Tuesday, January 11, 2011

And I saw two of me. . .

That small measurement of time just left me lost in thoughts. I saw another of me, he was moving, moving away.

The other day I was travelling by the Metro and I didn't get  to sit. Obviously standing, I was facing not towards the outview, but the track. I was getting bored; very much so.


Another train passed by; I saw myslelf in the huge glass pane of the other train as well as in that of the one in which I was travelling. And I saw two of me; both travelling in  opposite directions. It was a moment of enlightenment somehow.  I felt strange initially and then stranger! It was as if I had achieved something. I know it sounds insane but that is what it was. I felt like I discovered a hidden secret. I felt ecstatic for some reason. This momentary cognitive trigger was to leave back a major realization within me.

My mind from nowhere drew an analogy between the real and the surreal...I realized how often in reality too we are moving in two absolutely opposite directions at the same time; doing contrasting things, intentionally or without intentions, for selves or for others, happily or unhappily, with excitement or with the lack of it...It just doesn't stop! Sometimes you are not what you really are from within; you are just a pretentious shadow deceiving people.  We are doing things we don't want to and are not being able to do things that we desire to, and there's nothing we can do about it.

These times when we are being torn apart, some manage to strech, others break. Just like the two of me running in counter directions ,things happen, but everything is momentary, passes, sooner or later. No matter what complications come, I am always full of hope that they will be done and dusted and I will look back at them as just another experience. This realization worked a big deal for me !