Short to Shorter

For quite a while, I have been noticing something interesting. Day by day, things are getting shorter and shorter. Be they:

• The cycles of boom and bust.

• Interactions amongst human being (twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, the volumes of voice calls are dropping worldwide, etc).

• The sizes of products (vehicles, computers, handheld-devices, etc).

• The life cycles of products and services, as we seek for frequent changes and upgrades.

• Newspapers are getting reduced to, and sometimes even replaced by, blogs, tweets, buzz, et al.

• Peoples’ memories have remarkably been getting shorter and shorter. We just move on so easily and so quickly, shrugging things off as if they never happened, and saying C’est la vie – and it must move on! :-) Well, nothing is wrong with this philosophy! But, shouldn’t we try hard enough to shape it the way we want it to be? Could you vouch for your own answer? Really? :-) Liar!

• Commitments – be they to life, passion, jobs, responsibilities, tenacity, education, logic, humility, empathy, promise, austerity, allegiance, or love.

We are getting bored of things so easily that we continually seek for changes. How is this mindset going to affect our lives? Only time will tell. But, I can surely tell you one thing – there are things that when get shorter become better, but, then, there are other things that when get shorter become worse! So, watch out what you wish for, before you really wish for! :-)