I was traveling by train to my hometown couple of days back. It was an overnight journey. Around 1.30 AM when everyone was in deep sleep all of a sudden there was a loud cry.  A 3 to 4 year old kid suddenly got up and started crying.  It was a loud cry and soon lot of people in my coach got up including me. The boy wanted a ball and he wanted it at that moment. The kid’s parents tried their best to console him saying they would get him once they reached home but it didn’t stop him from crying. The kid’s mom carried him and took him near the door in that coach. Couple of things happened when this was taking place.  Few of them were unperturbed even to the millimeter and were sleeping with loud snores almost equaling the shrieking kid’s cry. Second, the kid’s cry woke up few more kids and it started a chain reaction and these kids started crying.  The parents of the kid somehow managed to control him by offering him a toffee. When everything seemed to quite down, the mother of another kid who had woke up had took a wrong path to put her kid again to sleep. She was saying to her kid that once they reach the kid’s cousin’s house she could play with her cousin with ball-catch game. That’s it, as soon the first kid heard the word ball again he started again.  To top it all for some reason the train had stopped completely in a no man’s land when all this was happening and didn’t start until 45 minutes later.

I was thinking how many images and information I could get on a ball with a connection to internet but I may not be able to get something like a real ball whenever I wanted. In fact I was little wrong as I tried to search for a ball (in the safe search mode of course )in Google Images I didn’t get a proper image of a ball in the first page. Even in Flickr I didn’t get a relevant result. That time of the night I was put into a thinking mode that there are certain situations in life that technology might never overtake and only a human touch or act can only help. I hope I don’t go wrong.

Happy Weekend!