Password Lost

Lost my password of happiness……………………………………

Vikram Agrawal


In this world of rapid development, we have passwords for every thing. Just by sitting in front of a computer, we can get all our work done without any personal interaction with the girls of the concerned department, be it an e-newspaper, mailing website, online banking , credit card, phone bill payment portal etc. And it is because of the absence of this one-to-one interaction with girls that we are continuously losing our happiness.

With the BPO concept forming a large picture in the Indian landscape, the most prominent aspect that comes to fore is the big presence of the female voice in the call center business. Whether you receive a call for a loan, a policy or merchandise sales, it seems that the percentage of female voice is increasing. I am, of course, assuming that the BPOs are not hiring male employees versatile in imitating both male and female voices. If this concept becomes viable, the demand for such talent will rise in no time followed by many a coaching institutes cropping up in every nook and cranny training executives to be bi-vocal. Hey! That seems a good business idea isn’t it? But we are talking about happiness here and we should not get distracted from our topic. So, where were we? We were talking about happiness, no? About girls? What do you think? Forget it. Both are one and the same thing. Happiness and sorrow are parts of a life cycle and come in alternate cycles; similarly girls and sorrow are parts of love cycle and come one after other.

In older times the concept of love letter had its own importance. A slight glimpse of that can be seen in bollywood movies. Right from “Maine pyar kiya” to “Vivah” love letters have managed their place in any love story. But now, internet and mailing sites have replaced love letters. Time gap between sending and receiving of a letter has reduced drastically. And this has reduced the excitement, yearning for the letter.Now-a-day, you hardly complete writing a mail, when you receive a mail from your girlfriend, threatening you as why you were taking that much time in sending that mail. In old times, you write a letter and send it to your love with the help of a messenger or Indian post and depending on the mode you choose it used to take 1 day to 15 days (minimum) respectively. This gap was the time period of great excitement, imagination, and fantacies and as a result the bond became stronger. When you ask an answer, you can not help but wait and this waiting period was the reason for a stronger bond. But time has changed now. And it is one of the reasons that the intensity of mutual bond and commitment has reduced drastically.

Some people have their own story to tell. “What ever happens happens for the good.” Sighs Champak. “I still can not forget the traumas of writing the name of my girlfriend using my blood as ink. She used to demand to write her name with my blood if I truly love her. Now, she has learnt how to use mailing sites and she finds it more exciting to write and to receive mails on internet. Now she no longer demands me to write letter” said Champak lal (name changed) while telling the story of her girlfriend Deepika (name changed, actual name Chamanovti). He met me at a hospital while he was collecting a bottle of blood to be used as an ink. When I asked him why he was purchasing that bottle then he said that at the end of the day she was a girl and who knows when her mood change. Moreover he was taking blood of the same group, just to be on the safer side.

With the advent of mailing sites, the percentage of love converting in marriage has reduced. Previously what used to happen was that you exchange letters and in due course of time your letter got caught by your parents. Then the real battle begun and after some time there were chances that they might agree with the proposal. It could be thought of as a gesture of help from God to those love birds. Now, man has become so advanced that God no longer think human beings need His help. As all mails are exchanged on internet, parents hardly get any chance to know about the relationship and if birds don’t have the courage to put the proposal to their parents, then they have to live all through their lives in memories of each other.

Spending power of all Indians has increased. Thanks to the concept of ATM. But we acquired this power after a strong diet of our bank balance. All we require is a card and a password. “In the maze of different passwords, to remember your ATM password is very difficult unless you regularly withdraw money from your account. So, I am bound to with draw money at regular intervals. Moreover, I can not write my password somewhere as there is always a chance of losing that slip” Said Gaurav.With the advent of ATMs, our spending power has increased but our investment power has reduced. It is just like when you take steroids or goes to gym to build your muscles, your muscle power increases but it has an adverse effect on your masculine power.

