“Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to Resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here..”
Right.. so its not like I’m not a happy person.. Innately I am.. (Ahem.. refer smiley at the end of the post to believe me..)
But this joint effort by the world to get me to disable my facebook account.. Its kinda annoying me…
There was once when I could tolerate “Happily Married”, “Forever and After”, “Our beautiful Wedding” pics flooding my Facebook wall..couples holding hands, going through the same old ceremonies, all the shine n glitter n gloss that accompanies one’s wedding… and everybody else commenting how beautiful the bride looks.. I mean yes, they are MADE to look beautiful on their wedding day… if not that day, then when??
And even if the bride did really not look that great, I bet nobody would be cruel enough to go ahead and say “Oh my! U look ghastly! Y didn’t u try a different salon for your bridal makeup?? “
Then came the Baby-boom.. Somehow everyone decided to sync their Timelines, and go ahead and have babies around the same time… and then add all the “Cute baby”, “My newborn baby”, ‘The latest addition to my family” albums to their Facebook pages….. and in effect.. my wall was yet again flooded… but this time with the salivating, rosy cheeked, ogling eyed babies… Then again, I bit my lip, held my breath and told myself, its only a phase… 5 years down the road, you wont find these people posting so many pictures of their babies (then again, not that I am opposed to babies, I love them and think they are extremely cute)…
And now, to top it all, almost as if people cant get enough of themselves, theres a new thief on the prowl… “Pre-wedding pics”.. Its almost as if they cant foresee all the posing they’ll have to do during their wedding, or maybe it’s a trial-run to the big-day… When I look at these pics I just feel like screaming my lungs out “Look dudes, u guys r posing”..atleast if the pics were entirely natural, in-the-moment ones, I would totally understand, cos most wedding photographers do not seem to understand the term ‘Capturing the moment’.. and most wedding photographs end up being theatrical attempts at replaying the festivities.. and hence in no way end up being natural (thanks to the friends who actually come down and salvage the event by actually capturing the moments selectively).
On the whole, all this just makes me ponder over the following once again:
1. What was the original point of social-networking websites?
2. Why is there an inherent need for social-acceptance among human-beings?
3. Why would anyone want to go through the ordeal of posing and re-posing and re-posing? (I especially pity the girls cos they are the ones who carry n-layers of makeup on their faces)
4. Why is the world plotting to get me off Facebook???
I definitely don’t have an answer to the last two questions. The first two.. another day, another post maybe..
And once again… I am an extremely happy person by nature! U’ve gotta trust me on that one J
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