Dedicated to my Brother

Technology has been changing so fast, that it is hard to even keep a tab at what’s happening around us. When I was doing my graduation, which is just 5-6 years back, I used to read quite a few of my course textbooks and also enjoy the slow and enriching experience. But when I look at my brother who is half my age, I suddenly start feeling that I have become very outdated. He is always hooked on to Google and games. Spends half of his time spoiling his eyes and ears (TV, video games, iPod, mobile), and the other half, sleeping. When I start arguing with him that you need to concentrate on your studies he replies back by saying that “Didi, how much of your studies are you using in your day to day life”. I start giving him my gyan sessions to which he interrupts me by saying that he does spend a lot of time on Google gathering information on topics that interests him. After half an hour of this conversation, I finally give up and he ends up with a satisfied and content expression. I must admit that I do feel a little uncomfortable after the defeat. One day I sat back and actually pondered over a similar conversation that we had, and I realized that the difference of opinion was there, not because of the generation gap, but because we were not allowing each other to enter into our own worlds. Once this realization came to me, I suddenly got the solution also to the problem. After that day, I made conscious efforts to start sharing my experiences, my day to day incidences and a whole lot of time pass stuff with him. To my surprise, I found that he also reciprocated back by allowing me to enter into his world of dreams and fantasies. After about a month of communication, when I again sat down to introspect, I had tears in my eyes. In this whole one month process, I had actually ended up reliving my years of childhood. We as siblings even today don’t agree upon a lot of issues in life, but the one thing that we have developed is the bonding and the compassion to understand each other’s point of view.