The way we used to be

I just had a random scary thought and felt the compulsive need to share it with you.

I’m supposedly at work but am updating my facebook status, publishing my blog comments and checking who has responded to my tags. I’m using Windows Live Writer to publish this post and am wondering when I get a wireless set-up happening in the office. G-Talk runs silently in the background.

And, I can imagine many many years from now, my grandchildren will ask me about life in the early 2000′s and I would tell them about the computers we had, the applications we used, sms, facebook, blogger, the i-phone,
g-talk and wireless Internet networks and they would smile at me half-amused, half-pitiful and wonder how we survived.

Grandchild ( cracking up ) : So you’re actually telling me that you would have to key in a word into your computer and this Google thing would generate a list of search returns for you ?
Me : Yes. You don’t think that’s cool. None of us could live without Google back then.
Grandchild : That’s so funny. Thank god I wasn’t born back then. Google. What a funny name. Ha Ha
Me :That was how we lived back then and we learnt to appreciate even the small stuff unlike you youngsters.
Grandchild ( fiddling around with a strange looking contraption) : Hold On Grandma. I think Grandpa’s messaging you. He’s online and wants you to come online too.
Me : It’s been 7 years since he’s gone and he still wants to chat everyday. This man will annoy me even after he’s dead. Who needs these new inventions !

And so I log on to Afterlife-talk.

Blog Title : The Way We Used To Be – Eric Carmen

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