The Modernity: A Perspective of Modern Times
by Vaibhav Shankar
For time eternal, human kind has been relying on paper money to pay for various essentials as well as luxuries. What happens when a person so used to paper money, steps into a world in which it has ceased to exist? Vaibhav contemplates in his writing titled, “The Modernity: A Perspective of Modern Times” about such a world.
One day I walked to the store to get some orange juice. I tried paying in cash but the cashier said no and asked me to come back with a “credit card” or “gpay”. I did not want to cause any ruckus for the customers so I simply walked out. But on my way out I saw people scrambling across counters and clicking pictures or giving some cards with markings on them. This was a very strange sight to me. I thought to myself whether age had finally caught up to me. The answer was, that it most definitely had…
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Nice write up Vaibhav.