The Definition of having FRIENDS!!!!!!

Don't be amazed if you happen to hear this......."I have 3000 friends now!!!!"(In social networking site of-course)…..this is the reality of an individual today. People have become prey to social attention in social networking sites and prone to remain in infatuation that they have many friends. I won’t say I am not a victim of this craziness, but I would rather define myself as an elegant netizen (the craziest of all-: who knows all the consequences but still does it!!!)

Now the most blatant thing in the social networking site is  that you will be friends with every other person you know in this world-: you will have school friends (half of them will remember you as someone else), college friends(those who have heard your name), office friends(who remember you especially at lunch time), club friends( where you have no idea what you are there for), booze friends( if you drink then you will find many friends in this section, they are patient, loving and trustworthy until you pay for their drinks or you die due to liver failure), real friends(those whom you actually happen to know), virtual friends(some of them may be corrupt programs) etc.

The person who was lonely before social network came, has now a record breaking friends online. Now their phone is their new best friend and they think they have expanded their social life. All I know is that everything has become just for show. You click pictures, write status and comments and share many things and people respond by liking your activities……but my question is do they actually like them? Has human expression has been replaced by emoticons and by couple of stickers??? Do I really have friends or they are just photographs???.....Is this all real????

When I discussed with one of my real friends about all this, she said, “If you will think so much about it then you will get depressed, better be in unreal world and remain happy rather than pondering on the real one”. Now for me it was like finding out that Santa Claus isn’t real but still remaining happy as long as I get cookies!!!

But I would rather end up with no friends than having many unreal friends!!!

Music........ is the best Medicine!!!!

Sometime back I chose to learn music to relieve my tension. I tried to choose the easiest instrument that won't judge my abilities as a first time learner- "the synthesizer". I was wrong in every aspect of judging the synthesizer as the easiest instrument of all. Music through it was easy to learn but needed feelings and I lacked that. It’s been almost 2 years since I have been learning synthesizer. In these two years not only my instrument has become my closest friend but also has become my consultant/therapist/teacher etc. 

What I have learnt through music is to never give up on your passion to learn something new in life but also to think through heart rather than being practical all the time; never give up on yourself today because there will always be tomorrow to test your skills. So keep trying and keep learning, not only from music but from life itself.

If you ever get tensed in life and you think that life is a mess and everything is so monotonous, turn to music- it will give you self-realization!!!!