Name: Karthik Roshan

Title: The Wi-Fi Went Down… and I Found Myself!

Hello everyone!

Let me tell you about the most tragic, terrifying, tear-worthy day of my life.

The Wi-Fi went down.

I know. That sentence should come with a warning label.

It was a regular evening. I was multitasking like a digital ninja—scrolling Instagram with my right thumb, chatting on WhatsApp with my left, binge-watching a series with one eye, and listening to music with half an ear.

And then it happened.

“No internet connection.”

At first, I laughed. “Hahaha, classic Wi-Fi drama.”

I restarted the router like a man on a mission. Switched it off. Switched it on. Spoke gently to it. Threatened it. Prayed to the internet gods. Nothing worked.

I looked at my phone and felt something I hadn’t felt in years: boredom.

I had no choice. I… I… looked up.

And you know what I saw?

My family. Actual human beings. Not pixels. Not Bitmojis. Real faces.

My dad was reading a newspaper. I hadn’t seen one of those in years! I actually thought it was a giant Kindle.

My mom was cooking and singing an old Tamil song—no auto-tune, no background beat. Just her voice.

And my younger brother? He was doing his homework. With a pencil. Like in the Stone Age!

Out of sheer desperation, I went to the kitchen and asked my mom, “Do you need help?”

She froze. Looked at me like I was a ghost. I mean, who volunteers to cut vegetables when there's no Instagram story involved?

She gave me onions. I cried—because of the onions and the emotional shock of being useful.

Then, with nothing else to do, I went outside. And I saw the sky. THE SKY! Not a wallpaper. Not a filter. The real one.

Birds were flying. A breeze was blowing. I sat there, doing nothing… and for the first time, I felt everything.

Suddenly, I wasn’t bored. I was peaceful. My mind was clear. I wasn’t thinking in hashtags or captions. I wasn’t counting likes—I was counting stars.

That night, when the Wi-Fi finally came back, I didn’t celebrate.

I didn’t even rush to check my phone.

Okay, okay… I checked it.

But then I turned it off.

Because I realized something very important:

We’re so busy being “online”…

That we’ve completely forgotten how to be alive.

So here’s the truth:

We scroll past our lives.

We “like” photos of people we ignore in real life.

We laugh at memes, but forget to laugh with our families.

Isn’t that strange?

The next day, I decided to make a small change.

At dinner, I left my phone in another room.

I actually talked to my parents. And guess what?

They’re not boring. They’re just... offline.

So here’s my challenge to you:

One hour. No Wi-Fi. No screens. Just life.

Look up. Talk. Laugh. Listen. Hug.

Because the best connection… isn’t 5G. It’s being present.

Next time your Wi-Fi goes down, don’t panic.

Don’t curse your destiny.

Just smile and say,

“Finally, I have full signal… with life.”

Thank you.