Being YOUR (SELF) Online

Gaurav Ojha

How do you hang?
On the walls of social networking sites
Scrolling up and down on the screen
Click on
Wait for something viral to surface
Or else get easily bored
Go on; express your prejudices
Create a life story for faceless friends
Feel sorry for them in your status
What optimism, with a single post
Everybody believes they can change the world

Yes, your pieces of life are shared entity now
Your degrees, work, children, celebrations, achievements
Do they become futile if not shared?
What is the worth of being alive?
You measure it up with likes, shares, views and comments

Being Yourself Online
You are the painter without colors and brush
Actor without a director and a script
Opinion Maker without study
Involved without association
A Friend without friendship
You are concerned without care
A Poet without Metaphors and Allegories

You can hide from everything else you show
It’s like the difference between a marriage picture and domestic violence
No one sees the blur between reality and appearance
Let them dance on your shadows
And, so much for the warm-less memories you have created online
They don’t give your reminiscence for lonely days

But go on, can you resist the deception of it?
Stand alone with your Selfie
You are all for others, now
Nothing about yourself
Don’t make them impatient
Jump on your live-stream
You are what they see from you

Gaurav Ojha has engaged as a faculty and department head of communication, critical thinking, business research, marketing and marketing research in different educational institutions. As a part of his creative interests, Mr. Ojha has regularly published opinion posts, poems and articles on a wide range of topics from death, disease, social issues, and humanism to post-religious spirituality.