The age of electronic invites

I hate to have a sad beginning. But I have to have it. It's called back-story my friend, and its sad (to most). So here goes, unlike all my friends, juniors, children-aged citizens etc, the only social life I have right now is characters from history, people occurring in current affairs columns, geographical phenomenon and our benevolent friends from sitcoms. Therefore, I take invitations which appear in electronic mail seriously. Only recently did I realize that I may belong to a rare clique of persons to be doing this. This realization sucked, to put it aesthetically. And it took three experiences for it sink in. But it made me sit and think about the height of fake-benevolence that electronic media have taken us to! People invite people to important events like book-lunches, sit-ins, parties and even marriages via. social media. But here's the tip. If you get an email with a beautiful invite attached, listing in excruciating detail the highlights of that event with full pictures of the happy hosts, the star-performers or the happy couple (a photo-shoot done on several locations) and imploring your company : don't go.  More often than not, its just a show of their happiness, a decorated lip-service, if you will because, they don't expect to actually show (yes invites of birthdays, engagements and marriages, I'm referring to you). Usually it's just an exhibition of 'how happy we are'. Also, it's a hook dangled to fetch compliments, praises and 'best-wishes'. Because here's the deal, whats the point in them being happy if the whole world doesn't see, appreciate and purr over their happiness haan? See, its amazing you're so happy but could please portray the happiness as an album on Facebook? Or a website that DOESN'T LIST ME AS AN INVITEE. I'm still going to like it, okay? Inadvertently that got me thinking about my wedding invite (blush blush), when ever, if ever, it happens (Shut up, it's gonna happen). Okay, even if there's no marriage, there is DE-FIN-I-TELY going to be a book launch (yeah, baby!) 1. No electronic invite to the entire graduation batch. 2. I'm going to personally call all the people I really, truly want there. 3. Then I'm going to badger them to show up and make sure they feel wanted at the actual event. 4. Limited, small, personal will be my catch-words. So the war-cry of the day is : Fake-benevolence really sucks. Stop doing it, people.