You can reach me but you cannot locate me!

Been slightly irregular with my walks.Hence started early from work with the single mission of making up lost time.So here I was enjoying the total silence of early evening in our colony and purposefully walking along.I suddenly heard a voice from the creeping shadows. It was a young boy speaking on his mobile.He was telling someone, yeah yeah i am at home, please come to this shop in half an hour, i will be there. I looked closely, no this boy does not live in our colony and definitely would not be standing under the shadows and making calls to whoever-it-was if he was living here.Suddenly it stuck me, the power of the mobile. It can reach you wherever you are, but cannot locate you. It does not give you away!Gives you the freedom to be wherever you are. I remember people used to abhor a mobile some years back dumping it as an electronic leash!Leash it is but it keeps you free to be wherever you want to be!
I remember many a time, when we get a call from home, we say we are already on our way; never mind that we would have not yet stepped out of the office.A mobile helps to keep a guilty conscience at bay, albeit for a short time.
Compare days of only landlines. We obviously cannot say i am not in office, when you are. Remember the great comical scenes in movies where a child takes a call and says mommie is here in the kitchen, when you would have very much wished that you are not traced.If only one had a mobile then you can always tell the unwanted caller that you are held up in a traffic jam(you might be slurping on mixed fruit jam at home!) and hence cannot reach there in time.
Of course there are some special people who do not care to be reached(let alone located), even with a mobile. They evolve very imaginative ways; first of all do not get a mobile; this is the best, but due to some persuation, you get one; step 2, delay activating it; step 3, keep it in switch off mode; step 4 forget to charge it every time;step 5 ignore the incessant bills that keep coming and piling up;if all these fail, remember to drop it in the bucket while having your bath.Dies an unnatural death.End of story.
Of course internet and ATM also serve similar purpose of being available and useful to you to keep in touch, without disclosing your location.Perfect for youngsters!!!