A few days back I gave my mom the job of sorting out the wedding photos which involved going through 5gb of photos and dividing them event-wise into 4 folders.A very trivial task but the tough part for my mom was that all this work was on the laptop.Now a fact of matter is that she is computer literate but is not too comfortable with it.So soon after starting the work she got irritated , because we earlier had a mouse which broke so she had to do everything with the touch-pad,and left the thing incomplete.I started teasing my mom about how obsolete her methodology is regarding the computer related work.To comfort her I explained to her how my generation is far too intelligent than her's and How we are able to comprehend and see reason in things faster than our ancestors.I am a MSc. Chemistry just like my mom so whenever she isn't able to understand anything she calls for me.I feel happy that i am able to help her out but i never forget to prove my superiority by cracking a joke on her.
I have come to realise this fact that no matter how much we mock our elders as of now we will be facing the same situation with role-reversal when we grow old.I see toddlers play with mobile phones and other gadgets which I had never heard of when i was their age.I pity my state when my kids will mock me about being technically obsolete.
