THE End!

 True, all of us are most eagerly waiting for it. But, no, the title of our blog today does not refer to the much-awaited end of the war before rogue states turn it in to a horrible tragedy that words would find difficult to describe.

Well, I am talking today of a still much worse 'dis-ease'. Okay, let me explain. Have you heard of Misha Agarwal? Twenty-four years old. An influencer on the Insta. No, I have not read her posts 'coz I am not on the Insta. Well, those of you who are on to all these social media would say that those sites are full of many such power(on the mind of others)-mongers, right?

That is the tragedy precisely. Apparently, this young lady was popular on the social media. As she had to share that invisible, and yet most visible, space with many others of her ilk, her popularity, the number of her followers, started dwindling. She took the downsizing so much to heart that she committed suicide! 

An influencer has such a fragile, brittle mindscape! How could such an identity be inspirational? A new thread would have been possible. Re-inventing her site/self would have been energising. Why is it that the so-called young these days are so fragile psychologically? Is it because of the media that gives an impossible and highly competitive model to live by? Why do not these lost souls think of their own parents, the immediate family?

 Why are they so thought-less and impulsive? Why the negativity when they are quite better off, when they do not have to struggle for the bare minimum necessities, nor do they have to fight in a terribly difficult war as a soldier!?! It is downright self-indulgence, to constantly carp about one's own ego (needs)! Anyways, it is this brittleness, rooted in the lack of communication lost to the surreal world of social media, that is the real end! Oh, yes, the AI with its super(smart) agents is lurking just near the corner!

Pratima@De-learning old ways, re-learning new skills, thereby re-inventing oneself time and again would be the only path to be followed in times to come. We, the ordinary people, too, would now need at least ten avataars in a lifetime!