It's a Teeny Tiny World

What’s the difference between being in at adjacent room and being on the other side of the globe? Is it the distance? Is it the time taken to send a message across? Is it the proximity or the 3000 miles that separate them? Or is it all just psychological?
With the internet around and mobile connectivity reaching the farthest nooks and crannies of the once huge world, it has virtually shrunk it to the size of, well… a mobile phone??? People know places even before visiting them. We even get back from our visits only to check them out on wikipedia! It's also so weird how people make friends over the phone and on the net more easilythan they might in person!!!
Is there a concept of home sickness? How far is far if we can speak to anyone we want to in the blink of a eye or reach any place on the earth we want to in just about 20 hours? Now, ‘so far removed’ from my family I feel no home sickness. I have not spoken to them, I have not met them but they every small thing I’ve done since I landed here in Atlanta. Not only them, the whole family and the second circle too are up-to-date as well.
With the internet, we don’t have to remember anything. There is no need to remember the Avagadro’s number. We can find out the capital of French Polynesia in a matter of seconds. And oh... the most brilliant of all you needn’t remember the thousand complicated recepies that mom taught you before sending you to the ‘ghar ke bahar’.
As I write Navin’s calling up his friend in the other room to say he’s fine after the thunderstorm. Later, he calls India to tell his mom that he’s doing fine...