Perception...

I had earlier written a post(The Flight) using this pic on my blog
So here I am...recycling the pic for my debut post on pick-a-pic :)

Looking out of the window, I could see the wing of the plane. Large and gigantic..as though setting out to conquer the world. The buildings on the ground below seemed so meek and submissive. The cars moving with all their speed were just mere specks glinting in the sunlight, as though mirrors on the jholas hanging outside a roadside shop on Commercial Street. I was gloating.....sitting inside the plane, I was the conquerer of the world. The plane was the chariot and I was the rider.

I could see a faint pink line on the horizon...and for a second it looked as though the world was flat. Just as though the fluffy clouds just went over the edge as they approached the think pink line...and were lost in the unknown, unexplored universe....

I couldn't help but think how awed the people on the ground would be seeing the plane. They would be scared...intimidated....!!!! I had a vision of people running helter-skelter, the way they do in the Independence day, Volcano type of movies. Run u little child..run for your life.....it gave an exhilarating high to be on top of the world.

And then my vision was clouded, literally down to the y. Much as I tried, I could only see the fluffy clouds below. And not a glimpse of the life below. The sun was a flaming red....melting at its edge..dissolving into the afternoon sky. And for a moment, the wing of the plane blanked out the sun. It held the sun captive in its wide span. Look you foolish sun, you are a mere speck...!!!Oh well..the world might revolve around you....but from where I stand...you dont exist !!!! I screamed silently into the depths of the sky...

The plane was minutes away from the descent. The sun was still a molten mass....burning down on the ground which I could now see clearly. And then I saw the shadow. The shadow of the plane...so small, inconsequential, a pathetically shrivelled and horrobily blackened image. And then I saw the people under the shadow-brightly dressed children coming home from school, housewives returning home after a satisying shopping spree, teenagers seeking respite from the heat at icecream shops....!!! The shadow just passed over them and they didnt even bat an eyelid. It was a non-existent entity in their lives....!!!!

And then we descended down to the earth...the plane and my ego !!!!!

Shine onto me, you bright glowing sun
And I will glitter like the chosen one
But I know I will never be sold
For I am not the glittering gold
I am just a small grain of sand
Among thousand others in the barren land

A Great Day for Freedom

I can’t take it any more. This is too much. She just can’t do that yaar..
Yeah, I know. But she is our teacher, afterall.
But that doesn’t mean she should call me like that in front of the whole class! I mean…
Relax. Lets not talk about it, now that school is over. Lets enjoy the ride.
No… she even hits us! That is not at all acceptable. Do you know, according to…
Chuck it, yaar.
But how? This kinda insult just cannot leave my mind. Please try to understand me, will you?
Listen… I tell you something… a secret!
What? What secret?
Shhh… promise me you won’t tell anyone…
Of course not! You are my best friend. I have kept many of our secrets, haven’t I?
Haan. I know. This is about Doctor Uncle…
Oh… what is it?
Swear god that you will not tell this to anyone.
…
Doctor Uncle has given me something that’ll help you forget all this that Nancy teacher is doing to us…
What?
Hmmm… even it’ll let us forget ALL our worries.
What is it?
I’ll tell you… lets just keep the cycles here naa.
Ok…
Remember I was angry like you yesterday, after school got over?
Yeah, because that witch made you stand outside the class the whole day…
Hmmm… so I was almost crying on my way back…when doctor uncle saw me and called me in his clinic.
…
He asked me what happened, why I was crying… so I told him what happened and how she treats us n all…
Achha. What happened then?
He said he has a solution to all this…he gave me one small pill to eat and asked me to relax for sometime.
…
I think I dozed off for a while… when I got up, I was feeling perfectly alright!
…
And doctor uncle was giving me a gentle massage… he said it’s a technique called “Acupressure” …it’s a Japanese technique for relieving your stress
Hmmm.. I think I have read about it somewhere…
He asked me not to tell anyone about this, because the pill is very expensive it seems. But you know what…
What?
I managed to flick 4 more pills from him!! Here they are!
WOW! Can I have one??
Ofcourse, yaar… you are my best friend! Let’s have one each…
Give. Here we go.. Now bye-bye to Nancy Teacher, those rubbish boys and the school … I am so happy…


Nothing is happening yaar…
Let’s have the other one too…maybe that will help.
Ok. Gimme one more.
But wait… first promise me, you will not tell this to anyone. Absolutely no one.
Yeah, I’ve already done that, yaar. I swear…
Ok… take. I too take one more… it just feels so great!

Hmmm.. I am feeling so nice. So happy!
So am I!!
This is just too cool… aren’t we supposed to relax for a while?
Yeah, but I feel like flying hiiiiiiiiiiigh in the air!
Look, lets just go and sit on the lawns there, naa…
Chal…

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Thursday, September 9, 1968

Two girls aged around 13 years were found dead in the valley of Chakharana near Dehradoon. The shocking incident was reported by local witnesses who saw the girls tripping from the cliff nearby. ‘The girls were acting as if they were trying to fly’, local sources said.

Initial investigations concluded that these girls studied in Mother Mary’s School in Dehradoon. Postmortem reports submitted by the Government Hospital, Dehradoon show that the girls were under a heavy dose of LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), a psychedelic drug recently added to the “tripper-medicine” list in America. It was also found that one of the girls had a sexual intercourse approximately 24 hours before death.

The cause of what seems like a suicide is still a mystery and...

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