'History Runs In Cycle'

                       
                                         

                              By Arjun Bhojane

              Today's world is the world of science and technology, now a day everything we do online we buy and sell things, do office work, home work even order the groceries and food also  just using the our fingers rather tapping our fingers on the smart phones. Do we really becoming a smart enough ?
            My grandfather who was almost in his 80's laughed at me while I was opening the lock of smart phone with thumb print.
He said, " Why are you showing thumb to your mobile?
Is it any paper or document ?"
Are you selling your phone to someone ?
I was confused, so I asked him,
" I don't understand grandpa "
           Then he explained me about thumb print.
In our time, when we want to sell a piece of land, house to someone we used to give thumb print on some paper. Then he asked me again , 'Why are you showing your thumb to your mobile?  As usual I answered,
 ' To open the lock'.
His funny reply to me, 'Was your phone illiterate to put on the thumb?
We both laughed.
           Door bell rang, I went to open the door, that's my mother returning from the office.
"Hello mother" I said.
"why it took time to open the door?" she asked.
'Oh! Mother', I was just talking to grandpa.
It's ok, then, she uttered.
Grandpa was watching the TV news, where he saw how a company manager cut the salary of staff for punching late on biometric machine in the office.
Then he asked to my mother, ' what is biomertic machine?'
              Mother narrated him, it's a machine where every employees must give their thumb print for attendance for the day.
"Thumb print !" grandpa asked surprisingly.
'Yes' said mother.
'They don't have office note book for attendance.'
'No' said mother.
It's 21st century everything is online now. Its paperless, cashless and faceless -Digital India.
             Grandfather curiously asked, 'But still you have to follow our old time method of 'Thumb' for doing work'. Even though you are well educated people.
I think grandpa's opinion partially true. And mother had no answer for him.
It's like new wine in old bottle. History repeats itself after sometime.
             Now a day new generation is using torn and worn out jeans under the name of fashion where it was old time in villages people  would use stitched clothes due to insufficient money.
            In the marriages now a day bridegroom wears   Kolhapuri Chappals,shoes, put on Dhoti and wrap 'Pheta' to the head as fashion and prestige. But all these things are the part and parcel of human history. Don't you think so?
Aren't we moving around the our history?
As the Sun revolves around the Earth.
           I remembered the lines of Irish poet W.B. Yeats of his poem. I quote
        "Turning and turning
           in a widening gyre
           The falcon cannot
           Hear the falconer"
                                  ('The Second Coming')
In the first two lines he asserted, history runs in cycles frequently in our life.
                       
                                                                   
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