Choices!

Last night, I was faced with a dilemma. Since sleep eludes me most nights, I trick my system into thinking I'm brain-tired by either reading a book or playing Farmville (god bless Zynga for making it iPhone compatible). While I don't particularly relish the thought of holding my phone at an awkward angle, waiting for a full ten minutes till all the trees and animals of my large farm load, and then painstakingly identifying which trees need harvesting, using my finger to do all this- whew! My poor finger. On the other hand, if I were to read a book, I need only pick it up, flick a few pages, and am transported into another world! Besides, that old musty smell which wafts through my well-thumbed version of Little Women with it's yellowed pages- takes me back several decades to summer afternoons in my house at Lucknow, where as a little girl, I would lie besides my Granny and devour tales- both spoken and written-greedily. Sigh. It's technology vs nostalgia and guess who wins- I guess old age is creeping up on me coz I prefer my old book to virtual farming!