The Walk of Life

Time flies and especially so when you are busy! Every essential appointment seems to be all clustered within the first week of the New Year! Anyway there were times when I was just waiting at some Coffee Shop while dawn and rock did their shopping for ladies' things. As I  looked around me, I noticed how people  especially the younger ones, seem to be spending lots of time with their hand-phones sending short text messages.

I am sure you too do noticed young people nowadays seem to spend so much time on their phones not talking but doing text messaging! It seems like the in thing now. Even older people seems to be doing that! I was made to understand that many young people are ‘dating’ via text messaging! some girls do get into trouble through this text messaging thing!

Well, I can understand it is easy to say the things through text rather than face to face like for example “ U r so Hot". Psychologists seem to say that too much text messaging can make the transition to real-life relating slightly difficult. I have heard of this being mentioned by many mothers of teenagers.

I prefer the old fashion way of getting to know someone. Nothing compares with a face-to-face conversation. This way you can gauge the other person more accurately. Moreover physical meeting allows the chemistry to work so to say. However such meetings usually put the guys in a difficult position when asked a difficult question! If he takes too long to answer then the girl might think he is not up front with his answer! No time to think!

Face-to-face meeting gives you the advantage of knowing where you stand. Or you get a feel of what is the reality. With text-messaging, the other party can choose not to respond immediately but say half an hour later so that he can find the ‘right’ answer.

Of course I do text-messaging too like “Hey where do we meet” or “come quick, I need some cash”, but to build a relationship via text-messaging, it sounds unreal! Perhaps I am really getting old.