By: Taban Khajehnassiri
After reading this article, I strongly recommend you to get offline and take a short walk, maybe you can help someone who needs you and can not afford to send you an e-mail with the subject line: "Sir, can you help me?" The help and caring you give out unconditionally, will surely bring you the happiness you deserve and need mentally and spiritually to keep up your work.
We, as human beings, all have needs, We have physical needs, we need foods for instance, however we have emotional needs as well - we need family and friends we need friendship, love, harmony, care and understanding. - We sometimes die for our material needs so we need power and money, but unfortunately, we sometimes forget about our mental and/or spiritual needs. It's 2002 and we take this life and its events and situations for granted. It's 2002 and we have been left with the headache of the outcomes of the proliferation of technological breakthroughs during the last century, we use the modern technologies to see some parts of our needs, mostly our information needs met, but not all of our needs. In the era of information overload, it is the time of Mad Mouse Disease outbreak. Is it really safe to eat a hamburger? roast beef? Steak? Yes, that's OK, go ahead, help yourself, the beef is safe, they say. But watch yourself if you use computers and the Internet to meet all your needs, virtually that's impossible. Don't miss the reality of your life. After reading this article, I strongly recommend you to get offline and take a short walk, maybe you can help someone who needs you and can not afford to send you an e-mail with the subject line: "Sir, can you help me?" The help and caring you give out unconditionally, will surely bring you the happiness you deserve and need mentally and spiritually to keep up your work.
Doctor, doctor, I feel bad. I live bad. My eyes hurt. I cannot sleep well. Even my fingers, they are not at ease, they get numb in the middle of day. I am no longer able to breathe very well. What is this?
Easy! Easy! I am your doctor now! Relax, and let me see. I'll try to reach to your inner parts, then you can see, and you can hear and you can tell me about your past, present and future. I'll hear you. OK? So we start. What are you doing with your fingers? Are you pushing any buttons in your dreams? Ok then, we will find out about it. Now you just listen to me. Count with me : Seven ... Six ... Five ... Four ... Three ... Two ... One. That's it, you are in. Now you can see things, hear voices and experience them. Tell me your story. Continue with your previous session, do you remember the last part? You were telling me that you were a cat in your previous life? That's Ok. Easy now. I can see that you are now alone. keep repeating this please : "You are now alone ... You are now alone ... You are now alone .. then you can close your eyes and say "You are now alone.." You see? You are now alone then tell me what you see and feel!
OK Doctor, thank you. I repeat, "You are now alone ... " You are now alone ...You are now alone. You quit your full-time (government or private sector) job and you turn to your part-time one, your own environment, your home, you like being your own boss, you like telecommuting. You know what telecommuting is, Doctor? It is working from home, running a home-based business, sometimes, even when you are running a one man show business, alone. Ok, I have to repeat this "You are now alone" again and again, I just repeat: You are now alone ... You are now alone ...You are now alone ...
But when you are not alone, you see people of 2002 all around you, fight constantly, I hate fights, the arguments are mostly terrible, sometimes, by words which I believe hurt people the most, and sometimes, worse, hitting type fights and physical actions - wars in larger scales - for money, power, fame and reputation, for another term of office, or a better position at the office, for a parking area on streets. In 2002, I see, I have heard it from you doctor that there is a World Wide Panic over a World Wide Disease. You feel just all tired of this.
However, When you are alone ...You sit down to relax for a while on your sofa. Then, it all starts again, with your body, that is pain coming in, with your brain, disorders and arguments, with yourself, with your boss, your spouse, your friends, and all those bad or sad memories, inside, you hear them scream, you receive their threats and you feel again the anger, the sadness, the violence. You want to have a successful business online or offline, you want more visitors for your website, more traffic, more sales. You click this link to see that link, this page leading you to that page, you see many pages on your screen, when you are just alone ... In your own mind you talk to your boss, you talk to your spouse, your friends or even to yourself : "Don't raise your voice, I can hear you, don't treat anyone like that, don't threaten people, don't hit, don't kill, don't... don't.... don't... ." When You are alone ... Sometimes, you start to compare yourselves to others, you start to think about what others around you may think of you, this is all bad, I don't want to click these things, I mean I don't want to think of these. When you are just alone ... you start to see and feel all the bumps in the road of your life. You are not Ok, not anymore, you feel just exhausted when you are alone.
Then, you stop working, late at night, you shut down your computer to go for a rest, you go to your bed, you click off the lights, I mean you turn them off, then you shut down your eyes, your ears, your brain to relax, you start counting stars above staring at the ceiling or all your blessings to take a nap for a while, your dream is a deep sleep. But you click again on your pages, pages of the past, present and future, when you are alone. Once again, it begins banging on your head: "Come on ... What do you want next? What do you want to do? Today, you had to do this or that. Does it really matter? What are you doing again ... You have to sleep ... have to sleep ... forget 'em ... forgive 'em ... for God's sake, You have to sleep now! Don't think about them, just don't care!"
