Your board exams start the next month ,but you don't feel like studying .Then again you Never feel like studying.You decide to move out of the room, into the the veranda and you look the bright yellow orb in the sky.Your mind starts to wander again, but before you know it, your eyes start to hurt, you come to your senses and you close them .The afterglow persists for a little while longer and you try to bask in its glory while its there. You go inside, and pick up the fat book and try to read,but you cant .The yellow orb has done something the book couldn't.You try concentrating on the book again ,it doesn't work,though.Time should have taught you better,You realize its futile to resist now and you give in.
You know a thing or two about the orb or so you think atleast.You know for instance, that its called the sun but perhaps more importantly you realize how perfect every thing about it had to be to allow your existence.Had it been just a little bigger,nearer or farther , you and every thing you could ever relate to ,simply wouldn't exist.Lady luck had been nice to you, but since she's called a lady you know she wouldn't be nice for ever. The sun would die one day.Some seven and a half billion years from now the fusion reactions keeping it alive would cease completely and it would then be reduced to an earth sized object filled with diamonds and strange rocks. Something they'd like to call a white dwarf.But nothing that was ever related to you would see any of this because just five hundred million years from now,life on earth would cease to exist.You wait there. This strikes you somewhere deeper than it should have.The death of human race would also mean the death of every human being that ever existed.Einstein would die ,as would homer(the poet), Homer(simpson),garfield,Jim davies,Jim Morrison, Cato and even Megan fox .But more importantly for you, you would die.
You had always wondered why people had kids, they bite , scratch and pee and by the time they grow up they don't care about their parents anymore.With time you've begin to understand why.Its not just the cute baby photographs one gets to click and then show off to people.The thing is people don't want to die. .They know they will die someday , and that's why they want to leave behind something that wont. A book,a photograph , a memory or even a strand of genetic material does the trick but only as long as the human race itself survives.The entite purpose of human existence is to perpetuate itslef.At the end of the day ,you too wish that some part of you would survive,that some little fragment would escape the absolute void. ,but you know that with the death of the last human being .Every thing that was ever "you" would hurtle down to sweet oblivion.You coudn't allow that,now could you.
Somebody would have to do something about it.Moving out of the earth seems like the most logical thing to do.As the sun gets older it'll get bigger and hotter and would soon burn the earth to cinders. However this would have a flip side. The outer dwarf planets which had till now been barren -icy desserts would start to melt.Some might even have liquid water.A little bit of terraforming and you'd might find some part of yourself in Pluto or Ceres.You woudn't like the place much , but then again you wouldn't even have to.
You begin to feel better now, like every one does when they finish a puzzle and that's why you've always liked puzzles specially the big ones that have the fate of humanity hanging on them,but before you could savor the moment long enough your door bell rings. Reality dawns on you or rather hits you with a bang on your face.You curse yourself for wasting so much time.You should have studied .You needed to,but before you could think more the bell rings again.You blurt out a few curses but hope that nobody heard you.
You open the door , its your neighbor again he tells you how you waste so much water. How the water tanki is empty because of you ,You smile politely ,you even pseudo-apologize but you bang the door as hard as you possibly could.You don't hate your neighbor you just hate him disturbing you.You hate reality , and how it seems to blow great dreams away.You make your way to bathroom ,you see that you forgot to turn off the shower.'The bastard was right" ,you think.You don't bother turning it off though instead you lie down ,make a pillow out of that dusty fat book and drift off to sleep .Before you fall asleep though you allow your self one final grin ,a grin that said reality could go fuck itself.
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I am not going to post anything for quite some time now,They'd prolly book me for human rights violations if did.Take care.Ciao.
too bad the door bell rang... was just bout to get a glimpse of how life on pluto/ceres would be .
ReplyDeleteLol.Thanks for the comment.I don't exactly get to many of them down here.
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ReplyDeletehilarious mahn. ur sense of thought is as sarcastically negative as it should be. :P
and as for dying, well its just something else.
love the temp tho. totally goes with ur writing.
ps: mona sang the song. now u read.
