After one more tiring day at Office, When I was about to sleep early by 11pm,
My friends started calling up.
Well, I dont want to be rude to someone who wanted to talk to me. So, I woke up and start listening and then slowly come back alive and pick up some conversation.
When I observe the trend of this midnight calls, I observed following things.
1. Usually only very close friends call /answer to late night calls
2. It begins with the most stupid question which has an obvious answer (and i still dont know why, even friends ask the same, just to keep the formality I think) "How are you?", "I am Fine!!"
the most important point I noticed is
3. We talk about the (un)important twists and turns of our lives, Life being crazy towards us mainly about Love, Family, Work life, Friends etc. But In midnight calls, Lost (??) love, Family problems and all. Parents'over-reaction to so-called Love stories, Clashes with friends about lovers are mostly talked about.
What I feel is..
There is something going strange in the lives of people who think they got lost and need some company.
The telephone operators got this crazy idea of making money by making night call rates cheaper and (un)limited call offers and thus affecting social life of people.
I feel funny when I see some old bollywood movies ( when mobiles phones were not introduced. Tough to imagine. Right??) where Hero and heroin think about each other the whole night and write letters (What??) to express their feelings to each other. Desperately wait for the next day, try to catch up the first chance of meeting their loved one and secretly passing their letters (sometimes with the help of friends), reading the letters smiling, blushing all the way then finally giving an odd expression which means "I need more" kinda stuff!!
Now, so-called Lovers have their own mobiles to talk to their counterparts and keep-in-touch 24 hrs to each other. Their morning begins with a wake-up call, then breakfast call, Travel msgs, what (the hell) are you doing call, evening chat, sweet dreams call until late in the night.
And when there is a clash with their boyfriend or girl friend or parents'trouble.. Huh, People need some one else to talk with who they think can help them somehow atleast to listen the struggle (?) they are facing in their personal lives.
Ultimately screwing up the happy sleep of victims like me!!
