The burning sun turned my skin red, a one more time use of handkerchief to the face would have made it entirely transparent. Finally, the bus to my office route arrived. Well, not surprised with the public transport punctuality! The yellow sponge beneath the seat cover was more revealing than yesterday. But, couldn’t miss out my window seat. Playing my daily playlist which summed up to the approximate journey time to the office. Sometimes missing out “Imagine dragons” because of the exact time arrival. Leaping out of the bus and walking few steps away, made me stand in front of my office building.
Leaving the city of wisdom and living in the city of dreams was quite a transformation for me. Whenever I saw an old lady walking down the streets I could remember my evening walk with my grandma. Sometimes, a scowling between Amit and his Dad would make me miss the arguments. But, I was glad that vadapav tastes better here.
A five-storied building where each floor was occupied by individual companies who were striving hard to make their place in Forbes 500 at least. I ushered into the building and then pressed the level 3 button in the elevator to take me to my office floor. Scanning my thumb, I scurried inside. A morning greeting to each and every one was not difficult here. Sitting inside a box-like structure, where salary was given to me to think out of the box. Sitting on an ergonomically designed chair, as my boss explained it yesterday, I pressed the white power button of yellow CPU, which imposed my mind to think about my school dress combination.
A famous Windows wallpaper which consists of green plains all over and maybe depicting a sunny day was on my computer screen. I opened the mailbox and there was a mail stating my today’s To-Do list. As I was back on the desktop, a change of wallpaper was something unexpected as I never played with the desktop properties. I probed my eyes, an unusual scenario on the screen was taking place. The sunny day was getting replaced by the night, full of stars. The green plains observed a man lying on it, enjoying the shimmering sky. Within a few seconds, he stood up and entangled his fingers together, staring a strolling star across the sky. I rubbed my eyes to get back from the augmented reality. But, the next thing that came into the picture was the green plains were giving birth to many horizontal concrete blocks. Every concrete block had a name engraved on it. Well, the man who was praying to the star was in front of the block. He placed a flower on it and a gentle smile crossed his face. “Dude, what’s wrong with you?’’. my boss patted him. “Nothing, was searching for some files”, I answered. The short film made me perplexed about what just had happened. An extra task appeared on my to-do list. At the end of day, a checklist to all of them, except the decoding of scenario made me lose my mind.
I pressed the bell and my roommate was on the door, greeting me. But, nothing in return would have made him quite baffled. I scurried toward my room, placed my bag and jumped on the bed. “Let’s write down every scenario of the movie on the page and decipher it”, I thought. After an hour or two I jumped out of the bed and hugged my roommate and finally slept.
The birds chirping and the sun rays creeping in from the railing made me wide awake. Refreshing my mouth, I engrossed in a thought of writing a blog about the yesterday scenario. I finally started jotting down every frame of the short movie, distinctly. The man, the green plain, the glinting sky, the change of landscape into a graveyard and a weird smile in the end. The story continued with the explanation of man who was enjoying his present, so-called living in the moment and the sudden breakthrough of a star in the sky made him wish for the good future. But in all this, you miss out the past. Perhaps, because the world says to bury the past and never look over it. The weird smile and placing of a flower were giving a birth to a new meaning. A visit to the buried past, similarly to a weekly visit to the loved ones in the cemetery would conceive rejoice, as it will help you to introspect everything in your life and will evolve you as a person. So, you should certainly owe a debt of gratitude. With the title “Let’s visit there!” and inserting an appropriate face for the blog I posted it on every social website, which acted as a tranquilizer to my soul. “Dude, are you not getting late by any chance”, my roommate blurted out from the living room. “I hope that the bus maintains its punctuality as every day!”, I smirked.
