OCTOBER SKY: FEELS LIKE GOD !!

Its the 4^th of October 17:00 hrs. I’m lazing in my room and thinking what to do. Life was just the same and my brains were begging for some introspection. Watching my favourite DVDs while my management books lay besides me – Kotler half dead, Sales Management half torn, The Eco Times shouting about MAM-TATA tiffs... huh wheres life man!

As I scratch my beard for the hundredth time today I shrug my head in disgust. I see the garden outside my house. A sudden sway of the wind, and the leaves of the oldest tree in the neighbourhood; falling off. For a moment people around look in disgust while I look around in pride – finally my brain can think! I gather my cam and go to the terrace – leaving my mum yelling at me to watch out! As I step up what I see for the next 40 minutes is unbelievable.

I see the dark winds approaching from that side of the horizon. This is the same sky I keep watching when the bright sun is out there gushing its rays on mother earth. I observe the sight of the dark clouds acquiring the lighter sky zones. I start grinning when I see the crazy crows running around wondering about what to do. The sky was so beautiful man...the darkness above me from front to back. Like a small kind I (my brains) jump outta joy! Still wondering why I keep saying my brains? Haha

I stand there on top of my water tank and it reminds me the scene from LORD OF THE RINGS – II where the protagonist looks up the sky and predicts a bloody war somewhere close by. I stand there looking at people below me running around. Clueless and cursing themselves for the rational of not picking up the umbrella which lays somewhere in the racks! Me still thinking where the rain is. Is it gonna come? After a long hiatus of over a month and half? As I look around in anticipation, I see the sky and open arms. The drops fall on me and I feel like ...GOD!!!

As I play God and look around the vicinity which is err...rather confused at this point of time, no doubt the rain has fastened up the life in the otherwise lethargic neighbourhood! But what is this? The housewives run to gather the clothes which they left to dry up. Poor uncles, I mean gentlemen run back home in an attempt to save themselves from soaking. Ahh comeon man!!! Whats wrong with you guys. I (God) have just attempted to give you the happiness and you don’t care about it. Silly mortals!! When was the last time you guys had fun man! Emulating God, I scan towards the south and I see the kids play football like the Roonies and the Ronaldos! Ahh thats divinity, I smile again and shake my head.

I close my eyes and rest back on the ladder beside me, enjoying the scenic beauty. Greenery, the water and above it the dark clouds. Wow! Then suddenly I saw something which I’m sure as kids we kept hearing all the times. Remember the days when you just lost the race by just a micro second. Or for the procrastinating few, the one contract you lost. Ahh or the engineers like me who got the glorious ATKTs. Remember what the souls around us said. “Every dark cloud has a silver lining” Yup thats what I saw – A SILVER LINING!

Amused by the sight I raise, taking my pose as God! With one leg on the ladder and the other on the raised wall of the water tank, one hand on my waist and the other sharpening my eye sight to check out the silver lining more accurately. Wow! Gushed my lips and the clouds passed over me! As I watched them go by, I said to myself – is this the darkness of our lives which persists and is this how it just goes off in a flash? Superr as my friend from Hyderabad exclaims always! Thats the reality, in a snip of the eyes its all gone! I (God) turns around and looks behind me. The beautiful light orange colour dawns across the horizon. My eyes juggle as I stand in the same pose as described earlier! Behind me go the dark clouds, fading away and ahead of me dawns the light amber coloured sky which brings a cold wave! Happy realization the God in me says! I lay there for a while proud of this simple fact about life that the mortals fail to comprehend. Slowly I hop off the ladder and as I shut the door besides me – I look up to the October Sky and bid it adieu !!