I was going through my Facebook news feed and came across a certain status update by someone in my friends list. What was so special about that update? Well it gave me an idea for today’s post, which is public display of affection. Now PDA has been a huge part of these social networking sites pretty much since its evolution. And I’m not confining to social networking only. I’m gonna go on the limb and take the liberty to explore this social “norm” outside the digital world as well. I’m not the person who hates the idea of displaying rather expressing one’s feelings to the other. In fact I’m pretty much an extrovert. But what bothers me rather infuriates me is the uncanny, unnecessary show off of people’s love to the world.
Let’s start with the social networking sites like fb. I have been inauspicious enough to have witnessed many such examples. The moment someone gets committed or engaged they start sharing cheesy song lyrics and poetry, telling the world how within few days they’re so deep in shit (or love) that they can see stars in the day light, roaming around with a gooey smile on their goofy faces. How they feel the need to tell that significant other that they miss them more than a fat kid misses a Burger King, and that too via their status update. So what if that “significant other” has his/her own personal cell phone. Simple text that tells them that you miss them wouldn’t do any good as the world wouldn’t know the depth of your love. Then those conversations on any thread with that significant other of yours, using the encoded language so the world wouldn’t know what you two have been talking about but enough to reveal that you two mutton heads have been pouring your undying love for each other over a sodding social networking site for the whole sodding world to read. I feel this strong urge to write under such conversation to go get a room you two. Why the hell would the world be interested in knowing that your boyfriend is so damn caring that he gets all jittery if you sneeze more than thrice in a row. Or your girlfriend/fiancée/wife skips her lunch too just because you didn’t get time to eat yours. Retards!!
Now coming outside the digital world and into the real world. I have been really doomed as I have seen and known in fact still know people who take PDA as their hobby. I know couples who would eat in the same plate over a formal dinner just to let the world know that their love is strong and unbreakable. And yes since their love is so resilient it is imperative for you to witness it! I hate it when I have to play host to such couples. God knows how I refrain myself by telling them that they can have their own separate plates, I won’t mind washing one extra dish. This is just one tiny example of PDA in real life that I have witnessed, rest I can’t even bring myself to mention.
If only I could understand why in the hell do people think that it’s totally cool if they pour out their feelings for the bystanders to comment on, which should be confined between two entities. Only if those so in love morons would comprehend that the rest of the world is least interested in knowing the depth of their unbreakable bound. Perhaps then they would save the effort and spare us with the cheesy torture.
In the nutshell, if you’re big on public display of affection, beware, I’m big on public display of animosity!
Let’s start with the social networking sites like fb. I have been inauspicious enough to have witnessed many such examples. The moment someone gets committed or engaged they start sharing cheesy song lyrics and poetry, telling the world how within few days they’re so deep in shit (or love) that they can see stars in the day light, roaming around with a gooey smile on their goofy faces. How they feel the need to tell that significant other that they miss them more than a fat kid misses a Burger King, and that too via their status update. So what if that “significant other” has his/her own personal cell phone. Simple text that tells them that you miss them wouldn’t do any good as the world wouldn’t know the depth of your love. Then those conversations on any thread with that significant other of yours, using the encoded language so the world wouldn’t know what you two have been talking about but enough to reveal that you two mutton heads have been pouring your undying love for each other over a sodding social networking site for the whole sodding world to read. I feel this strong urge to write under such conversation to go get a room you two. Why the hell would the world be interested in knowing that your boyfriend is so damn caring that he gets all jittery if you sneeze more than thrice in a row. Or your girlfriend/fiancée/wife skips her lunch too just because you didn’t get time to eat yours. Retards!!
Now coming outside the digital world and into the real world. I have been really doomed as I have seen and known in fact still know people who take PDA as their hobby. I know couples who would eat in the same plate over a formal dinner just to let the world know that their love is strong and unbreakable. And yes since their love is so resilient it is imperative for you to witness it! I hate it when I have to play host to such couples. God knows how I refrain myself by telling them that they can have their own separate plates, I won’t mind washing one extra dish. This is just one tiny example of PDA in real life that I have witnessed, rest I can’t even bring myself to mention.
If only I could understand why in the hell do people think that it’s totally cool if they pour out their feelings for the bystanders to comment on, which should be confined between two entities. Only if those so in love morons would comprehend that the rest of the world is least interested in knowing the depth of their unbreakable bound. Perhaps then they would save the effort and spare us with the cheesy torture.
In the nutshell, if you’re big on public display of affection, beware, I’m big on public display of animosity!
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