Thank you !!

That was a time when freedom danced and joy bounced upside down in life. Of Course i am talking about the wonderful college days and it was during the semester holidays, when this intriguing and strange encounter happened. It was lunchtime at home and keeping with the norms of holidays i brought my food to the room where our computer was and decided to make the room dark to watch a movie. I tried to close the window when i found a yellow spot on the window sill. Wondering what it could be, i took a closer look and found that it looked like a egg- yolk that came from a broken egg. Soon after i was proved right when i could also see some broken egg shells except that these were very thin, small and slightly brown in color compared to the normal one( In case you are wondering which one, then its the one you try to fry, boil and make designs off before gulping it in one go). Curious at first, as to what egg this could be and how it came here,but soon after i just succumbed to the overwhelming attraction towards mom's food and the siesta movie awaiting me.

A perfect holiday later, the same ritual, at the same time next day, i was even more eager to watch a movie as it was supposed to be a new one just downloaded off the net. As i tried to enter the room, out of my enthusiasm i nearly tripped along the door and that's when i found the yellow spot at the same place as before and was i surprised to see that it was fresh this time. There were broken shells scattered on both sides of the liquid yolk. With other emotions completely subdued i was determined to find out what egg it is and where it came from. As it happens to be, my home was built almost 30 years ago and some parts of it definitely needed an urgent redressal. The window i was looking at, a previously abandoned fort of the termites was recently inhabited by some house lizards. As i was staring at the window closely thinking about old times i found a not-very-big hole staring back at me from the corner of the sill adjust to the walls. There it was hiding like a miniature table-tennis ball almost on the verge of the hole, where even the slightest vibration can spell doom to the lizard egg, much like the ones that were gone before.

The tiny semi-white lizard egg seemed determined to live or so it looked from the way it was holding itself perilously against the small powdered wooden crumbs which might give away any time, inside the hole. Concerned over seeing two eggs already gone the past days, the more i wanted to help this one out of its precarious position. Unaware of how light to hold the egg, i carefully fingered and lifted it from its place and put it in my palms. I had a tickling sensation on my hands as it rolled.

After much thought as to where it would be safe, also knowing very well that it needed a warm, dry and secluded place and at a lesser height so as to avoid the misfortunes of the other eggs, i found my old shoes to match the needs perfectly. Having the shoe rack in the same room was a blessing in disguise and so in went the egg, into my old leather battered RedTape shoes. With the egg safe i was at peace with myself the rest of that day.

Next two days went more than anything like two typical semester holidays and i completely forgot about the egg. That day i had got a new first person shoot PC game and wanted to check it out. I sat before the computer and impatiently started the installation process of the game. It was taking age-long and i kept staring at the monitor for it to progress. Suddenly i felt something on my lap. As it happens all the time at households for dirt, cobwebs or some insects jumping on you out of nowhere, here i was literally thrown out of my minds when i found the tiniest lizard i have ever seen in my life, sitting on my lap. Though initially it startled me, i was and still am surprised that i never moved an inch to disturb the lizard. The creature, as tiny as it was with dark chocolate color just sat there cooly for a few seconds which struck me as very unlikely as such a being that is on constant vigilance and having the expert escape mechanisms knew no danger at that time.

That is exactly the time when it almost looked like or it might be a figment of my imagination( I still dont know) that the creature for a fraction of second looked like it blinked its eye and then took off immediately as though someone set its tail on fire. Greatly surprised and shocked by what happened few moments ago, as i very well know lizards never venture near humans and run at the first sight of them, and here it was, the tiny one sitting on my lap for a few seconds, that it struck me !

I quickly got up and rummaged the shoe rack to find the old RedTape. When i found the shoes, i felt my hand inside and all i could find was some broken egg shells but this time there was no trace of yolk anywhere to be found.

I realised then that the blink of the eye almost looked like a "Thank You" !!

Twists but Truths - 2

Time and tide waits for none, but sometimes you have to be patient enough to wait for the right time and tide to carry you forward.

Twists but Truths - 1

Ideas are like fast evaporating water droplets that play on top of the leaves. Neither do they stay put nor do they wait for you to catch them.

Engineer

Throughout history the world has been conflicted with wars. Wars of every kind have been fought using all the available technologies finding a way towards destruction .In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners; it is the job of the thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Instinctive of what the world has already gone over, the job to clean up this place devoid of all the filth brought with war lies with those thinking people, us.