Sitting at one corner of my house, I am seeing through the windows of my memories. with no other better jobs to do, rather say, enjoying the present retired life!
Old memories of the childhood days do throng my memories then and there, seeing the present hectic days for the children! There are so many things of the present, I am amazed of and I immediately compare the times of those olden days!
The first thing that would come to my mind is the communications facilities. Take for instance, Telephone. Mobile phones are in extensive use nowadays! If there are four persons in a family, each of the four is having a mobile number of his/her own. With each one's hectic life both in and out of the house, a mobile phone becomes almost necessary . I am reminded of the good old days, when Telephone was a very rare thing. Even as late as sixties or seventies, hardly one in thirty would be owning a telephone. We had to make friends with the one nearby who had a telephone connection and depend on them for any urgent STD calls to be made or received. I remember the days when this kind of disturbances naturally used to irritate them.
Needless to say about present days' advanced mode of communication through telephone or mobiles!
Some years back it was a very scarce possibility that all the people around us had a Television in their house. I remember having gone to one of my neighbour's house to see a particular programme of old film music which used to be relayed every Friday! I can never forget those minutes of bliss when I could hear my favorite old songs! The situation is still green in my memories! All the people would throng there to spend that 45 minutes and the small house would be fully crowded. Sometimes the head of the family would even curse others within himself ; it is so natural! The moment he enters home after spending a stressful day outside, if he does not get a little privacy in his own house once he peeps in, how bad that poor man would feel ! Compare those days with that of the present, Computers have taken the place of TV and Internet is freely available even on mobile phones and the fortunate or unfortunate thing it is that almost all can afford to own one nowadays!
Like this there are so many and many facilities of the Present days which were just unheard of, those days!
