Christified!

My personal favorite are the mystery stories of Agatha Christie. I have been reading it from last two decades on repeat. It has happened time and again that I crave to read an Agatha Christie after many different reads, a stressful day or just to feel charged! That is my go to book collection and there are plenty of them so I never get bored. I get one from the library or listen it from audible while doing my chores on a quiet monotonous day. It adds my kind of spice to a bland day!

Another thought is coming to my mind right now. A new kind of illness. Loneliness… a disease that is directly proportional to the increasing population of the world. The irony! With silence and stealth, it is eating up the human mind with a lot of warning signs that are getting ignored. But the scary part is that it has no cure.

These days people don’t want to talk to each other. They are so engrossed in the artificial world of technology. Two people sitting next to each other hardly converse. Long gone are the days when family members sat together and chatted with each other without any electronic distractions. It all seems well and good right now but no Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Siri or Alexa can replace a real human being of flesh and blood. A time will come when people will need more than entertaining reels and to the point robotic answers to their questions. And that day will be scary. Looks like any amount of warnings and write ups cannot avoid this ultimate scenario because technology has become an addiction. There is a lot of awareness but nothing seems to be working out.

But I have a probable solution. Why not dive into another artificial world, the world of books? It is the old time tried and tested greatest companion humans have ever had. One can travel to a fictional world (away from this world if it bugs you) and get lost in the characters, see places you never been to and do things you never could do in real. People can argue that this is also a fake world hidden in pages. But I can argue that it is proved and tested not to cause any physical or mental harm! It reduces stress, increases concentration and provide the thrill that you needed in your otherwise monotonous life. A food for thought!