Offline : A day without internet

I woke up at 6 P.M. as usual, looked at my phone and as, usual it was already 8:00 and I needed to leave for work. Of course, I had missed my morning workout and when had I not. The snooze button has really counteracted with the meaning of alarm. I was late, without breakfast and shower I rushed towards the car with tie half- tucked and shoes in my hand. But as I entered the car and switched on my phone something unusual happened, my google map didn't work. I thought my phone had some issues with the network and so I continued. I knew the road to my office but didn't have google to confirm whether or not the road had any traffic.

                             I drove on my own and saw a lot more than a usual number of people on the road. Most looked and angry, most looked frustrated and most looked at the road while walking. It was amazing to see so many people with not a single person with their I-phones on hand. I was confused and so I turned on the radio.

                                                                                                       It's unbelievable the man on the radio said. He went on saying that the internet had been down for hours and that the world governments had not been able to find the root of the problem.  

                                                                                                                                             I looked outside and said to myself  "Man the world actually seems quite normal for the world without the web". Of course, my office was facing quite a lot of problems as the were unable to communicate with the head office and so they declared it a holiday. Good News for me, but there was a problem. " What was I going to do?", I said to myself. It wasn't like I could just go home and binge watch another show, nooo the internet was down. So, I finally decided to go to a hill site. I was looking outside the entire way and people were losing shit. Man like, people were protesting in streets, radio and tv were just shouting and all the things, people would expect but the world was still working. 

                                                           I reached this park outside and there were no people there. No one could google that place and so no one was there. Just for today but that place was mine and this is what information does to us, there is no secrecy in the world. I sat on there on the hillside and suddenly I heard a noise. A sound of a bicycle pulling up and then I looked at it and it was a girl, a 14-year-old who young girl. She parked her bike and came up to me sat beside me and said to me "You heard the internet is down." 

                                                                                                        And, I noded. It felt awkward, not because I was sitting on a hillside looking at a city along with a 14-year-old talking about the world going crazy, no.. no man.. no  it was because I had not talked to a stranger physically for years. Looking at F.B. in the elevator was so much more easy than talking to a person. But that day I didn't have that Facebook to look at and so I had a conversation with her. A physical, real communication. 

                                                       What next you ask, nothing  I didn't send a request to that girl on f.b, Nah! I just went home and continued like I had but I had a connection with her, a connection with that girl. A connection different from the one I have with my f.b friend. And I want to tell you, "Yes, the Internet is awesome but we need to understand the importance of physical connection and that's what I learned from being offline for a day"