What If?

Ignorance is bliss! Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is bliss?
What if the most momentous occasion of your life has passed and you don't know about it? What if all your dreams have come true but are yet to announce themselves to you? What if everything you wish for has happened but the universe has conspired to keep you in the dark?
What if deep in the pile of your unopened letters is an acceptance letter for your dream job that you applied for a year ago and thought you'd never get? What if your spam inbox conceals from you the marriage proposal  the love of your life so nervously mailed to you? What if one of the five messages on your phone that you so tiredly dismissed after a long day at work is your father telling you your mother is no more?

What if one fine morning, your daughter messages you, curtly informing you about her marriage? And your other daughter from across the world sends you an email, that she has gotten her dream project, she will be staying there for the rest of her life?

In every line of communication from another human-being, an acquaintance, a friend, an enemy or a sibling, lies a deeper meaning. Lies a contextual meaning. Lies a spiritual meaning. In each word lies a blatant truth that mysteriously eludes your mind. Each sentence conceals a paragraph. In each correspondence, there lies a secret, a personality, a plea, an aura, a spirit, a life and a whole world.

Communication is the most vital human attribute, and it's severe, excess digitization leads to a trivialisation  of human contact. The worst curse the era of "increased communication". Anything in excess leads to trivialisation, but it is our duty to look unto every word, every sentence, expressed by a fellow human-being.

It is never "just another status update", it is words wished to be communicated by a human. Look into it, and you will find meaning. Not yet another message, it could just be a plea. It could just be a wish for comfort.

So, I silently say, "RIP" to the telegram, Few words that never failed to be noticed, a few words that always proved momentous. News that made the difference. That gave us knowledge. Knowledge that immediately gave us a wide range of emotions, but knowledge that eventually gave us peace and solace with ourselves.

Knowledge that gave us bliss.
Knowledge of the ignorance up until then.
A bliss far truer than the ignorance of knowledge.