If you are reading this in the morning, then please immediately get a broom and put this newsletter in trash. And while you are at it clean your bed as well. That three day old bhajiya is slowly turning into a live lizard.
But if you are reading it tonight, right after I pressed the sent button, ekdam garma garam, then you also get a broom and put this newsletter in trash. Why are you up reading this non sense? But since you are up, might as well finish it. So I had this thought today. Please bear with me as I try to explain this. So the thought was very simple. Yesterday, I uninstalled all social media apps from my phone. Naive me, I know. But I have lived one day without it and it felt normal except in the evening when I was shitting. So while shitting I generally see some reels or I tweet or I read or sometimes I even make a reel (it was a bad idea). My shit is very productive and I come out of the bathroom a learned man. Every single day the process of excretion makes me a better person. So today when I was shitting I was reading about Raja Raja Chola 1 and how he was great and all. Very nice read. But after I finished reading it, I didn’t know where to share. I was left dumbstruck with the realisation that I read such a great article for nothing as I couldn’t post a swipe up link or even tweet about it or put it in an Instagram group. So I just consumed the article, washed and came out of the bathroom a rather confused man. I roamed around for a bit utterly confused on what to do with this information. So then I told my mom about Raja raja chola and how he made this great monument and how he conquered and she nodded and asked if I want Raja Raja chhola sabzi tomorrow.
But it was off my chest at least even if my mom didn’t give two shits about my story. Which made me wonder - how did people use to live with important information trapped inside them without any device to share it. Didn’t they ever feel like showing off? Or were they too telling their moms the stories they learned in the great library of Pataliputra. Which further made me wonder if the habit of sharing good stuff good or bad? Is it a technological boon or bane? Because mostly whenever we talk about over sharing on social media, we talk in the negative context. But is it really negative if even one person opens it and reads it and then decides to do a PhD in Cholas or Pandyas? Maybe not. What do you think?
Anyway, so that’s what was keeping me up tonight. Sorry for wasting your time and also, by the way, I typed this whole thing on my phone because my laptop is fucked. And also by the way, instead of buying a new laptop I have bought an all in one desktop. Hopefully it will straighten my back. I think someday my back will make me quit writing. Which will be for the good, of course.
I am already regretting this. Should have kept this thought to myself. But this phone’s keyboard is so good. Yum. Mmm.
Looked you up everywhere and literally reading everything you ever wrote. Consider this comment as, me begging you to never stop writing. Oh, and I loved the ending of this newsletter a little too much. Maybe because I'm relating to this on a spiritual level. Hehe :D