Cyber space and disoriented me.


I've been itching to write this down(because one day I might come back and laugh at myself,as I always do), so here it goes.

I woke up one afternoon feeling disoriented as always(hey! Typical people are disoriented after they wake up okay. Don't judge me). I took a sneak peek at my insta account.. I had posted a picture (which graphically potrayed how Indian mums keep feeding their kids and how karma eventually catches up and we get to feed them in turn, basically give them a dose of their same medicine. If you're an Indian kid, you'll get what I mean. If you don't, it's basically the endless nagging to eat. My consultant called it the Indian mum mentality of overfeeding kids.) One of my messages showed me a message from a person named mel.

Being the disoriented person I was, the first person who came to my mind was my friend mirdula from childhood (don't ask me why). Something at the back of my mind told me mel and mirdula weren't related but I went ahead and continued the conversation.

So it went like
Mel(replying to my status): 😂
Me: I swear
Mel: but you look perfect tho
My mind voice: Mel's so perfect too🥺 she's adorable
Me: As iff.. da dei,  we eventually develop some mechanism to get away from all that nagging.
Mel: Are you nursing or mbbs?

This is where it hit me. My friend from school obviously knew I was studying to be a doctor. I freaked out. I searched the account of this person and realised I definitely didn't know the person. I hastily apologized for the inconvenience explaining the case of mistaken identity. This person futher went on to laugh it off and continued the conversation. Me being me, obviously feeling stupid about the whole episode logged off and blocked him( I'm super sorry if you ever read this mel).

Obviously it was my fault and I made it a point that day to check all my friends on Instagram. I made sure I knew them from school or from college. I made very few exceptions this time(my insta account always has room for meme pages and news and photography pages). 

After that I stopped to think.Mel did not correspond to mirdula. We used to call her meedu. Then who was my mind thinking of?I realized then it was my junior from church. I ended up telling the real mel about what happened and fellow laughed his heart out(I'm pretty sure).

In this age wherin cyber crimes run rampant, I find myself paranoid about who I share my virtual life with. To me, it's mostly a form of communication to keep in contact especially now with all the social distancing.This was one time I ended up laughing at my own stupidity and the ironic statement that the guy actually thought of me as perfect made it all the more funny. But to all the guy friends I have, "err on the side of caution"  and don't compliment a girl online if you haven't met them face to face or conversed with before, as it might come off as creepy. I guess this opinion sides with the majority (hopefully). But at the end of the day, I had a good laugh and ended up reconnecting with old friends and keeping a firm check on whom I keep in touch with. To all my girls, stay safe, be sane(unlike me). 

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