People make us run away from Facebook and Instagram. See you are in love and we understand that okay early twenties and you got a girl way out of your league and the girl got a guy who she dreamed about all life, you roam around and post pics and we dutifully like and comment and say all "wow", "Made for each other" , "Cute Couple" (This thing is like a headache. All two hundred comments will say "Cute couple, cute couple, cute couple"). Now, in India uploading your couple pics before wedding is same as making love before wedding. Even this making love thing is common nowadays but pic with your loved ones on social media? Taboo. There is a reason. Our great grandmother, uncle, aunt, uncle from mother's elder sister side, aunt from father's younger brother side, some second chain blood relatives, till the baby who was born today morning are having a active social life. (This active social life means, the moment we post something , our parents would get a call. Last time I posted something, my dad got a call in half an hour saying "Your son is in so and so place it seems?" to which my dad replied "yes, I am with him too").
Now the next category. Married people . Kindly save us the humiliation. Arre listen you are married and in deep love with each other we get it. But posting pics with roses after 5 years of wedding like proposing each other for the first time and all it is so irritating. And out of the box information, you got arranged marriage. The problem is we know that non sense you did before wedding. Now again coming and saying that "Found the love of my life" (you told that six times to us already before your wedding ). See we get it you are married, what is the point of checking in all the places to you to in social media? Going to restaurant, going to coffee shop,going to grocery shop, going to telephone exchange, electricity board, even going to take a dump you will update ah? Whole nation was burning on different issues and you keep posting your pics after 6 years of wedding and saying found the love of my life?
The special criteria is people who know that they wont get any likes (which roughly translates to no one gives a damn) still keep on uploading the pics every week. Once they change the dp, they will ping us only. They will ask how are you? How is your trip to mars? How is your street dog? now we wont even know that girl/guy properly . The moment you ask how are you by mistake, you are doomed. Enjoooooooooooooooooooyed sssssooooooooooooooo much. Had fun with bestieeeeees. Cute gathering of cousinssssss , missing those loveable idiots , I miss those moments , sob sob sob. They will transform your whatsapp chat into a trail of their social media posting.
To all those wonderful souls who have a really wonderful social life with lots of likes, lots of followers and the ambulance commentators (Wow, wow wow), lets get this straight. No body gives a damn. Worse, they are laughing behind your back, they secretly pray that your friendships must just get lost. Still we wont bother who says what. We are always eager to seek attention, lime light, to show off that we are doing so much better than the rest of the world. Use those platforms for something wonderful to motivate people, to learn , to educate, to create, to spread awareness.
The moments you truly enjoy, you wont record it . You live it . You relish it.
Life is beautiful,
With love,
Arvi
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