"Dude, you would not believe what I just heard!"
We live an age of cliches. Yes, that too is one. Everyday conversation is now cliche. "Ssup?" , "Nothing much.", "Hmmmm." recognize those? These are what pass off for a good talk these days. So every now and then when I do encounter something off the mundane, it makes for story-telling! Gossip maccha, that's the word. The word of mouth was instrumental in passing down our prized scriptures for ages, word of mouth has seen the Vedas, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and what not. Though with time, it seems words have gotten too much for the mouth, as knowledge got too much for the masses. Einstein, Hawking, Schrodinger, etc came and went, leaving more and more knowledge for the masses to digest. An average IQ of around 100 meant that these pearls of wisdom were digestible by some superior few, the rest were left to fend for lesser-knowledgeable words to mouth.
"Yeah, so get this! It turns out Vanilla and Chocolate have not yet made Ice-cream!"Ah. Yes. Ice-cream, that's good. Nothing beats ice-cream. But then again gossip beats nothing, so we have a clear winner here. What's intriguing though, is not why Vanilla and Chocolate have not yet made Ice-cream (Will someone just get those two a nice little tree!), but how this little piece of "what's up" ended up beating upon your tympanic membrane ('ear 'ear!). Tracking back we land upon the Chinese (Yes, there's nothing they haven't made) as the source for the spread of this age old tradition. Well they never intentionally got together to whisper and stuff, but their language was just so incomprehensible to the Queen's Best that the British just dismissed them as pointless whispers.
"You know what else is pointless?! Vanilla being with Chocolate! Darn what a waste of good ice-cream!"Hmmm. Well Vanilla might not get Chocolate to make ice-cream but our little tale sure did not start with the Chinese making ice-cream. It took a nice long frank conversation, and some "don't tell this to anyone" banter to finally reach the ears of someone not so good at "don't tell this to anyone" type stuff. So casual conversation got overridden by our little whisper in many circles (by now growing in strength and already making plans to take over the world), making its passage through many a mouth, it transcends from a secret, into... wait for it... wait for it cuz you'd not believe if I told you... GOSSIP. Yes gossip, rumor, story, all the faces of the same (weird multifaceted) coin.
"But then again, it's just a rumor. We cannot really be sure. Oh and DON'T TELL ANYONE!"Ofcourse I won't tell anyone! (Maybe just post it on my blog, but it never gets out of my mouth!) Anyhoe, the gossip now in its prime is looking to grow further, "soon I shall be everywhere! Upon every tongue! Upon every "back of my mind"! Mwahahaha". But as are the stories of Kardashian, Beiber, and Google Plus have shown us; everything eventually meets its fate. Fall upon the ears of enough dis-interested chaps, and our ever growing buddy is reduced to a "Meh. Whatever." thing. True story.
"So, What's up with you?"
"Nothing."
"Hmmmm."To sum it all up; gossip's the word of the age, and 'em mongers the prophets. After all there's never enough to keep everyone happy!
"That's what she said last night!"
P.S. Vanilla and Chocolate are not real names! :| But yes, real people. :P
P.P.S. I brought up Einstein and Hawking only so I could share this and be very very happy about having passed something down by might of pen!
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