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Words well up inside

Not a vent to let them out

Some a joyous mood and rest some despair

But the vents are clogged

And some blocked, jammed or damaged

Where do these words go now?

This world seems seemingly impossible

Whence at times absorption is all it does

But now it doesn’t even adsorb

Some define the lives we live

Some others just pass by

They say us to multiply and divide

Our happiness and grieves

How does one do that

When there is no voice to speak?

For all the signs and signals

Do not always speak the words

That which the eyes do

Going away seems the best idea

But where to go is the trouble

In the midst of a great crowd

Yet walking so alone

the thumb rule??

Do not worry I am not going to rant in any technical aspects here. Just wanted to show you something. The something is nothing but your thumb, yes the thumb finger is what I am talking about. Lets gauge its power today.

Biologically we, the humans are a privileged species with the extensive usability of the thumb. To grab and do things. Try holding anything without using your thumb and chances are that the grab will be almost ineffective. The most important reference of this power of the thumb we find in Indian mythology is from Mahabharata when Dronacharya asks Ekalavya for his thumb.

In terms of measurements, the size of the thumb became what we till this date refer to as the inch. This means some ingenious individual realized that more o less the size of the thumb remains constant.

Add more ingenuity to this idea, the print of our thumb till this date acts as a sure shot identification marker with every person having his own personalized print.

But why am i talking about all this things which have long gone by? Ask yourself, which device are you using to read this article? Has to be computer, a handheld device and maybe something I know not. In this age I expect you to have come across cell phones, remote controllers, PDAs etc. very important part of most of our lives isn’t it? Last question, how do you type your SMSes?