Travel and Living

Today we have Escalators in almost every shopping mall in the city and lets face it, we all love them. After all, Escalators are just another reason to be a little more lazy. But not everyone is comfortable with the Escalator and there are even some of us who are downright scared to step on one.
Here in India, most of the youth are quite comfortable with all aspects of technology be it mobile phones or finger print scanner or laptops or even Escalators. It is the older and conservative folks who have the problem with Escalators. Escalators are just machines which run steps seamlessly in one direction or the other and we as people just step on one and either go up or come down. But it is the fear of the middle class folks mainly women that either their dress will be caught by the Escalator and they will be dragged down or that they will step on an Escalator only to fall down on that metal surface and break a few bones. I guess when people were first introduced to commercial flying they must have thought that the plane will never take off or that it will fall out of the sky half way through their journey. As with all fears, the way to conquer this Escalator fear is to ride on one. But that is easier said than done considering the fact that the Escalators can be very disorienting with the way that the threads[steps] all look the same and when they move, it seems like a sea of steps with nothing to differentiate one from the other. The escalators themselves add to the problem an I am sure that when we all first stepped on one we must have all experienced that same effect. Be that as it may, we have to take the Escalators on with just 'blind trust' and hope that we have made the right call. It is this blind trust that we show on all aspects of technology that we must show on the Escalators as well. Of course, such blind trust makes us take things for granted but that is the way to deal with technology, expect them all to work accordingly and like magic, they will!

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