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Child in me!!

 I call this world the FAST TRACK WORLD My boys were watching the iconic Malgudi Days on Amazon Prime. They were hooked and addicted to the series. The nostalgic me felt a connect and sense of pride that they seemed to enjoy a serial that I enjoyed watching in the 80's! They binge watched 54 episodes/ 4 seasons in less than a week. Deja Vu to now, I hear a lot of adults telling me how Netflix is a time consuming binge watching affair! Few of my friends even avoid initiating a series since temptation could be all consuming!  The boys stared at me in disbelief when I said we watched Malgudi Days once a week, and if we lost power we simply missed that episode. To them this was agonising.  The tech driven world has its snare all around us making it almost impossible to break through these shackles. Alexa, Siri, Ok Google, and the like have made patience a non existent virtue. Everything is instant!!  On a recent Mom + Children trek, we lost access to the mobile network a...