Cry My Eyes!

A Sunday evening, I was relaxing in my balcony.  I heard a feeble voice, ‘Hello, can you hear us?’ I looked around. There was nobody.  I slipped back to my chair.  I heard the voice again.

‘Hey please listen to us’

‘Who?’

‘Your eyes’

‘My eyes?’

‘Yes, your eyes. We want to tell you something’

‘Yes, please go ahead’

We want to share our life with you.  We were very happy and comfortable during your childhood.  You know, we help human beings to see the objects around them and to read.  We were happily doing this duty till you were 14.  That is when our first enemy came to your house – the television.  You stopped reading and started watching TV in the evenings.  Do you know that the bright screen of TV causes lot of strain to us?  To make things worse, you switched off the lights in the room while watching TV.  We somehow managed because you were watching TV only in the evenings and on holidays. During the daytime we used to enjoy helping you see what was happening around and read books, papers etc. 

When you completed your college and started working, our second enemy entered your life – the computer.  Computer screen was smaller than the TV screen and was positioned much closer to your face.  This caused us lot of strain.  At times, we used to turn red due to over-working.  Though it was putting lot of pressure on us, we were at least happy that when you were not at the office or at home, like when you were travelling or attending some functions etc., we could relax. 

Few years later, you brought the latest and our deadliest enemy into your life – the smart phone.  All hell broke loose.  The screen was much smaller than that of a computer.  You always kept staring at the phone, you started reading news, watching TV, watching movies, chatting with friends, attending meetings, reading assignments of your students, sharing pictures, monitoring time – almost everything on phone!  Added to this, even at bed you keep using the phone and your sleeping pattern became bizarre.  Whether you are in the office, or at home, or travelling, or attending functions, or doing anything else, you are always staring at the phone.  Can you imagine what we are going through!  It is beyond what we can take.

Unlike your nose and ears, you can instantly close us anytime and give us some rest.  But why are you torturing us so much?  Please keep the phone away for some time, please sleep on time and sleep well.  If we are not healthy, how can we perform our function?  When you feel sad, you cry through us.  When we are sad, what should we do?

I was stunned.  I couldn’t speak.  After taking a pause, my eyes continued, ‘We know what is going on in your mind now.  You are planning to write this in your blog and give strain to the eyes of your friends, who would read your blog on their phones’!!