Ringing Long Distance Relationship !

• by Ranadip Pathak
  
  Gone are the days when people used to convey their messages through messengers. There was a time when pigeons were happened to be the envoy of love and affection between people. Letters written with someone’s own handwriting filled with the sense of real care were regarded as the valuable personal asset. It was a normal scene where we see people used to gather around postman coming to the village to deliver letters.
  
  This is ‘the’ 21st century. The time is to move fast and fast. People are now a days running like mad after materialistic success. In the name of achieving success we have entered into an undeclared rat race. However, we are living behind some priceless assets like love, emotion, friendship and so on.
  
  A small electronic device having the capability to send and receive magnetic waves has become the connecting medium between relationships. Mobile phone is the equipment which has become inseparable part of our life.
  
  Internet, which can be regarded as the most significant discovery for mankind in modern era has become the most important medium of communication among people across the globe. Today internet is flooded with many services provided by various service providers. Email and Social networking sites are happened to be most frequently used medium. Social networking sites like Orkut , Facebook, Tweeter and so on have spread a drugs like effect on the youths now a days. Arrivals of internet cafes have helped youngsters of our day, making online friends not only with the known one but also with the unknown ones.
  
  However, the question arises today is whether these modern modes of communication are helpful enough to maintain long distance relationship or not?
  
  People may respond differently on the same question. Nevertheless, if we really try to analyze the present health of our society, then we can witness most of the people being the victim of the very useful modern modes of communication.The success of a long-distance relationship gets a toll on the mostly used idioms like “absence makes the heart grow fonder” or “out of sight, out of mind”.
  
  In the days of letters too, long distance relationship did exist. However, faith was the one aspect that bound people those days. With the easy accessibility of modern gadgets, guys and gals want to stay connected throughout all possible moments. As a result, tensions build up which has an inevitable impacts on the relationship. Your dear one is away from you and you are trying to make her a call, you find her phone busy and that’s what leads you to think in a different way.
  
  Seeing two sides of everything, communication can be considered to have both positive and negative sides. But looking at the benefits it has provided, negative impact of it is almost negligible. Anyway, it has become impossible to live life in today’s world avoiding new gadgets, but we should not let letters to pass away. Otherwise days are near when we will have to call for a ‘letters day’ to celebrate to renew our long distance relationship.