WRITTEN FOR FRIDAY FICTIONEERS
PHOTO PROMPT © Susan Eames
AHOY! AHOY!
By Neel Anil Panicker
Abdulakutty, like a true blue millennial, had embraced technology as if it were his first born.
At any hour of the day, and long into the night he’d be found caressing his beloved Samsung J7, a ‘gift’ from his father for securing ‘Pass’ marks in his Matriculation examinations.
Ever since, the teenager had become a near recluse, either closeted inside his room, or atop a coconut tree, one hand holding onto dear life while the other stabbing one key after another, bringing to alive myriad images in his mind’s eye, mostly of nubile nymphets from far corners of the globe.
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A technology that links you to the entire world. And technology users who deploy it for just one thing. Well captured, Neel
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Technology could be bane or boon dwpending on how one uses it. Thanks Neil
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Afraid this is the view most will have of the world, instead of looking up and seeing the world (and people) that are right in front of them!
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That’s the flip side of technology. The bane. And the way the world is going, it seems to outweigh all the boons.
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Dear Neel,
I just returned from Israel. I’m not sure any part of the world can beat them for cell phone attachment. Well done, sir.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I am inclined to believe you, dear Rochelle. Thanks.
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I’m guessing our minds entered the same zone again only your story is more elegantly written. Great stuff, Neel. I chuckled.
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I am inclined to believe you, dear Rochelle. Thanks.
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Each to his own, I guess. 🙂
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I guess so. Thanks Sandra
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I enjoyed the way you told this story. Writing that Abdulakutty “caressed” his Samsung J7 is a nice foreshadowing of the use to which he puts it. And “true blue millennial” is a phrase that sticks in the mind.
Still, although he may be glued to the screen for a while, I’m sure the charms of real girls will soon tempt him away from it!
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Thanks Penny. I fervently that be the case and he gets down from high horse oops tree, and gets a taste of real world charms that await him.
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Technology that isolates yet connects.
True story of many youth…
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Technology, that great paradox as well as the leveller.
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Yes, I’ve now seen this technology in the far flung corners of the globe. Nicely done, Neel.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Very true. And thanks Susan
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It depends on how an individual uses the technology. Abdulakutty isn’t a wise person.
https://ideasolsi65.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-cellphone.html
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That’s what it looks like. Thanks Kalps
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Seeing the world on a screen. A sad comment on today’s obsession with little phones.
My go at Friday Fictioneers!
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How tragically true!
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One of your best this year, Neel!
You totally captured today’s rapture with the cell phone.
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Thanks so much, Dale
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Ah yes, so many kids–and adults–would rather leave the house naked if they can’t have their cell phones. Great job of depicting this addiction 🙂
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True, they are married to their cellphones.
Thanks a lot.
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Whether in a tree, holding on with one hand and scrolling the screen with the other, phones are an addiction. Whenever I ride the train here in Hong Kong, the upside to the overuse of phones is the absolute quiet. No one is talking, they are too busy looking at their screens. Well written, Neel!
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And so it goes. We can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
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A smartphone can do that to you.
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Unless he spends more time on education and a job his father will wonder what the problem is and not be happy if he finds out. A good story and well written, Neel. 🙂 —- Suzanne
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Only porn eh… FFS! Probably entirely true too despite passing his matriculation examinations (my Grandpa used that phrase decades ago!)
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I love the image of the teen hanging on for dear life while surveying those nubile nymphets! Soon we will have to put up posters: no cell phone use, while tree climbing. At least the coconuts are safe!
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Abdulakutty is a lost cause, I fear. What a battle it is to keep the young connected to the real world. Well described.
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A clear case of deciding what present he needs versus what he wants.
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It makes one wonder how they’ll do in future relationships if it begins like this.
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