Where is my Remote ?

Nothing controls your comforts like remote controls these days. Blame it on the increasing spate of micro chips in your house but I can bet there is still at least one remote in your house which you would have knowingly allowed to hide as you now fail to manage so many. Precisely… the problem of plenty!

Men love gadgets and this love breeds further gadgets like “remotes” which obviously empower your fingers to follow your brain but also increase your calorie count. Initially, we can blame the idiot box to make us try this unearthly pleasure but gradually all the gadget boxes have emulated the art. A living room, perhaps measuring a few square yards is understandably supplemented by couple of these small rectangles to make you smart couch potatoes but the bizarre hits you inside your car where we pay few bucks extra for that luxury in car music systems!

Defying any chances of increasing man’s physical agility we have become silent disciples of this wireless addiction. Watching a favorite movie on a home theatre makes you feel like a roadside cobbler sitting with at least three different colored remotes, each promising to give you an uninterrupted streaming with multiplex sound effects and then your air conditioner also donates one remote, generously for the show.Anyhow, we human beings are solution seekers and in such a scenario identify one member in the family to be the gadget man for such occasions and often our children love doing this. After all, it is an empowerment which matters and also helps the cause of the co audience.

If by this time you have started counting the number of remotes in your houses I am sure you have ignored the omnipresent human remote. It is called the mobile phone and we get goose bumps to imagine a day without it. Call it bigotry, but there is no doubt that we are slaves of this disguised remote. At the same time, it has changed the thought execution speed beyond any geographical confines. World’s most read book, called the “Phonebook” has instant resolution for your untimely quest for pizzas home delivery and the sms have gradually evolved to carry emotions also.

Gentlemen, I don’t want to sound regressive but those corporate honchos enjoying push and pull mails in their handsets are the latest victims to rediscover “Apples” and “Blackberries” in their cubicles. So if I imagine the farsightedness of the great Shakespeare I think he was bingo to predict:” All the world’s a stage and men and women merely players…..”

Now, let me discover some Einstein effect to develop one remote to control everything from a drone missile to country’s GDP, as it is our government and police is remote controlling their duties, this might help them too!! But, first let me switch on the heater to combat this freezing cold and the question is “where the hell is my remote?????”