AN ALL NEW AGE RECKONER - 289

     AN ALL NEW AGE RECKONER     

Over the years practices ,habits , rituals and appliances have  given way to a new set of activities by which we go about leading our lives .

Some have outlived their usefulness , some have seen the more modern version of the application taking root while most have lost out because of our own preferred choices .

Listed below are a few of the items which come to mind immediately . I will with a fair degree of certainty reckon that anyone who is even faintly aware or heard  of any of the 5 or less the practices or  items listed below is sure to be  born in the new Millennium. Others must be  in the varied degrees of vintage . One year for sure to be added to 30 + for each item still followed. Your Biological age may be totally different from your chronological age based on how and what you think .

1) Do you use a Fountain Pen or have atleast heard of it as  a writing instruement 

2) Do you still use a Ball Point Pen 

3) Do you still use a bicycle to move about  (School going children to skip this question)

4 ) When was the last time you wrote a letter by hand and  putting pen to paper . 

5) When was the last time you had your lunch or dinner in your home while being seated on the floor .

6) When did you last drink water from a tap using your cupped hands .

7) When was the last time you used a Transistor or Radio .

8) When was the last time you dialled a number on a conventional Telephone .

9)When was the last time  you Travelled in an Express/Mail Train without prior reservations .

10 ) How long was it when you chose not to dye your hair ( persons aged below 35 to pass this question ) 

11) When did you start wearing unironed shirts or trousers or better still start wearing unpolished shoes .

12 ) When did you start loving your Tea/Coffee without sugar in it .

13) When did you change over from Tooth Powder to Tooth Paste or from using your Index Finger to a Tooth Brush while cleaning your Teeth .

14) When was it the last time that you used an Indian Toilet .

15 ) When was it the last time you also took part in a game of cricket played by school children in front of your house .

16) When is it the last time you murmured a song  to your self or enjoyed whistling one .

17 ) When was it the last time you laughed out loudly while looking at a comic scene on the TV .

18 ) When did you start preferring Comedies to Serials or Movies on the TV .

19) When did YOU start realizing that even YOU could sometimes be TOTALLY WRONG .

20 ) When was it the last time you sat and prayed in the SWAMY ROOM .

I GUESS IN THE END THERE IS NO BETTER AGE READY RECKONER THAN YOU YOURSELF.  YOU ARE ONLY AS OLD OR AS YOUNG AS YOU THINK YOURSELF TO BE AND NOTHING IS EVER GOING TO CHANGE THAT.