“Wrong Number”

Before I write anything about the “wrong number phenomenon” let me explain what I mean by “wrong number.” There is a very interesting phenomenon that I heard of or is rather came across recently. It is popular in some parts of the world and in some parts of our country even. It is an interesting phenomenon that has emerged in the world or telecommunication with the coming of cellphones. “Wrong number phenomenon” refers to the phenomenon of talking to the persons unknown to the individual. This phenomenon has caught very fast among the youth. Here, when a youth gets a call from an unknown number instead of admitting that it is a “wrong number” and telling the person concerned, the truth; the person begins to “befriend” and talk to the other party. This happens faster among the youth of complementary sex. This regular/chronic talking to each other over the time develops further into an infatuation and may lead to meeting each other and even to the point of deciding to settle in marriage. However, in most cases the relationship does not flower or at least is seen not to flower into marriage; because most of these individuals discover that the “partner” is “defective” or not unto the expectation.

This is a phenomenon seems to be a very simple, funny and insignificant phenomenon. However, it tells us a lot of things about our societies or the tendencies in our societies. One of the very vivid implications of this perverted behaviour is the “objectification of the other” and the tendency to hide from the facts/truths of life. The question that such people need to answer to is, why are you afraid of life? If you are shy of doing something in public does it not indicate that what you are doing is not ok? If it is not ok why do it?