For the past many years i was under tremendous peer pressure regarding my lack of computer literacy. It followed my subconscious mind like a ghost.It created a complex and affected my normal interaction with my colleagues .I would try to veer clear of any mention of computers.But my friends would insist on my having to do something with computers. The very idea of learning it gave me jitters.I tried to get tutored but failed to make head or tail of the vast network of icons and figures in the box.I would try to fiddle with the keys in privacy to get familiar and be rid of the terrible fear of being ridiculed for my inability to learn .Being advanced in years it started taking toll of my mental health. I wished to reason out with my friends as to why lack of computer knowledge will make me a lesser human-being than them.But their flashy eyes and charged advice revealed my low I.Q. and i was a pariah in my own group. I felt i was missing out a world without which my entire assorted knowledge was a waste.And today i am here on this page having the last laugh because the entire peer pressure turned out to be a mountain of a mole hill.
She looked wistfully at the white blankness of her lap top . She remembered the days when from a very young age she had ventured into writing secretly in her torn notebook which she would take out from her school bag. Moreover, She hardly remembered having filled it with school work. Rather she had faint memories of ever being a regular student. And those were the days when the parents, in the joint families, had other cares than to worry about the school affairs of their children. Moreover it was the responsibility of the family elders to see that the grand children were tutored well. The schools were far away from home and the children had to walk down to reach them. In the way there were many distractions ,mainly they would linger on on the narrow bridge which they had to cross to reach their school. They often stood there l...
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