At last, you are and the sandman, alone, you fall asleep. Now, it's time for your dreams, it's all their turn, you start dreaming, first comes your sweet dreams, your childhood, your true friends, your loved ones, your missed ones, your goals, your dreams, your wishes... but ... then ... again ... Nightmares rush to your head: A big house on the top of a dark mountain covered by the fog come on little cat feet, I see, not so far away, a big mouse is chasing you - Ah doctor, please help me - when you are alone you scare. You are running so fast, it is horrible, you are horrified, you hear there voices calling you by name: "Stop! Listen! - This huge mouse is shouting- You son of a gun! You thought I'm dead, I am not, you see? I am chasing you! I am alive, big and powerful."
Suddenly, you decide to stop right over there, in the middle of nowhere, You pace for the top of that mountain, that house. You see another homepage, and a BIG SUCCESS written in Big Letters on the top of the hill. You have learned to face with your fears right in the eye you have to look. So you decide to turn back, face to face with that huge and big mouse, with that long long hairy tail, you take a deep breath, you shout: "What did you call me? You called me a coward? How could you? Say your prayer you mad mouse 'cause I'm gonna kill you right now! Are you ready? Ok... then take this ..." - You show him your pointing finger. That huge mouse stops, he pleas: "You are not going to do that again, are you?" "Sure, I do! I'll shut you down! Right there, right now! killing you is as simple as clicking that End Task button." - you reply firmly. You continue shouting: "I'll hit you ... rip you to shreds, you good-for-nothing mad! Now you're a dead rat!"
ahhhhh! You wake up with a loud scream! It's 25 Jan 2002 3:10 AM. There is a disgusting smell around the house. It smells badly like a dead rat, a corpse or something. You sit up in your bed thinking again: "What a nightmare! Wow... You stopped to kill that huge dirty rat ... Not bad ... not bad at all... That was not a nightmare enough you see? You heard him screaming at the last scene, do you remember? Perhaps, you killed him ... that's all ... and that's fine now! But! What is this disgusting smell?". You stand up and you walk to your home office to look around, you turn on the light and you see books, folders, papers, pens, pencils here and there, all around your computer set on the table. You go to sit down in front of the monitor, you turn on your computer, you start saying it as usual when you are alone: "Hello World! This is my Windows Operating System booting up now!" Let's then get connected to the net, there you can check out your mailbox ... You see? You sigh ... It's 2002. You are starting another article: "People use the information technology to get more of both the information and technology needed, to get in touch with their prospects and clients, but your friends, your true loved ones never call. They send you just e-mails instead, they send you jokes, they invite you to visit a website, just another joke site, another entertainment site, they send you electronic post-cards, that's not bad ... not at all ..." But, What a nightmare! You sing: "There is No BUSINESS like WEB BUSINESS!" Next step for you is to reach to touch your mouse to see if it's working properly or not. You play with it on the mouse pad. While you are going to reach for the Dial-up Networking's Icon, you remember the last scene of your nightmare - The big rat was screaming: "You son of a Gun! You want to click on me! I'll be back some day and I'll click on you!"
- But, wait a minute, you big rat, I click on you, with one left, and one right click, a double click here and a click and drag there, I will drag and drop you into the recycle bin, and as some have put it in this way: "Your death is just a click away."
You click on the first icon, you successfully kill the rat. Your modem screams.
Hey doctor, where am I clicking? What am I clicking about? Do I really malfunction? What should I eat or drink to click properly? I have seen so many links, banners, and many 'Click Here' buttons in the course of my life, however, I couldn't click all of them.
The first case of the epidemic Mad Mouse Disease was identified on 25 Jan 2002 3:10 AM by Taban Khajeh Nassiri, the author of an article with the same title. According to the article the most significant victims of the epidemic so far may appear to be all computer users, net users, net surfers, webmasters, site owners and netrepreneurs. It is fatal; its initial symptoms are usually clicking on almost everything displayed on any kind of screens, even recently on TV screens, a sudden loss of muscle control and coordination as well as erratic behavior. Studies show victims have usually the symptoms of right click to reach to the source code, save copyrighted pictures as while viewing web pages on the Internet. Victims visit all sites as possible, download all available programs and documents, click all those displayed 'Click Here' and 'Click Now' links, all ads and banners, subscribe all mailing-lists, participate in all kinds of votes and polls, perform clicking and draging, opening, closing, maximizing and minimizing windows instantly and erratically.