Please read Part 1 before reading this
“What time is it” she asked.
Time is Eternal. No one knows for how long it existed. But 13.7
billion years ago something happened. Collision of parallel universes which
were separated by fourth dimension of space might have caused which we now know
as Big Bang. Or a fission of an universe into two might have also caused it. The Big Bang caused space and time in our universe to expand creating
the illusion of beginning of time-space. The clock of our universe started ticking
at the moment of big bang and has been ever since running. We humans use a 24 hour
clock for our convenience based on the rotation of the earth on its own axis
which never actually is 24 hours. Our earth sometimes rotates faster and
sometimes slower! Thankfully there is uniform sunlight around tropic of cancer
throughout the year avoiding another confusion of daylight savings. For now,
the sun had created shadows whose sizes were roughly about 1/3rd of
the original objects. Based on which he deduced it was around high noon. Then
had a look at the bulky watch he was wearing and said
“11:15”
While he was climbing down the stairs, a tiny string like filament of vibrating energy deep inside his heart was giving him new feeling and fresh smile with each vibration. If only he would not close his eyes at
the right time!
Spring 2005
T -7 sec: He had to make a decision NOW. It was like now or never. He was
about to make the decision. But.....
T -5 sec: Too close! His mind is trying to figure out all the possible
options
T -2 sec: Point of no return is long gone.
T -1 sec: His eyes closed as part of the preparation
T -0 sec: IMPACT!!!
T +1 sec: nothing
T +2 sec: nothing
T +3 sec: He opened his eyes. Lying on the ground, he tried to see if he can
move his hands
T +10 sec: By this time there were some people around him. He rolled towards
his left and went of his knees and tried to stand up.
T -1 day: In preparation for the next day’s bike ride, he went to buy few
stuffs. While riding on his bike he saw helmet shops. He had traveled on that
road many times before. But he stopped there this time, took his helmet out and
had a look at it. Something inside him told it is not the right fit. So he parked
his bike in front of the shop and went in to buy a new helmet. He was about to realize that it was one of his best decisions.
T - Few hours: It was early morning. Piercing the fog he was racing through
the empty streets of the city. He aimed for the roads which took him out of the
city. By this time he was in 5th gear at full throttle
T -5 min: He has been driving for hours now. He stopped just once to have a delicious
‘Idly’ as breakfast. Concrete forest is long gone. Crowded streets are long
gone.4 lane highway is long gone. Empty single lane roads are treating him now.
A journey of an hour more will take him to his desired destination
T -1 min: He could see next few hundred feet of road had multiple curves and
thick forest lies beyond them.
T -10 sec: He saw a sharp curve right ahead of him.
T -7 sec: It was the time of the decision to either slow down or bank the
bike a bit to the right to negotiate the curve. He was about to make the
decision. But…
T -5 sec: Too close! His mind is trying to figure out all the possible
options to escape from the situation
T -1 sec: His bike is already off the road and its tires are already stuck in
the sand. Inertia said go! But the lack of firm grip of tires with sand say no!
The momentum that he carried was still trying to push him and made bike’s rear
tire veer to the left a bit. Since the tires have stopped rotating, there are no
gyroscopic forces to help him keep the balance. With the momentum enough to
carry him few more feet, he and his bike started tilting towards their left
T - 0 sec: the IMPACT!!
T +3 Hours: He had reached his destination driving the same bike. But he
drove last couple of hours very slowly. He and his bike escaped the impact with
minor scratches. Sipping his evening tea, looking at the scratches on the left
side of his new helmet lying on the table, he still wondered what made him not
to take any decision seconds before he reached the point of no return.
Autumn 2005
On a cold rainy day, sitting
alone near the window, he is staring at the drizzle outside. Butterflies in the
stomach from past two days that made him think he was having a gas problem
seems to be something else now. Why does it become very hard to make some life
decisions he wondered. May be because ones entire life depends on that
particular decision. Thoughts like “what if I am wrong now”, “will I get a
better one in future”, “Should I learn from my past”, “what if she says no”, and
“what have I gotten myself into” are running through his mind back to back. He had
spent hours thinking what to do, but still could not come to a conclusion. With all the thoughts still running through
his mind, he came near the window and leaned towards the window and pressed his forehead against the window while resting his mildly shivering cold
palms on the window pane. He tried to recall all the incidents involving her.
Once the trip down the memory lane was over in few seconds, he tried to look at
the heavens for some help which made tip of his nose touch the cold window surface. He
then let all the warm air inside his lungs in one go and took a step back and
the mark he left on the window brought a huge smile on his face. The warm air coming out of his lungs
condensed and showed up as mist on the window as soon as it touched cold window
surface. The continuous influx of warm
air started expanding the area of the mist on the window. Since his nose was
blocking the expansion of the mist above it, the mist expanded on the both
sides of the point on which his nose was touching the windows forming a curvy
pattern. When he steps backs after letting go all the air in his lungs. What
does he see on the window? Voila! A perfect cardioid! (It does work! Try creating your own cardioid
on a window or mirror surface!! ). And inside that tiny shape he saw her beautiful
face. His heart had reached its lowest level of entropy. He had made the
decision. He was about to realize that it was one of his best decisions. He wrote the name on the mist he had made on the window with his forefinger
and picked up his phone to make a call. Only first letter of the name entirely
filled the fast fading tiny heart on the window.
Summer 2005
The nonseasonal heavy rains which started
couple of minutes ago had washed away his dripping sweat of few minutes. It is
all liquid with dynamic viscosity on his face now. The heavy rains has not
deterred the tough boys a bit. He stands there, couple of feet in front of the rectangular
white metal structure with a height of 8 feet and width of 24 feet. He has both
his hands raised above with his palms stretched and slightly bent towards the
pole. A ball of about 28 inch circumference with 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons is
dropping fast from the sky above him, while his eyes are looking at the 10
people from both teams in front of him. While the ball is falling towards him,
minute droplets of rainwater are falling on the ball from a curvy angle,
forming a bigger droplet and bouncing back in the air. The ball falls directly
on his bent palms and bounces off, stopping its vertical fall and starts its
journey towards the right foot of the captain of opposition team slowly
reducing its height from the ground while his palms slowly comes to straight
position from the bent position. The ball reaches the right foot of the opposition
team captain and as soon as it touches his right foot, the captain’s right foot
goes back in air while guy in front of the goal post is still shouting
something. By pressing his left foot firmly on the ground, the captain from the
opposition team gathers all the energy he could and lifts his right foot. The
goal keeper realizes what the captain from opposition’s team is about to do and
shouts “he is going to take a shot at goal. Don’t allow him to shoot”. Perhaps
he is too late. Opposition team’s captain kicks the ball with all the energy he
garnered. The ball heads straight towards the goal. The goal keeper is alert
enough to lift his arms with his palms spread out to block the ball. The ball
bounces off the palms of the goal keeper and goes high in the air. All this
happened 5 minutes ago. In the last minute, If the goal keeper decided to not
run towards his right, if only the ball did not deflect from goal keeper’s own
defender’s knee and bounced towards the left corner of the goal post, and if only
the goal keeper had dived towards his left instead of resigning to the fate,
goal keeper’s team might have won the match and emerged as champions. Despite
being weaker of the two teams on paper.
Feb 2035
Sudden buzzing of loud alarm
startled him and woke him up from the trip down the memory lane. But the
incident which disturbed him was not a surprise for him. In face he was waiting
for it. For years! He always knew this was going to happen. But about a week
ago he realized that it is only a matter of weeks. He saw the blinking most important word and decided it was ‘Time’.
To Be Concluded...
No comments:
Post a Comment