Time

I am about to cross a threshold in life in a couple of days time. I will no longer be a teen and according to the average life expectancy, one-third of my life will be over. I am saddened by the thought that I will no longer be a teen, and as I reflect I think I havent done everything a teen should do [;)] .... but then you can always stay young, coz its always all in the mind....

Anyway, as i have been pondering over this, many different thoughts came to my mind. We are living in a wonderful time. I always believed that we are among the lucky generations to live and exist in two different millennia... but that is merely a statistic, defined with a random reference frame in time. But metaphorically it means a lot to mankind in our generation. Coz we live in a rapidly changing time... where things move fast and life is cool. Just think about this. Few hundreds of years back, life did not really move, things must've been so slow! Its obviously relative to today, everything's relative. But then things were the same over long periods of time. The world was disconnected and people were very much confined to a small area.. except maybe for people like Alexander, who, well, were exceptional and thought 'out of the box' as they say in those times. It would have been much more boring as compared to today, I feel. I bet most of us will agree.

Today its absolutely amazing. The very fact that I can communicate with a person thousands of miles away is incredible. Heck, I also know what music he/she is listening to and what track he/she just played (www.last.fm ). Its cool that a band playing somewhere in Western Australia influences me and makes me head-bang to their tunes. They might not even have heard of a place called Mumbai in a country called India :).

Something like this must've been unheard of in the past.

Besides, things change so fast. When we (I mean people aged around 19-20 currently) were kids, things were so much different than they are now. Computers were not popular, we were among the first to be experimented upon by the personal computer concept, and boy did the experiment turn out well. We saw cellphones take over the world. We saw and used the Ipod first. We search on Google and Wikipedia. Its us that really relate to all this, people younger are ignorant / kids / a bit irrelevant, and people older, well, they belong to a few years back. Not that they are left out of the action, they've seen change as well, maybe more than us. So, maybe this applies in general for people who have lived when the millennium changed.

And then there's more to see.... since changes are so rapid. I think that we will be the only ones to see so much change, since for people before us things were nascent and didnt advance as they do today, and for people that come after us, well, then a level of saturation will be reached and things will move slowly again. As for us, we will see artificial intelligence. We will see global warming. We will see fuels run out and alternative fuels developed. I hope we see teleportation :).

As I listen to 'The Who' I wonder, would there be another better time to live in. Maybe the 60s-70s when The Beatles, The Who, Led Zep, Deep Purple etcetera were active and kicking ass!

Maybe there wont be a better time to live in.
So live!

Traveler........

I just used a cool application on facebook.....
On a map you had to mark the cities you have been to....

And my tally as of today.... i.e. 17th September 2007 is

61 cities in four countries...... India, USA, Mauritius and Singapore.......

Lets hope there are a lot more to come..... and soon.......

61 cities in 20 years....... thats 3 a year.... Cool statistic!!

:)

P.S. Life has returned to the boring mode.....
Stumbler, Facebook, Orkut and Last.fm to the rescue!!!!!!!