Saturday, June 06, 2009

Ehsaas…

It’s a typical work day .Me racks brain over a tricky enhancement on a VBA based Excel macro. Misses the first evening bus over it .Tries some more...
An hour later,
An ID card swipes...Beep. Red to green to red...
Reaches early to find the bus near empty and its insides, dark and solemn.
A beautiful cyan lights up the tiny mp3 player’s display and dishes out Atif Aslam’s ‘Ehsaas’. Lets hair loose and lies back on the seat by the window, eyes closed, an irrepressible smile playing on my lips …

Dusk is just graying the sky as I stand on the pavement of a busy road with silent traffic and watch the neon signboards and the bright tail lamps of the cars that flow smoothly
on the wide road.
Steam spews out of fresh cream laden coffee as I lean out of the window, after the rain that has bathed the earth outside. Breeze laden with the aroma of wet soil wafts up as the music grows louder with thumping jazz overtones.
A bright orange coloured hot air balloon moves over the ocean’s blue expanse as I strain my eyes to watch the view shielding my face against the sun with one hand.

The bus is now moving over a bridge over a lake, that lies dark and glittering as we glide over it .A gust of wind tugs at my loose hair strands as I look up to the winking stars in the night sky .

....Manzil paas nahi , kya tu mere paas hai ...

My mind plays with pretty pictures captured from my life, like playing with a kaleidoscope. I see in my mind’s eye the green that stretched away from the road till the end of my sight’s reach, as I traveled on a bus along the inter-state highway that leads away from B’lore.I see the night view at Suicide Point from a college trip long ago , a valley and a vast expanse of land before me with light bulbs that looked like floating luminous yellow liquid floating in the night air .I remember losing my breath at these sights …Each vision, a picture post card out of each point of my life…

‘Hey, you dreaming ? ’
I jolt awake from the trance.
‘No daa.. .’

*sigh* back to life ….

7 comments:

Quest said...

Back to life or this is life? :)

Would summarize what every one at work feels after a day@work :)

cm chap said...

"Wannabe" life ????? Wish you for that in next life.

For now get back to tricky or not so tricky VBA enhancement. lol

manoranjini said...

@Quest: this is everyone's summary , huh ? :)

@CM - its done now... :)

Aiswarya said...
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Aiswarya said...

dey.. vattayadey. i know you are a bit diametrical.. but you''re not loosing it are you me dear freind!

manoranjini said...

@aishu:Err...that concern of yours may not be altogether misplaced .... :P

Hari said...

I love Ehsaas!! One awesome song, coupled with the melodious voice of Atif, takes you to another realm!! :-)

"Main ek fard hoon... Ya ek ehsaas hoon...""

Too good!! :-D