Sometimes I look around in my room and try to find out what is that I’m truly missing in my life which makes me feel incomplete. I almost have everything I desired for five years ago, yet when I see through my window I always feel a sense of being inadequate. I take some selfies and post them on Facebook expecting a few likes, but when none come my way, I place the blame squarely and deservedly on the clarity of the camera. I also take out my DSLR but I’m too lazy to lift it, adjust the lenses and everything a photographer should do with it. I bought it couple years ago, but I never used it. I think having a DSLR does not make anyone a photographer. I’m not one but I have the camera. Why? It is a good question. I have money. That’s why. It is a bad answer.

Anyway, after pondering another couple hours as to what I’m missing in my life, the answer strikes me. It is a Tablet. The cool thing, people take everywhere with them which allows them to connect with everyone else willing or unwilling, which allows people to outrage freely against anything and everything that is wrong with mankind while travelling in a local metro train or 6 seater auto. Now I decide to buy that one in hope that its presence might fill the void in my life somehow.

I check on couple of sites about the best features, quality and cheaper priced ones. I don’t think I liked any of them but then I don’t want to end the day without buying one. I have money, time and no life so a tablet is going to give me everything in life that I need right now. I decide on one, make a couple of calls to my friends. They have all suggested against buying that one, but the morons were just jealous or plain ignorant. None of them have tablets, but are experts in using them. They always have higher scores in Temple Run and Subway Surfers than me, but then again I always play on my phone which has a smaller screen and I was unable to concentrate longer playing with it. Another reason why I should buy the damn thing. The tablet. So here am I placing the order. I feel a sense of achievement. I almost went ahead to get it delivered the next day by opting for paid delivery but better sense prevailed just at the right moment.

The D Day came 2 days later. I was browsing idly on my laptop and hating it all the more since it is too heavy and wishing for the speedy arrival of my tablet. The two friend requests I have sent to the hot girls were not accepted, when to my horror I realized that the website from which I bought the tablet showed me a lesser price. Enraged, I called the customer support guys and asked them if they could adjust the difference. I knew the answer anyway, but was wondering at their effective circumvention of the issue. Finally after 30 minutes, they told me that I could reject the order on delivery and can wait for another 10 days before they give me the new one with the latest price. I was undecided, but got off from the call.

Just then I heard a knock on my door and the guy showed me a new parcel which contained my tablet. How can I reject the thing which I so dearly wanted in my life for a mere price difference? So I took the parcel and smiled at the guy. The guy gave me a bored expression of someone who saw people smiling every day. I ignored his lack of energy and opened my new shining new tablet. It was a sleek gadget and the weight felt good and correct in my hands. I was smiling so sheepishly that I wanted to have a look at myself in the mirror, but then again, I’m not a very indulgent person.

I quickly installed all the free apps, imported all the contacts in my life from all the social networks I have been a part of into the glossy object. I took selfies with a renewed vigor and for a change I liked them all. Finally, I logged on to Facebook to check if any of the two girls have added me, but all I got were messages from 4 of my relatives and some obscure schoolmates asking for my contact number. Damn. Some things in life never change, no matter what gadget you use or what efforts you put into.

Facebook blocked me from sending anymore friend requests for the day and my hand started to sweat for holding the tablet for a long time. I hate the smell of sweat. Particularly when it’s mine.
This post was written as part of Lenovo Yoga Tablet Contest held on IndiBlogger