Saturday, September 23, 2006

Utility chamber and a volley of thoughts

As I lay sprawled over the roof top of my pent house I felt a subtle calm spread all over me. The winds playing with my hair,tickling my senses so much that the smile stubbornly stayed on my lips for a very long time. Discovery of this place had been very welcoming, especially after a long, hectic and a wasted day at college. Looking up at the blue sky I spread my arms wide open hoping to take in whatever my vision would let me, hugging tight, clinging on to the sky as if for some kinda assurance. I thought to myself, it was not so bad afterall. I could always climb up and come to this place to find that one thing that I missed all day......being myself. The distant lights signify something....I dont know what...maybe they tell me that there is always a beginning to an end.. I could lie on that cold white glittering stone forever...the touch with the cold floor distracts me for a while..takes my mind to a place where I dont have to listen to people who dont make sense,who laugh for no reason, who never have a straight Yes or No for an answer.

The entire apartment under my feet and the interminable sky above..I stand up and walk to the edge..just one step closer and I will be counting micro-seconds before I hit the ground. I keep looking down for a long time waiting to come over the urge to jump.nah!!!dont u think I m upset or given up on life.......I just find it amusing. The steady smile says it all. And now I suddenly realise....had I been home I wouldnt have been able to think all of this..perhaps I would have been doing something menial...most of things that u do are menial(on second thoughts),you just have to prioritise them. And now as I stand here I tell myself this place is no less than a chamber itself with air acting as concrete and the sky which has now turned black, as the roof. Its my chamber where I can look anywhere, think anything, confess, criticise, just anything. Its a place where I need no breathers..Its a place where all my thoughts fall obediently in line as beads would onto a thread,one after another, some coming in bundles, the rest slowly, lazily. Get a grip you would say...hark!! This is where I let my self loose, become vulnerable and stand naked and surrender to the realms of reality. The roof-top does justice to its title which I will give it now-The Utility chamber.

I have sat here for more than an hour now thinking hard,harder. What would happen if tomorrow never came..is that possible??..ha ha..I laugh out aloud without even realising it..its inevitable..and the sun will rise from the east..it has to.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the utility chamber seeems an excellent name to the spot.. however do you connect with reality there.. or the reality that u want to be real given everything was unreal.. do you enter relaity in the utility chamber or do you run out on reality and into the boundless world where a step ahead is just another step and a few moments before suicide.

it still remains the utility chamber and an excelelnt space to find you bereft of all that binds you and makes u unreal. use the breeze of creativity well to discover and unravel yourself. i know there is a beauty inside waiting to be explored.

just smile .. and i'm with you. discover yourself with the utility chamber.

Wandering Soul said...

i ws jus imagining wat a place it wud be!!
its interesting to know tht a palce like this can take u to d real world,d world which i call World!!
but it seems that i n u wud not like to be at that place forever.d place holds meaning only in a while.
n its in a while we feel tht feel!!
enjoy ur new found chamber n lets c wat else it brings out to U!!!

Anonymous said...

realities n wishes (drastic contrasts ) named with comprehensions its amazing ur use of words impresses me.
Do you really want to connect with reality the one that never changes like the tommorow which always comes and becomes today the sun that never changes the path of it travel the reality that shocks that pains the pain slowly so temptin makes u go closer to knowing it more deeply
your volley of thoughts hope never changes and u get closer to the stars that u admired that shine as per there own wish but everytime sends a smile across a million faces
Hope u shall be pen down more of ur thoughts and someday may be a book best of you i believe is yet to come

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