ReplyDeletetell me whats curtained behind it. u mean something by it ryt?
@raj.Welcome to my blog.Finally people like something.:) :).
ReplyDeleteDont you remember, the "ding ,dong mona sing a song "gingle they used to air sometime ago?.I always wondered what happened after mona sang her song.
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ReplyDeletefinally i got the reaction thingy...n yea i really like ur blog :) -ur ever-critical critic :P
ReplyDelete"ever critcal critic"-Rofl.
ReplyDeleteBrilliance in patches,genius in parts,talent in pieces and inspiration in some others-putting all the pieces of this puzzle together has been a real privilege.......hopefully it will be a frequently recurring indulgence
ReplyDeleteTry being human sometime , i have a feeling you might like it.
ReplyDeleteyo lord..good to see you back, ranting and bitching as is your wont. Your rants have a lyrical quality about them. and reality is a bitch. Thou shalt take her from behind.
ReplyDeleteEccentric thoughts and good depth of perception...that's what i liked.
ReplyDeleteIf human race IS reduced to cinders though...the death of Homer Simpson would be more of a concern to me, than the death of Homer the poet. and yes ofcourse...Megan Fox is worth the mention.
But what really caught my fancy was this one line that read:
"you hate reality, and how it seems to blow great dreams away"
@lord.Welcome hither. Your comments mean the world to me , keep reading.
ReplyDelete@ payel. Glad you liked it .
great thought @devarchan.....i quite liked it and good to know that i am not the only one getting philosophical before my exams..
ReplyDeleteYou know, I particularly like this article a lot since it reminded me of snippets of similar thoughts I had read here and there. First came the memory of ‘death-of-a-star’ GK fact from class-5. Then, reflections from Guy de Maupassant like... “Is it not strange that people can laugh, amuse themselves, be joyful under that eternal certainty of death?” or, “We are nothing but eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which reblossom as soon as they fade.” Maybe it has absolutely no relation to your current story, but somehow it did remind me of the concept of absurdity of life and the views of Albert Camus. Specially with your “Everything that was ever "you" would hurtle down to sweet oblivion.”
ReplyDeleteMy most faaavourite line from this one: “You had always wondered why people had kids, they bite , scratch and pee and by the time they grow up they don't care about their parents anymore.”
Another line that keeps on coming back to me: “some little fragment would escape the absolute void.”
Lady luck. :P
It’s pretty amazing how you always manage to bring in this unrequited love and jilted lover melodrama into your stories and divinings.. they add this humor flavor to your creations!
Also it’s wonderful how you’ve expressed that Einstein, Homer, Jim Morrison still continue to live in us.
The first four paragraphs are more captivating. You make the readers ponder over your words, their eyebrows knit in brooding entreaty, and they try going back to all death-of-a-star knowledge they must have amassed.
But your neighbor accusing you could’ve been more dramatic- or hilarious. Again, the denouement occurs all too quick.
There are little tense and typo errors I believe. Like, it should’ve been “With time you’ve begun to understand” or “With time you begin to understand”; but I’m sure you know these already!
Then, “finish” doesn’t effectively portray the private moment of pride upon cracking what might have seemed the most intriguing mystery ever. Or the sense of fulfilment, the shadow of joyous exultation that lurks somewhere in this realization. “finish” has a mark of casual acceptance.
Towards the end, just as you had in the beginning, you manage to bring in, skillfully, the unillustrious drag of everyday life, how today seems an original of yesterday’s rough draft. The last line is perfect. Just perfect. One of the most important aspect of short stories is their last lines, and surely, you excel at that!
I have always had this temptation of coming here and fixing all that(the grammar,the punctuation,the corny usage) if not chucking it all down to oblivion.The reason I have managed to stop myself from doing it,is to preserve an absoultely honest,no bullshit account of what I was like as a child.Memories seem do a terrible,job of it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I realise that. :)
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I did criticize is because you told me I dint much for your Perfect Crime.
Given the gifted writer you are, I am in no position to dissect your articles. :)
Keep writing.