Thursday, 4 February 2016

How did I stopped caring and started loving "Bias" part-1

Due to my limited exposure to opinion of others,it was really a "culture shock" for me when I encountered myriads  of them  in my initials years of stay in the cyberspace.

Prior to that,life used to very simple (for me). Being youngest in the family,it was me who was always ordered around and had to listen the elders.While beneficiary for being a child who all had to do was to follow their order so you remain a "Good Kid" before their eyes, it proved very detrimental in years to come,which eventually caused the downward spiral in which I am struck even at this very  moment I am writing these words (which,some of you kind souls might have read so far).

A bit of a context - this happened around the time when the results of 10th board exams were out.. My score was among the nineties percentage gainers.Time has come for choosing school for higher secondary education since the previous was up to 10th grade only. This was the time where the perception I had in my life for kindergarten to till that point were shattered completely.I needed something to rebuild it,some role-model who will allow me to justify my decisions and action in life.

It was also the time around our house got an internet connection.Elder cousin had already taught the ways of the internet and Orkut- the hot social networking site of the day.Now, I had the power to access it and lurk around aimlessly for get hooked on something. I wasn't a fan of anything ever, so I end up joining the group based around the city near to the rural area I reside. Seeing topics with thousands of comments and members talking to each other like close friends awoken the deep sited yearnings to be like that, and I became a attention seeker. Without having the knowledge of  the common etiquette of introduction and taking part in group chat  ,I end up creating mess just to have some reaction of them toward me,which culminated into my first ever "ban " from the group in the series of two bans that would deeply affect my net-sphere psyche. Apart from that,I was used to search various anime and manga like Naruto or Once Piece as both used to air on Cartoon Network years ago.This combined with exposure to animax during my channel surfing in one of elder cousin's house and an anime t-shirt in one of my 11th grade coaching will lead to one curious search that will be introduction to the world of online (and illegal) manga sites , which will finally distract my attention from studies and finally derail my course thanks to hubris and ignorance. Maybe my mom was right, I shouldn't interact with bad kids and everyone is a bad kid,specially on internet.

(continued  in part-2)

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