Somewhere in between lost and found...

      Came across this crazy theory called 'six degrees of separation' today. This theory proposed by a Hungarian writer states that anyone can be connected to any other person on this planet in six or fewer intermediates as in terms of introduction. A degree of separation is basically the measure of social distance.      Many experiments and projects have been conducted across the globe to prove or disprove the point. In an experiment undertaken by Microsoft, they tried connecting people using the large database of social networking. They had come up with results like, more that seventy percent of people can be connected in seven or fewer steps and the others in about 29 steps. From this, the concept of 6.6 or 7 degrees of separation was derived. Not going into its technicality in deep, I found this to be very amusing.     This concept has been then used then in several movies, songs and games considering different ...

      The other day I went to a park with my nephew and sister. It was really after a long time that I was seeing those slides, swings, monkey-bars, etc. My nephew super excitedly was running up and down the slides. All the other children with a lot on enthusiasm were running around making their own way. But the thing I couldn’t help noticing was, the children playing there belonged to the ages of 2-6 years. The question was ‘What were the ‘slightly older’ kids doing on a holiday evening?’ The answer was pretty easy. They probably were sitting in front of the TV, or lost in their parent’s smartphones or wandering aimlessly in a mall.       And in a jiffy, there was a flashback. I remembered the little me and my friends running and playing.  I just loved playing those outdoor games so much. Being from a small town and having a nice park just around the corner, childhood was a treat to me. For us evenings meant a never ending game of hide and go...