Now a days, The most common thing that we human beings come across is EXCUSES. Excuses for flunking a class, Excuses for failing in exam and excuses for missing deadline in office. The facet becomes worst when we start giving excuses to ourselves. Excuses for taking drugs, Excuses for breaking a relationship and an excuse for every nefarious act. The very fact is the day we start giving excuses to ourselves we are not in our mere control. A strong desire and indepth commitment never needs an excuse and every immoral act in this world starts with an excuse.

Lets take an example of Drinking When someone starts Drinking the First excuse he gives is “Do try everything in Life” and when this Trying becomes repeatable the excuse comes is “Drinking is bad only, if you are addicted to it, occasional drinking is never bad”. Later on when the frequency of these occasions increases and their time period decreases and one finds himself addicted to it, the next excuse is “Drinking is never bad until and unless after drinking you do something that is REALLY BAD” and when he starts doing something REALLY BAD the excuse is he can’t do anything because the things are now, not in his hand. So we found that how a simple excuse can change the things.

Giving excuse is never difficult. We can completely conclude a scenario or situation in simply few sentences or words. But at the same time, a voice from our inner soul, must question ourselves, our ability but later on when the frequency of these excuses increases we start overhearing that feeble voice.

When we failed in an exam, we have a wonderful universal excuse that Question Paper was tough, But there always exist a person who have performed well in that exam, If he can that why can’t we. We give excuse to ourselves when we break up with our near and dear ones saying that they are not honest and we are wrong in judging them. But how one person who once sounded perfectly perfect can turn into malevolent. They may for sometime behave undesirably but that doesn’t mean they have changed. What actually has changed is our opinion towards them and inspite of accepting it we gave ourselves lame excuses.

Life can be far better and perfect, if we stop giving ourselves excuses. Excuses are nothing but our weaknesses. If we are passionate about doing something then we never give any excuse. Moreover, if anyhow we have made mistake then its better to accept it than to make an excuse. Excuses lead to nowhere.

I remember when I was kid and didn’t do my homework, My Mother used to lock me in the store room, located in one corner of our house. That was the most harrowing punishment I could imagine at that time. What I fear most was my belief that Ghost came in that room when it was dark. That fear was commensurate enough to make my tongue stammer and legs tremble. But as I grow up I realised that there doesn’t anything like Ghosts. But how much we grow up and how much we learn wisdom the child in us which we left behind sometimes comes back to us.

Sometimes when it was dark and I’m all alone. When the curtains of my room start reverberating with air or the Stridultary organ of Cricket start chirping in the darkness of night. My heart start beating fast, and I slowly open one of my closed eyes, to inquire the provenance of disturbance, recalling that ghost doesn’t exist. A smile aroused on my face. I go back in my childhood days when I had my own theory of ghost, My own beliefs which i can still recall:

1. Ghosts are afraid of Fire.

2. Ghost can’t harm you, if you have a locket embarking a God’s Picture or OM in your neck.

3. If you see a Ghost and anyhow Ghost come to know this, He’ll surely kill you.

4. If you start chanting Hanuman Chalisa after seeing Ghost, Ghost can’t harm you in anyway.

5.Ghosts have feet in opposite direction.

6.Ghosts work only in night shifts, They remain invisible during day time.

7. Ghosts are purely non-vegetarian and Blood is their favourite food.

8. Not all Ghosts are bad.

9. If you are sleeping in open space along with others in night, then Ghost must attack firstly who is sleeping on edge.

10. While sleeping in open you must not point your finger in sky nor throw Torch’s light otherwise Ghost come to know about your existence.

11. Black is the favourite color of Ghosts.

12. Bullets, Electric shock can’t harm Ghost, only TRISHUL can harm him.

13. 13 is the favourite number of Ghosts.

14. Most often Ghosts reside on Pipal Tree.

These were my myths regarding Ghosts, I can’t stop smiling when I remember all this. Life was far easy when we fear Ghosts and The fear of Ghosts was not that fearful. I wish I can go back to GHOSTY Days

I remember when I started enunciating, My Mom used to teach me the name of fruits, flowers and Birds. At that time i assimilate brilliantly that Blackberry and Apple were edible fruits. Since then, things changed and with it changed the meaning of words. Now, Apple and Blackberry are not mere fruits. Search Google, ask your teacher, do research but not a single thing is going to say that they are mere fruits. The day is not far away when the english book of nursery disseminate A as Apple, a mobile device and B as Blackberry again a Mobile device.

Yesterday, it was a different day of my life. It was different in some special way. The sun still rises in east and sets in west, I haven’t topped any competitive exam nor i was proscribed from my company. But still its different, very different. I forgot my mobile at home. Though, I was not far away from my Home when i realised that i had missed my mobile but let it be. I didn’t know then that things were not that easy. After a little time, I found myself aloof from the whole world. It amazed me, If I had became a mere parasite of Technology..?? I had spent 15 years of my life without these things, but then it seemed as if i couldn’t live without them. After every 15 mins, in a round-robin fashion, my hand was visiting my pocket and then cursing me for forgetting the craziest invention of 21st century.

I realised that growth of mobile phones has resulted in a Death – The death of distance, The death of reality, and foremost the death of privacy. The physical location of you is now immaterial. You are always connected, always near and always here. I found myself a parasite. A Parasite who is addicted to comforts of technology and now i hate it.

I remember when i had been given my first phone. I used it ONLY for two purposes i.e. to give miss call to my parents and to call my brother. My contact list had only 10 names but now things had changed.

The important thing is, Its not only the single thing to whom i get addicted there must be many more also. We never know about addiction until we are forced to quit the thing with which we are addicted. Now we are mere programmed device who can’t live a life that is away from technology. The day is not far when we, who created the technology are governed my technology. The matrix movie can be the reality of tomorrow.

Yesterday I really wanted to go back to the days when Blackberry and Apple were mere fruits but while i was thinking it a voice from deep corner of my heart speak out idiot first go home and check miss calls..!