KIT syndrome

Hi there,

This is my first tryst in writing a blog. To be frank, I've only daydreamt of writing a diary - never intended to write it though. I felt, it was only for the boring, reclusive and snobby ones. Alright, I changed my opinion now. So, "swalpa adjust madi". :)

Since a pretty long time, this is one of the topics that I wanted to delve on - KIT syndrome. Well, what am I talking about? Read on...

They say - "Man is a social animal". Does it make it sound like - a woman is a social beast or creature too? Well, I don't know. Every person wants his/her friends to keep in touch(KIT). KIT syndrome is something that has a few salient characteristics - it is complex, global, it is one-way, failure in the recognition software of the brain, ever changing, etc. ("etc" is a wonderful word coined by the linguists. Use it when you are struggling for words).

Complex
How life takes turns, twists, & again U-turns & untwists - one never knows. A few persons have become marketing gurus, a few code gurus, a few real gurus. Can you believe that? Won't it sound weird when - Guru has a guru, whose name is again Guru. :)

Global
"Globalisation" appears to be a word that could be used globally, without even bothering to know if it really suits the topic. So, the same applies here. KIT syndrome happens to a lot of people. I've seen it happen to people who have moved to other countries. Therefore, it only makes sense to call it global - whichever way you wanna take it.

1-way
It's not only the Bangalore/Bengaluru traffic that's one-way. One of the salient characteristics of KIT is it's quite often one-way. Believe it or not, friends wants me to keep in touch with them, while they seem to forget that they also need to keep in touch with me. How does one reach from "breaking the ice" to "breaking the head" to KIT or not to KIT? No one knows.

Recognition software fails
There are lot of changes in the GUI(read as appearances) of most people. One wouldn't recognize people after they got their tummies pumped up, hair lines receding , pompous attitudes, blah-blah. Most guys(girls too) are too busy to even send a silly mail. This results in the software(brain) removing the LRU (Least Recently Used) entries from it's database. New friends keep adding, while the old ones reduce KIT. I wonder how long this phenomena can continue. Maybe till one hits Alzheimer or just pretend to have one when some acquaintance turns up.

Every changing and evolving
I always wonder how quickly things keep changing. Off late, they seem to be changing at a very rapid rate. We've social networking sites like orkut/facebook, to professional networking sites like linkedin/brijj. Where is this taking us? We use cell phone more often than we use the landlines. Calls reduced and turned to quickie messages like SMS.

As usual, I like to summarize. If you see another symptom of the KIT syndrome, take a chill pill. It's just the usual, normal stuff.

Well, let me stop here lest it becomes draggy.

Whew! The "rhymie roomy" says - With the blog, it was my first rendezvous; Only now is it open for review.