Password

When I heard this word for the first time in my life, in my childhood, off course, never did I realize the hidden importance and chain reaction my life was being lead to in future. It was dad’s suitcase lock which introduced us to this enigmatic world of passwords, a pure play at that time and was only used to challenge the neighbor kids and cousins.

Slowly and subtly as we grew up and technology started being second most important thing in life after matriculation and graduation, life developed early signs of attracting passwords. It was still easy to combat the increasing onslaught of the passwords a few years ago: different email accounts with chat messenger passwords wishfully created to flash the world know my cyber status.

As weapons of mass destruction disappeared in front of federal forces they conspired collectively to give mankind their manifestation in all possible forms . And the menace is growing faster than you can track them,now in your pocket books or fancy notebooks too. Today, my worst fears is not falling from the Mount Everest or airplane window but losing that small diary which is a gateway for every service I avail as a rightful owner of an exclusively. They come in different names and username combos: may be customer ID, T PIN, secret question, answer to the secret question, internet transaction PIN, credit card pin, debit card pin, dish TV ID and the list goes on…

If jotting down these alphanumeric dragons at a single place was an end solution for lifetime then one would have still trapped the bludgeoning identification numbers and passwords you require to prove a single identity but these soft WMDs dessert you if you don’t tinkle them for long, they need to be in touch with you and miss you before you miss them finally! Probably sharing the passwords with all friends might help to rescue the RECALL when needed actually and then you see the intrinsic idea of such complex existence is questionable.

As I was writting this page and took a bio break, I had to toggle hard with my laptop to make him recall the familiarity quotient which suddenly disappeared as my wife just changed the SYSTEM PASWORD!!

So that adds for an extra line of passwords wherever I can write , may be GHAJNI was also right!!