SpiMails

Let me make a declaration. With this small piece of my blah-blah, I do not intend to hurt anyone's religious sentiments. I dont know whether the reader(that is you) is an ardent follower of Hindu rituals and observe its prescribed austerities. This piece is just an outcome of the Chinese Tantra targeting my inbox, the fourth I had received in a day.

Today's teenagers seem to question everything under the sun and more so when it comes to following or adapting a religious faith. It is commonplace to hear teens screaming ”Jesus!" or just " Jeeez!!", when excited or shocked. Hindu elders even accepted this practice as long as they dont hear 'shit' . Coming to the crux, belief in sending spiritual mails is nothing but out-right foolishness. Let me baptize these spiritual mails as 'spimails' for my convenience.

Indian teenagers and just-turned adults are into the habit of getting easily fascinated by anything that is foreign to our culture. Who said Aunt Xenophobia is on the prowl ? At least she has not visited our part of the planet. Rather it’s the other way round. When Mom (or Mamma!) asks her lad to buy a coconut for the pooja, it is long forgotten before it is heard. But a Chinese tantra??? Remember the blackmailing (blackmail in email) words "Don't break this chain. Send it to at least 10 people whom u know or don't know or don't want to know". A threat which is immediately obeyed or serrendered to. The integrity of those who consider Hindu rites as mere superstition will be put to question if their names are in the list of spimail senders.

Some spimails even go the extent of scaring young fellows that relationship with their sweetheart would come to a sad end if they cannot think of 10 names in an instant. This often results in sending spimails to perfect strangers, whose email id just happened to be somewhere in the list of recipients. Some spimails even advise you not to postpone. You better learn to click before you think.

I would make a humble request to all email users not to get prompted to follow the mad crowd. Turning the spam guard ON will not help as you don't know who is going to fire the next spimail at you. Your very close pal or that clumsy boss might end up sending you one because he has just had a very bad time of his life and was forced to some sort of remorse.

To avoid trafficking the net and blocking the all-important mails from reaching at right time, to avoid frustrations, lets avoid spimails.