!
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Well, I think it was ambiguous, I made it more clear now:)
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This is the second time that I read a long post and still I didn’t read the disclaimer 😅
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Happens with me every time! 😀
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It’s really hard to console..thank god it’s a fiction 😄
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Was waiting for your response 😃
Yes it was fictitious narrative. Hope you would have enjoyed it
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Indeed 😊
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😀😀 I was feeling so sorry for him
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You are so compassionate 😃
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😃😃 can’t help it
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Khubsurat kalpna….kalpnayen bhi dil ki upaj hoti hai…aur dil ki bagiya…asimit hai.👌👌
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Shukriya Bhai! Ye kalpana dil ki nahi, man ki Upaj hai
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बढ़िया है।
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Aap ki kalpana hakikat ke jasa
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Ru aru hai.
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Shukriya.. Likhna safal hua 🙂
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I have been going through nd i don’t know how i stuck to it but this is actually amazing ! Good Job🤐💕
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Hey Divya! Thanks so much for traversing through my post. Really happy to have your encouraging say in my comment box!
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Us humans do have a method of selective deletion and selective storage. All depends on the priority of the moment 🙂 Beautiful write up 🙂
It would be great if you could visit and follow my blog too !! Thank you 🙂
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Thanks Nima for your beautiful words.
Yeah, Now I am your one of the follower!
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