Stalk Exchange!

How often do you (un)willingly end up stalking someone? Out of habit! Something as simple as every time you open a networking site, you end up visiting a profile without even realizing. Or you hit the F5 key every 10 minutes! Or the moment you open your browser to type in Google.com, you end up typing a blog URL knowing well that there are no new updates!

Things that you know are stupid, but can’t resist yourself from doing. Not that you gain anything out of it, or you have the right to react to the information you gain from there, but still…

“We have grown up…from those days of first love, first crush, innocently following a girl, waiting for someone at the bus stop/ metro station” – is what a friend of mine had to say. That reminded me of a good old song – “Prothom prem’e porar por sobai postay…ei sohor jaane amar prothom sob kichu” (Everybody repents after falling in love for the first time…this city is a witness to all my firsts). I smiled.

And wondered – have we? Or have we just found a better way of hiding our childish self?

True…I miss those evenings when waiting at the balcony to catch a glimpse of my first crush was a Saturday evening ritual. Or an occasional glance made tuition's interesting. Or a look was all that I used to look for. But then, haven’t we grown up just to find ourselves a better way to stalk?

But one day if you find you can’t do the same any longer, what do you do? Smile at your childishness? Try to outgrow that habit? Or just wait for the unexplainable feeling to pass?

What???

P.S.: Title of this post is the outcome of a dinner table discussion. And we admire ourselves for having such discussions! – Another reason am reluctant to move out of Hyderabad!