Just Imagine

Its 2am in the morning. You're on the tenth floor of a building. Working away late into the night on your laptop. Alone in your bedroom. Sitting on the bed, feeling cold. You're tired, stressed, hungry. Abandoning the laptop, you walk over to your table, rummage in your bag. You find a chocolate, a whole bar of dark chocolate- unopened, uneaten. You take a bite and you savor the bitter-sweet taste of it, its relishing. You reach over and pull up the curtains. Its dark outside, but only just. You can see the orange glow of the street lights below, tiny specks of light shining through the numerous windows of the many buildings around- like stars suspended in mid-air. Speaking of stars, you look up at the sky- its hardly visible. Finishing the chocolate, you venture out of your room. There's no one around. Gathering courage (even though your heart is inevitably beating faster and you are scared) you climb the stairs, 2, 3, 4 storeys higher and you reach the terrace door. You push it open and walk in. Its cold up there. Very cold. Chilling. You're in your pajamas, no blazer, no sweater. You start shivering. You look up at the sky. Its clear, its black (not pitch-black though) and the stars are numerous but not innumerable. Countable maybe; you think. You look at the moon. Its bright and thin. Like those perfectly shaped nails just cut with a nailcutter (the crescent shape). Strange, you wonder. The comparison.You stare at the sky, start counting the stars. And then you see it!!. Right where you are looking. A Shooting Star!! Very bright, suddenly materializing from nowhere. Its big at first, rapidly descending, leaving a trail behind and reducing in size until it disappears- suddenly just like it appeared.You silently make a wish. Someday, maybe years later, you realize the wish has come true. And then you think of that night- the room, the chocolate, the cold, the terrace, the Shooting Star..!!

Wishing you these and many more such experiences. Cheers.!

Submitted By: Chaitra.S, E&E , SJCE Mysore