RIP VAN...WTF??

I stumbled upon my old blog while cleaning my digital attic. It’s like running into box of things from your childhood and how you just stop everything that you are doing and take trip down memory lane.

The first thing that hit me was to that it’s been long time since I posted something. Can’t exactly find a reason why?

Well, so I decided to pick up where I left off a couple of years ago...5 to be precise. That’s like 20 in today’s 50Mbps download speed times.

So, this is me dusting my mental cob webs and trying to rehabilitate my right brain …or is it left??

When I sat down to pen this or key this (nobody pens anymore, apparently) I couldn't help but feel like RIP WAN WINKLE, The character created by Washington Irving who to escape his wife’s nagging wanders off to into the hills (why am I not surprised J) and gets drunk on some moonshine offered by the hill folks and sleeps through the entire American revolution and wakes up only to find that world he knew has turned upside down.

In my attempts to cope the vagaries of life, living up to the Jones's and sometimes just getting by I realized that that I had left behind the metaphorical village in winkle’s story. Just like him I decided to wake up from this induced slumber and get back to my village.

So what’s new with the village then??  Well here’s what I see……

Facebook went public with that all your data and Snowden private. Kim and Kan-ye had a baby so there is another Kardashian we don’t need to keep up with. The royals had made a new addition to the family and Madonna found herself another boy toy from this year’s Vogue calendar. Egypt went crazy and Uncle Sam checks our phones like a crazy ex -girlfriend. We have reached to mars n beyond and yet cancer is still incurable. The whole world is having a financial crunch and yet the number of billionaires doubled or tripled in the last 5 years. Social media has democratized knowledge and yet we are none the wiser. Technology has changed the way we communicate, desecrate, reciprocate, procreate and in some cases defecate information and yet we are clueless about things that matter.  

Begs the question, has the village really changed the things they do or just changed the way they do things.