Monday, June 09, 2008

Losing Track of Time, Quite Leisurely So

I'm caught in a state of timelessness. Since my arrival here, in Gethia (Nainital), fog has been a constant companion. Fog that obscures the lofty heights and puts the villages that dot the landscape out of existence. The valleys have suddenly come alive, giving birth and shape to those massless white clouds. They spiral and spread, and a clear day can turn into poetry in minutes. One tends to lose their sense of time when there is nothing but a cloak of white at 5 in the morning, and the same at 7 in the evening. And its a leisure living like so. Friends often feel that a whole month of summer vacations is absurd, they seem a different breed at this line of thought.

It is harder to be sensibly jovial to the children than acting mature to the adults. Kids don't get it. They can't see into the faith and honesty in your eyes when you promise them something for later. They have been fed to animated gestures and sign language, unfortunately. With age they - we all - learn that all the cutesy stuff is an aberration from human nature. First lessons in hypocrisy. Something even unfortunate is when even people beyond their youth still act and respond irresponsibly like such children. Something even harder is frequently having to switch between the child-friendly and family-debate mode, literally with the turn of your head.

Its been raining a lot. I never recall a June starting so in the hills. Flowers abound all around, so do the enticing dewdrops on every edge. Birds sit on naked branches and electricity wires. Its strange why some of them won't take shelter. A sparrow has took to making rounds of the drawing room - it finds easy food, more so coz of children and vibhu around.

A friend msgd over my brother's cellphone, asking if I wanted any drugs. My brother received that msg. Wonder what that was.
X: "Psst...Wanna buy some drugs, kid?"
Shiv: "Who is this?"
X: "Puppies?"
X: "Sorry, Shiv the sms was intended for your elder brother. Until the delinquent gets a phone there's no way to contact him. I assumed it was with him."

I replied to it sometime back. Come to think of it now, I should've told him that nature is enough for my highs.

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