Time to move!!!

“This is the last boarding call for the passengers of Indigo flight 6177 to Bangalore.” The announcement kept playing in the background as I was sitting staring at the boarding pass in my hand.

“This is it then?’ I asked myself. “So another phase of life comes to an end?”

I still don’t know why but I was unable to get up and leave. It was not like I have not moved or shifted before. I have moved countries, but this was different. I don’t know why I just did not want to leave Mumbai.

My train of thoughts were interrupted by a tap on shoulder. It was an Indigo staff looking at me, I could see she was asking me, but I could only see, It was like everything else around was on mute.  As if my mind was telling me to consider the next step one last time.

I pulled myself out from my thoughts “Sir, are you traveling on Indigo flight 6177 to Bangalore”

I nodded in agreement that I was travelling on same flight.

I boarded the flight and settled in my seat. It was raining since morning that day. I felt like city was also sad as I was moving out.

I looked out from the window, water droplets were sliding down the window. A tear managed to break through the walls, my eyes were moist now.

I whispered bye to the city that gave me a lot and closed my eyes for a new beginning.

Rishtaa!!!

https://youtu.be/cVpHrJjx46s

Return of Radhika...!

“Finally, Mr. Big Shot found time to speak with me!” exclaimed Radhika.

I smiled keeping quiet as I had expected something like that.

“Don’t smile Mister, look at me you moron. Thoda bhi yaad nahi aaye hum? (did u even remember us a little)

I kept smiling. She had turned chubby, but still looked angelic, the way she used to be. Even on a video call, her smile made my heart skip a beat.

“I was busy re, just could not manage my time” I gave an excuse.

“You could not make time, the person who multi tasks every moment, like doing now….” She replied

“Now? Right now I am only talking to you. Why did you say that?” I tried to hide my amazement.

I was multitasking as usual. While I was on video call with her, I was also updating some sales report on my system. She could still see thru me like always.

“I know bass!” she replied

“3 years now, since we met but still she gets through me. Damn it!” I thought.

“By the way, you are fat now.” I teased her trying to change topic.

“Hello mister, it is not fat you know.” She screamed.

Yes she was not fat, our Radhs is going to be a mother and that is why out of blue, I called her. She had messaged me about the news and was complaining that how she was missing her friend.

“Hahaha! Well that can’t be a reason, you are not 9 months yet” I teased her.

“I will kill you when we meet.” She laughed.

We both laughed for a while as we spoke and ended the conversation.

As she was disconnecting, she said “you know what, during this period mother should stay happy. So you dare vanish again.” I think she knew saying it will work. For her happiness I will do anything.

For a moment after the call, I sat silent in my room rerunning the conversation bit by bit. I had not laughed like that in recent past. Why? I did not know, but I have made my mind, to be around till I can.

AI - Artificial Intelligence

Last week I was reading a book with subject about Science and religion. It touched some questions of where we “HUMANS” came from and where are “WE” heading?  A question, almost all of us would have wondered about in some point of our lives.

As I continued reading, I really got intrigued about the fact that how we are evolving at every step of life. Although we all have read or learnt about Darwins theory of Evolution, we never realize that it is a continuous process. And you and me, yes you and me are also part of this process.

As we are evolving as homo-sapiens, same time there is a new species of beings that are getting evolved in our world. And slowly we are being consumed by these species and we are turning into slaves to these species. It is no brainer that I am talking about Artificial Intelligence as the subject mentions it at subject line of this post. But how is this artificial intelligence taking over? Because technology is in our control.. Right?

I will tell why I wrote about it today…

In morning I was texting to a friend. Yesterday my phone fell and since then my phone has been acting funny. I realized that touch has gone very sensitive and when I touch one word to type, it was selecting 2-3 words surrounding that word. This was making texting difficult, so I started using suggestions shared by the google keyboard.

To my surprise, the words suggested are exactly what I generally use texting as per the person I am sending the message to.

For example, when I typed “I will go on.. “ suggestions were “the / a / Bike”. I was wondering why did it not offer me suggestions “car / bike / cycle”.

It is because I generally write that I go on bike, which is stored in its data as per my communication.

Well then I tried different combination which I generally use, my device suggested exactly what I would have written. However, when I inserted messages which I wrote first time or used word which I generally do not use, it suggested generic words.

It dawned to me that AI is not something which is coming in near future like we read in newspaper. Artificial Intelligence is there in our lives already. It is slowly evolving at every point, looking at us, learning about us and upgrading itself with each moment. World what we see today is believed to be result of millions of years evolution. But with time, even machines are evolving and slowly consuming us, making us crippled without them.

And there will be a day when we will reach a point that AI will be superior and our species will extinct. It will be like how speak about Neanderthals, 50 years down the line the future human machine will talk about us homo sapiens.

Ironic but true!!!

Sunshine after Rains..

Everytime it rains, it brings along a different feelings inside me. And lately Mumbai has witnessed some heavy and unexpected showers.

Every single shower fills me with a feeling of breaking free. Life has been tough lately and to be true it has been stressful both on personal and professional front.

At some point i feel like giving it up. And then it rains. Looking at raindrops falling i feel that its just for sometime. there will be sun coming up after this.

It reminds me of the days when i was a child. During those days if it rained abruptly and i was caught in rain unprepared, all i used to do was just have fun in that rain. So why not now. All i need to do is enjoy the rain till the time its sunshine again.

Till the time its like the song..

Raindrops falling on my head... 

https://youtu.be/OT1HCQcSHW0