In "The Bucket List", a pretty girl at the bar is telling Morgan Freeman, how her friend climbed the Himalayas.
"Did he hear it ? ", says Freeman.
"Hear what ?" The girl replies.
"The sound of silence. When you are standing at the highest point in the world, they say that you can feel the absolute silence . And then the silence speaks to you. Like the voice of God".
Well, I haven't been to the Himalayas but I get the point. Have you ever been been working , concentrating hard and then suddenly as the power supply is cut, all sounds around you die down ?
Its happens to me quite often. The mechanical crane working behind our college , the buzzz of fans, the whirrrr of desktop processors, and the myriad other sounds that I cant put a name to, just stop.
Its eerie. I can hear everything around me so clearly. The same thing happens at home. What never ceases to amaze me, is how I can hear every second tick away on the wall clock.
And then I realize in those fleeting electricity-less minutes, how fast the second hand is going. I mean, it can t be taking 60 long seconds for one minute, its just zipping around !!
I mean... there I was... at my first day in Fergusson College in 1997, wearing brand new brown Woodland shoes, a new light green checked shirt with sleeves rolled up and new black belt with a golden buckle..... starting the best period of my life.... Did those 2 years just zoom by ?
The one year in Pharmacy.. with more hazy memories than any other year....
The 5 unforgettable years of BDS... the fastest period of my life..
The 9 most professionally satisfying glorious months that followed, of running Dad's clinic and giving it a complete facelift...
Starting MDS.. and now, 2 years of MDS have flashed by which have shown me tremendous highs and lows...
I clearly remember shaving for the first time on my 16th birthday, on the day of my 11th standard final exam. And now im 26. Wow.
And then suddenly without any warning, the lights come back on.. my computer restarts... the fan starts spinning and buzzzing again... the fridge compressor kicks in.. the TV in the hall starts blaring...
and I forget that I was doing some real meaningful thinking.
What a pity.
4 comments:
Hi...I really wish, sometime I could be able to enjoy the sound of silence as you call it. Cause as long as I can remember my mind just seems to be thinking on and on and on ...about something or the other and really seems like an eternity of just thinking.So beleive me Rohit if you think that thinking always is meaningful ,trust me it isnt:-)As far as time just zapping by is concerned you are spot on! cause even i feel that it was just yesterday that I entered GDCH,Nagpur.I still pretty distinctly remember the entire admission procedure the people I meet and so on. I too think that my BDS days have been the most rewarding days of my life. I have enjoyed everything to the hilt from managing the Students council to collecting extracted teeth for our pre-clinicals(we werent allowed to work on the ivory ones).My college has helped me grow so much as an individual and it still does.... my school needs a mention too. When I was preparing for the entrance and took a break in the middle of the studies i just used to sit in our college corridor near the library and wonder as to where I would be in a few days time ..not knowing that I would be fortunate enough to be back here and as time continues to fly the same thoughts cross my mind:-).
Of course you are always thinking.. its the hallmark of all genuises !!!!
Well thanks if you think so but lately i have started to believe that it is the hallmark of people who are a just a little crazy:-)
There is a very thin line between crazy and genius !!! I think you are just about on the edge... :-) :-)
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