Anatomy of a Kiss

In 1979 a picture of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker, passionately kissing in public scandalized the world. The motive of that kiss had nothing to do with a marriage proposal or support to Pride month. The actual reason, was to thank each other for a ten-year agreement to help producing chemical and nuclear weapons. Some say that kissing is like an explosion of endorphins. This one was. Literally.

I don't think Donald trump and his best (and so far only friend) Kim Jong-Un, went as far as kissing each other on their first date, here in paradisiac Singapore, just a few months ago. But hey, if Adam and Eve felt the love at the first sight in Paradise why not them. I just hope the outcome of their encounter will have lesser damaging consequences to the fate of humanity that the Biblical couple had. 

Let's just hope that if it actually happened, at least it wasn't a bad kiss. There is nothing worse than meeting the love of your life and find out he/she is a terrible kisser. You can teach someone how to ride a bike but not how to kiss. That's genetic. You either have it or not. Like the ability to understand Singlish.

Talking about the high level meeting, one had to wonder if, instead of both of them having to travel half the world to meet for a quick  dim sum lunch, it would have not been easier,  maybe just having a quick chat over the phone or create a WhatsApp group to discuss their issues with emoticons like the rest of the world does.

I have the feeling that the next world financial crisis will happen for the lack of productivity of people having to manage so many WhatsApp groups at the same time. Yes, it is not anymore about how many followers you have in Instagram but about how many groups are you have been included on.

Bullying has acquire a new meaning. Erasing a person from the group, it is the equivalent of a death sentence. You become an outcast. The worst offense you can do to anyone. It is similar to when people used to unfriend you in Facebook. For those how does not know what that's. It was an ancient form of communication used by Mothers to keep an eye on their children.

Equally cruel is when you find out your friends have had a group for a while of which you are not part of. That is the same as when Judas showed up in the Last Supper and he was already chatting with the Romans.

Nothing matters anymore unless someone creates a WhatsApp group about it. That's the reality of today's world

WhatsApp groups are like Ex-s. You can never get rid of them . We all have that friend that keep posting in the group for the birthday party from 2005. 

All of this is creating new complex "first world problems" for humanity. For instance , what to do when you have a group with all your friends and one of them breaks up with their partner.

What is the solution?. To create an alternative group without that person while pretending in the original that all is ok. But in order to do that we need also to create a separate one with the ex but without your friend to ensure the ex is not feeling left out. Extrapolate that to your family, in-laws, gym friends, work colleagues, ex work colleagues, former school friends,  random Tinder friends and your groups will multiply like followers in Instagram after posting a nude picture.

With all this attention required, it is not possible to work anymore. We all need a community manager. Because you have be careful not to send the comment about the ex to the group with the ex involved. Or even worse not to send your Mother the message meant for your lover.

Only positive outcome has been that finally the theory of parallel universes has been proved. You can live different lifes under different personas depending on the chat you are in.

World War three will not start by activating the nuclear bottom but when Trump sends the wrong emoticon to his bestie.