AN ALL NEW - AGE RECKONER - 654

 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 while  some have seen the more modern version of the application taking their places . Most seem to have also  lost out because of our own change in the  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 not even faintly aware or heard  of any of the  FIVE  items listed below are sure to be  born in the new Millennium. Others I am sure are  in the varied degree of vintage .  Your Biological age might  be totally different from your chronological age based on how and what you think of the items below .

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

2) Are in the habit of using  a Ball Point Pen .

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

4 ) When was the last time you wrote a letter by hand and  put a 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 making  prior reservations .

10 ) How long was it when you chose not to dye your hair (those aged below 35 can 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 that  you also took part in a game of cricket played by the school going children in front of your house .

16) When is it the last time that 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 of your house without your Mum or Wife asking  you to do it .

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