"Life's Like That"

Long time and nothing better than pictures and small text is all that i posted on my blog since a long time.Well, i think today i may have something to key down to satiate my blogs hunger for words-to some extent. Though i can do
away without mentioning anything today aswell...but just to force the issue on to this once lively entity, i will do the needful.
O Hell!, i am such a big procrastinator.

ok..so what do i have to write...
ammm!!..It's about a promenade i took under the nocturnal setup of sky, with a facade of clouds making the moon a prisoner behind the cloudy sheet. Well you might think that what's in a walk to put it down on the blog and eat up the invaluable database space, especially when it's Walk all alone? But if i tell you about the special thing in the walk you might end up pitying me for some reason. So i'll keep that special or peculiar thing to figure out on your own.

As i was absent mindedly turning the pages of a book in the late afternoon, poring over the solutions of the word "LIFE", i suddenly realised
that i hadn't shaved my beard for a couple of weeks(do not frown;there have been longer gaps between the bushed and the glassy looks:-)ok, so here i was grabbing the paraphernalia to get down with the business of giving up the growth. It took some time to get over with the ordeal and thank GOD, without any cuts. And, my face was again resembling the photograph on my passport...Good, atleast somethings din't change in the past 3-4 months...As the sparks of ideas continued to effervesce out of my brain, i decided to take a look at the Lake in my city..Yes! there is lake in my city, beautifully kept, with somewhat muddy water because of silt and an amazing side-walk along its perimeter. A lake which is an area of activity all day long, summer or winter. And most amazingly, a lake to which i had not been to for the past 3-4 years.No No don't blame me for this. It's far away from my house(though Chandigarh is only 16 Kms in radius)...but you know...i have been busy all this time...yeh! yeh!..ok i agree i am making excuses for not being there for all this time. Anyways, this
is it and i broke the hiatus....a truce reached, a landmark of an event:)....
So as my mom got home, i slipped into my track suite, grabbed the keys and off with the car, enroute to the most awaited event...hehehe!

Making my way from one corner of the city to the greens and blues of the city beautiful.Meandering through the army of vehicles flowing on the busy roads, i reached the lake in a "songs' time"
As i hit the track, i could see the similar vista which greets every stroller along the lake "Sukhna" during the night. A necklace formed of some flickering and some static lights glowing in the distant far on the opposite banks of the lake. The sky was dark and misty, with a gush of wind flowing through the empty volume encapsuled between the earth and the sky. Amidst this criss-cross of lights and wind energy, i could hear a far cry of a duckling or may be a swan or may be a man peeing, entertaining himself with some sounds. Or may be it was ALL INDIA RADIO from some hut in the wilderness on the oppsite banks.
I'll leave the sound to your imagination. Ambling my way on the Walk-Way along the water, beating the slow paced strangers, i was on my way to freedom, alone and in ambivalence.

Cutting my way past the sparse crowd and walking past the hushed whispers love birds huddled together, cozying around with no apprehensions about the public stare. But i must say; it was one hell of a romantic evening. Wind, smell of wet soil from the drizzle in the evening,night,clouds, water and the superficial stars flickering at the distance. Wish i had her here today..:)...but there are tradef-offs to be made....lets leave the couples in peace...shhhhh!!
I walked on the curved track which seems to meet those flickering lights at the distant horizon. And yaaaaaaa...one thing i forgot to mention....usually people who walk alone in the dark..are looked after specially by the cops on the
bicycle....reasons, well coz there have been cases of suicides in the lake...GOD GIVES PEACE TO THEIR SOULS...So the cops try to bee as vigilant as possible...but luckily or call it unluckily, no cop was following me:)...may be i seem to be over excited ...ehehehhe!...little do they know:).In between, i made a call to someone....and then had a fight over some petty issue(and then i said sorry when i came home...and then again had a fight over something at the end of the conversation...hehehhee!!..stupid of us)
The wind was still blowing in heavy currents. With raised collars of my jacket, hands half closed allowing the wind to pass through the emptiness between by fingers and the palm as if i was holding some kind of sword made of wind to cut down my worries to pieces. Walking for some 3-4 Kms, i decided to turn and walk back to my car. So i turned and walked past the couples who were still busy in their own fantasy lands, unaware and unconcerned about the others present at the scene.....

Atlast, i came back to the parking lot, with flashes of the recent and not so recent past speeding infront of my eyes.

Memories are such strange things in the abyss of one's heart. A part of you ressurects them every now and then, and a part of you rues them because the inflict pain whenver they spring back...Within this ambivalence of thoughts i started the ignition of the car and accelerated on the road to my home...Nice evening, full of nothing but deviod of somethings.

Bas Ek Pal!!