Sunday, July 08, 2012

Dead Spaces

Am living in ancient times. When i try thinking of the stories associated with my present dwelling - of what I should call this door-equipped stack of concrete blocks - to induce some nostalgia about the lives in 'those old days', I come to the conclusion that things weren't any different. We are/I am still living the lives of 1980s. Technology is absent in the spaces we occupy.

We pull on an iron grating to make way for us to enter into a narrow hollow concrete block, then into another larger concrete hollow. These hollows are coated with cement and a layer of paint, and constitute a "room" - though the paint doesn't ruin our clothes or peel off so soon these days. There's also a standard cot to lie on, standard mattresses, standard bedsheet, standard pillows. A standard study table, complemented with a standard wooden chair, and a standard 4-level bookrack in its adjacency (the modest elegance of these wooden articles feel alien to the room, though).

We don't interact much with our spaces. We don't utilize them for anything beyond the traditional (almost primitive) use for security and shelter. How long will this continue?

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