Look Ma, What the Internet has Done to the Holidays!

Emptying our purses, filling our closets and losing our souls in exchange!

I saw a lady dressed up in a Halloween costume — flowing robes, scary makeup and works, walking by the wayside. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that it was October 28, a good 2 days before Halloween.

And I told to myself “ Look Ma, what the Internet has done to the holidays!”

Internet and the seamless connectivity that it brings in has muddled our perception of holidays — especially that small matter of temporal distinction between festive days. Seriously, being plugged in to internet for most of my waking hours, I have trouble figuring it all out.

Not so long ago festivals were associated with a particular day or a time in our calenders. Looks like that is about to change, Or, has it already?

The conduits of ‘information revolution’ continuously reminds us how many days,hours, minutes and moments to go before the next festival, keeping us in a state of continuous alert.

Haven’t you noticed that these days festivals come first to the Internet ? Worse still, many festivals do not even bother to come to our hearts and homes.

The year is no longer divided in to months anymore, ‘they’ have sliced the year in to seemingly seamless chunks of holiday seasons.

We slip and slide from one holiday sale to another — emptying our purses, filling our closets and losing our souls in exchange!

The day is not too far when the whole year become one single ‘season’ and we all become zombies - waking up one day to find that we have grown way too old since the last time we checked in.

The ink on the calendar has started to smudge, it is all about to become one collage where colors do not matter.

Wake up, celebrate life, not the ‘sales’.