I am a family girl. I belong to a large family, MashaAllah, and we’re all very close to each other. All my cousins of the paternal side of my family treat each other as brothers and sisters, not as cousins at all. So people might expect me to say that this is one luxury that I cannot live without. Actually this is not luxury for me, this is like a necessity, something that constitutes me, so I wouldn’t put it in the column of luxury, I would term it as a necessity like food, water and shelter.
The one luxury that I can’t live without is: the internet. Without this, I feel empty. I simply have to check in and browse the internet atleast once a day. The only time I can go on without it is if I’m enjoying with my family and friends. I’ve been a regular user of the internet since the year 2000, when I was only 8 years old. We used to have dial up internet connections then. It took a long, long time for a page to load up and open and I remember that my computer time was fixed by my Mom and even an hour on the internet seemed like nothing. Thank goodness that broad band and Wi-Fi has been introduced! It is sooo convenient! No wires littering up the place!
I love this era. The only thing I don’t like about it is that the kids are too much into video games, cartoons, movies, etc. They are too “digitalized”- if that’s even a word. We also used the internet as kids, like I’ve already mentioned, but 5pm to 7pm used to be my play time when I used to go outside the house and played in our apartment parking lot with my siblings and neighbourhood friends. The games we used to play like Help, Help! , Baraf Paani, Pakram Pakraai, Aankh Macholi, Chor Police, and many more are rarely known to kids nowadays. How I miss those times! Sigh…
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