Hello hivers,
Its been quite a long since I last wrote on hive platform.
Lets get to todays blog.
A new Mall was opened in the city. The biggest, greatest of all. Magnificent building on outskirt of the city, sprawled from east to west, a tower in center with sky high reach. On top of the tower was a big sphere colored in burning red.
Image generated through gemini is just a reference to the imagination in story.
The main road from city to mall was decorated with shimmering lights running left to right across the road. The lights decoration was in abundance starting from the city and it was getting sparse towards the mall.
A grand entrance door was visible from a distance. The door shining bright seemed to be of gold. A rising sun was engraved at center emanating its rays to everywhere.
A notice at the entrance was engraved on stone in big and bold.
Welcome to 'The Mall'
Its open for all irrespective of your age, caste, color or beliefs. Every citizen of the city is invited. This place has everything you may want to buy, learn, experience or explore. However, there are some conditions that you have to adhere before entering the place.
- Everything in this mall has a price, there is nothing for free.
- The currency you might have bought from city, will not work here.
- Every entrant will get a bag of coins while entering the mall.
- There will be same no of coins for everyone.
- Everyone will be allowed to enter the mall, only once in a day.
- No one can borrow/lend coins with others in the mall.
- You cannot over spend in the mall or any remaining coins need to be submitted back while exiting the mall.
People from every corner of city were coming to see this new mall. Many standing outside looking at the magnificent mall in astonishment. The grand door allows many lines in parallel to let people enter. At the entrance everyone got a bag of coins. Though many not sure what to do with the coins and what all is available in the mall to spend coins on, everyone was excited to see what it holds for them.
Immediately after getting the bag of coins and stepping out of queue one can see the vast expense of the mall and the things it offer. One cannot see or get to know all the things on offer standing at one place. What it looked from outside was huge for sure, but after entering it one can just try to imagine how gigantic it actually was. Looking at the enormously big space and infinite sections to explore it was sure that no one can actually check all, this mall has on offer.
There were parks for a nature walk, there were adventure parks to feel the adrenaline rush, there were multiple movie halls playing movies of all length all genre, there were gaming parlors, casino's, gym, spa/massage center.
There were also sections to give/educate people on special skills. Guided tours for different specializations, classes for life skills, professional courses, meditation room.
While we talk about what or what not you can get here, this place also had some 'Dark sections'. These sections were scattered everywhere, some at corners some others among other sections but had a 'Gray tone' color theme. Some were darker than others. Weather legal or not these dark sections had services/experiences to offer which are not generally acceptable in society. Surprisingly many people were going towards these sections covering their face.
Some spent all their coins in 1-2 activities left with no coins to explore other things. Some activities were more pricier than others, some even with a low price were very addictive so people going for such activities stuck there and ultimately spent all their coins.
The days came to an end and people were rushing out of the mall. Most of the people have not explored most of the sections even many were stuck to some sections as per their initial choice and couldn't see further anything better.
Many people spent all their coins in games, movies, casinos. many others went inside dark rooms didn't came out before end of day or when they were left with no more coins.
Next day large gathering was in queue at entrance waiting for the doors to open. The doors opened at time and people rushed in collecting their bag of coins. No one had any coin left from previous day, even if anyone had not spent it they had to submit any remaining coins coming out of mall. So here today also everyone has same no of coins, but different choices, different priorities, different taste and so people rushed towards their preferred sections. Many people didn't bothered to explore other things, some which they might have found interesting. Bound by their preconceived thoughts and moreover with the addiction of something they found interesting last day they spent all their coins again on same activities/sections.
Days passing and its a routine now. People come get their bag of coins enter the mall and irrespective of what they can get/know/experience/learn they rush to their preferred sections and spend their coins the same way. Most of the people do not try to explore, most of the people don't care about the implications of their actions. Most of the people don't get the purpose of getting the bag of coins and don't plan how they should spend it.
While most of the people are like this and not bother about other things this mall has on offer, some people roam the mall like a true explorer. Some people spend their coins on learning new things, experiencing things to enhance their knowledge base, opting for courses, getting new skills. This makes them different, different from crowd. The crowd that comes daily to mall. The crowd that spends their bag of coins absent-mindedly. The crowd that fears from exploring new things and goes on for same daily routine without thinking about what better can be done.
Friends this mall is something about our lives, the bag of coins is our time (same for all). The things on offer are everything that life has on offer for us. What we do and what can be done is the difference that makes some people stand out from crowd.
The infinite scrolling is snatching many opportunities from us.
Just random thoughts.
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