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@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ was over on Thursday and by Monday, my counts started to increase. Doctors were progress, so they decided to discharge me temporarily for a week. Voila! I was out of hospital after a month. I was getting out of a room (a floor I should say) after a month. For 2 days I was in a 2\textsuperscript{nd} floor ward and from -the third day onwards in a room on 8th floor of a building. At times I was free to roam around the floor corridors +the third day onwards in a room on 8\textsuperscript{th} floor of a building. At times I was free to roam around the floor corridors and I was allowed to look through the windows and gaze at the people and the rush outside. But I did not literally -get out of a building for one month. To be specific, from 7th October to 8th November. But the problem was, I didn't +get out of a building for one month. To be specific, from 7\textsuperscript{th} October to 8\textsuperscript{th} November. But the problem was, I didn't feel it. I did not have any problem being in a room for a month with my father. I did not feel happy or special to get out of that room. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Playstation/Internet/armchair/beanbag generation (though I never owned a gaming world is there on my finger tips and I like to get out of it whenever I pleased to do so. I like the power to switch off or log off from others. Being alone is not a problem as long as I am sure I can connect back to the world. But unlike others in this generation, my twitter/facebook usage is very minimal. I might have tweeted some 200 times so far -and get on facebook only once in a week. Itis nothing like "I don't want/like facebook or twitter". Basically, I use +and get on facebook only once in a week. It is nothing like "I don't want/like facebook or twitter". Basically, I use twitter/buzz to update my status or give out news and very rarely do I get something to update :) About facebook, huge volume of information just scares me! I use it once in a while to check on my friends, check their trip pictures, status, etc., but not on the level of reading everything on the wall. But I do follow a lot of other details like dozens @@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ form real human relationships, difficulties in understanding human relations, la problems (some people call it "reset button syndrome" :)) to even lack of moral values (I don't really know how. May be all the fps is making us blood savvy). I should say these are exaggerations. Its not like, no one in the Internet generation can make sense of the world. I point to myself as a proof of concept. I am better off alone in -front of a computer with access to wikipedia and google. But that doesn't mean I am good only there. We are very +front of a computer with access to Wikipedia and Google. But that doesn't mean I am good only there. We are very comfortable getting out of comfort zones too. We do make friends and most of the twitter/facebook/playstation generation do a lot of partying. Most of the page 3 figures are kind of people who can live in a room for a month without much trouble if they have a computer, mobile phone and internet connection. The idea of being a very social guy with a lot of friends from different groups and levels, and a nice family fellow -with lots loving relatives, and someone who feels comfortable being alone in a room with a pc and internet -connection is kind of bizzare! But some how I am able to manage it. May be the contrasting images of me in +with lots loving relatives, and someone who feels comfortable being alone in a room with a PC and internet +connection is kind of bizarre! But some how I am able to manage it. May be the contrasting images of me in different scenarios is a suggestion that the real me is not there in any of these broad pictures. But that is usually the pet idea for grand unified theorists. I am more of a believer in existence of multiple instances. @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ helps in bringing out his personal identity since within the group, identity of who belong to a large variety of groups like me, there are visible contrasting identities on play. Even within a group, the identities from other groups becomes your personal identity. So, ultimately when someone defines me, it will be based on his perspective about me from his knowledge regarding the various identities that I possess. -I think it is true for all human beings. Everyone has different identites in different groups and one's perspective on +I think it is true for all human beings. Everyone has different identities in different groups and one's perspective on another is just an opinion of the group from which he knows the other to be from. In conclusion, what I wanted to say is, it is wrong to say someone belongs to a group just because he is comfortable with a group or he is a part of it. He might belong to another contrasting group too. It is very much possible that he can be comfortable |