Everyone has a tendency to think about present only and very few persons think about future also. The same principle applies when we read our online newspaper. In morning in this fast life we hardly find any time to spare some moments to read a newspaper. And moreover we think that who will take the burden of handling too much papers and selling it one day. All we do is register ourselves on a newspaper site and get a password and read online edition of the newspaper from our offices. But later in evening and in night when we feel the need of it, then we think that it would have been better if we had one hard copy of the newspaper. At that stage we can not go to the market and get one. It’s too late by then. Somehow we control our desire and use other sources to get the things done and decide to subscribe for one the next morning. We all think on the same lines and our thinking is getting corrupted day by day in this dirty world. The desire is of reading the top stories. The desire to read the top stories in details has to be subsided. In our offices, we hardly find enough time to read all the stories and we only go through the headlines. Later in evening when we find enough time and desire to read top stories in details, we could not do the same. Then ultimately we switch on a Television and get the news there.

The worst part of password system I find is that chances of meeting girls at the mobile web world and in banks are reduced drastically. You can pay your bill on internet and with the robust technology now a day mobile hardly get damaged so frequently and on Internet you can also check your latest bill amount. So personal interaction with the girls has reduced. Life becomes hell for those whose girlfriends are employed at such places. ”When I was unaware of the system of paying my bills on internet, I regularly visit web world where my girlfriend was employed and our bond became stronger day by day. Now I hardly find any time and purpose to visit there. As a result my friend thinks that I no longer love her. Due to advancement in technology our relation has become sour” lamented Adarsh. Each coin has two sides. The story is no more different at other side. “Earlier a lot of boys used to come to our offices but now the situation is not the same. All boys are same. Give them a computer with Internet and they forget about every thing” said Malika Arora (name changed, actual name Hemlata from Mumbai). The situation is no better in private banks. The survey was not extended to other banks and post offices, where only wives are employed. “Looking at the frustration level of our employee here, we can not dare to employee girls” said one of the top executives of a bank.

The password system has its own advantages too. In the world of credit cards you no longer require to carry cash with you. But that is dangerous too. The thief may kill you after snatching all the credit cards from you as now a day they are intelligent enough and they know that if they allow you to go you may get that card cancelled. So, it’s better to keep a card having password protection. When you are shopping with your girlfriend or with your wife all you have to do is to pretend to forget your password or type wrong passwords so that the card automatically gets blocked. Come on dude! You can always get a new card. When the impulse for shopping gets subdued next time there are chances that you can save a lot more. “Last year with the help of this principle I could save around 58% of the actual amount my wife was planning to spend. My extra expenses were Rs.300 on card renewal and Rs.600 which I spent as doctor’s consultation fees.

We all are human beings and it’s natural for all of us to forget the passwords of our bank accounts or credit card details. There we get a chance to call at the call centre and discuss or problems with girls. If any male picks up that call we can always hang up. After all which one is more important in our life: getting our password and solving tangible problems or those five minutes of ecstasy while talking to a beautiful girl with a beautiful voice. (A caveat: Here an important assumption is that the girl whom you are talking to is beautiful having no boyfriend and she is also enjoying talking with you.) A recent study shows that the probability that you will find such a girl is 0.00001. But it should be noted that the probability is not zero. One can always point that why to wait for that moment where you have a problem. You can always call at any call centre for any quarry and talk with girls as long as you want. But wait. Here lies the difference. When you call at any time, you have a general discussion with them and chances of a bond getting stronger is very less. When you call then at those times when you face a problem, you discuss that problem with them and some one has rightly said that, chances are more that mutual love and affection become stronger when you discuss sorrows and problems rather then when you share some general moments with anyone.

So, here we see that how we have lost our password of happiness in the maze of all other passwords. Still time is in our hands and it’s not too late now.Let’s pick our phone and call at every toll free numbers and drop a few words of love and affection by just saying sorry for doings all the things online and let them know how much we care for girls. But beware it’s a risky step don’t fall in to their trap. It is an individual choice as where he wants to fall. In the trap of passwords or in the trap of girls?