I was walking down an empty road.
The cheerful chirping
of birds ,for your ears
Calm roads, plush greenery all around, for your eyes
Piping hot Bhajji’s, for your tongue
Pleasant fragrance of aromatic flowers, for your nose and
Cool breeze blowing across your face…
When all the senses are tingled at the same time, the
experience is out of this world. But sadly none of this happened to me.
I just happened to be walking down an empty road, thinking
about those wonderful sensations. After
having the five senses wala thought, my sixth sense (not the common sense
but nonsense) asked me to do something to atleast get close to that.
Sonu Nigam singing to A R Rahman’s music , for my ears
Bright colored houses in a row, for my eyes
Minty cool Chloromint for my tongue.
Vicks inhaler for my nose and
Cool breeze blowing across your face (Hell Yeah!!)
Was all that I could manage…(pardon the product placement which comes to blogs too)
That aside, I was along walking at a slow pace. It is rare to find an empty road in Bangalore. But today it was. I neither know the reason nor want to know but it was certainly quite unusual. I could sense the creepy feeling growing around me. It
was not dark but was quite late in the evening.
It was then I saw, the scene which sent a chill down my
spine.
Five snakes were crawling on the middle of the road . Not dogs, cows or even buffaloes but snakes. You read it right SNAKES, all five of them !!
I was sure they were cobras as I could see the unmistakable
design on their hoods. Now I knew what was unusual but what I did not know was what
to do now. I could see that the snakes were just crawling here and
there doing nothing. Mustering all my courage, chanting Hanuman Chalisa I moved forward. Till today I could not find a reason as to why I did not go
back and run away in opposite direction. I went towards them carefully planning my steps to keep
equal distance from each of them and miraculously managed to cross all five of
them.
Fortune favours the brave. I was the hero. I was thrilled.
When normal people panic at the sight of cockroaches, I managed to cross five dangerous snakes. This had to go down in the history of my life as my greatest
achievements. The fear had not yet subsided. But I felt the thrill of it. And
then when I returned back to normalcy I decided to move as the place was not
safe any longer. Now I started walking fast. I had to get out of this danger
zone as fast as possible.
It was then I saw, the scene which sent a chill down my spine.
No, it was not another set of snakes.It was one of the cutest girl I had ever seen in my life !!
My background music suddenly changed from a fast disco track
to a romantic one.
Guitars started playing
Flowers started falling from the skies.
Orange Maple leaves started to fly in the breeze, Mohabbatein
style
style
Unaware of all this , she kept walking , pushing the 4
strands of hair from her face to the back of her ear. I completely forgot what had happened forty two seconds earlier.
Or rather forgot for few moments only. Then it struck to me, she was going to take the same route.
In another fifty meters she would come face to face with those dangerous
crawling reptiles. I had to save this super-cute damsel in distress. It is not
usually I talk to some random girl I meet. Infact I had never done that but today was
anyhow the unusual day for me. The day when I had conquered my fears.
I stopped her. She quizzically looked at me. Her eyes were mesmerizing. She said nothing. I told her about the impending danger ahead and to avoid
that road. She did not believe me at first but then I switched on the
halo (which suddenly had gone off fifty two seconds ago) behind my head and that angelic circle of
light above my head to show that I was her guardian angel. She was now tensed. I asked her to calls someone from home to
help her. I was indeed enchanted by her and wanted to help her but my
practical mind won the competition and told that the sane thing to do at that moment was to
escape. She regained her composure and asked how I could manage to
cross them. I, being a master story teller, added ample masala and told her a
gripping story of how I achieved that unbelievable feat !!
She listened silently ,lifted her head and with great
confidence said ,” I shall do the same”. I could see the spark in her eyes, but since I had fire
elsewhere a minute back, I wished her good luck, made sure no one has seen me (
lest I get caught , if something unfortunate happens to her)
and left.
The only sound I could hear was the sound of her
heels hitting the ground with great confidence.
I controlled myself from having a last look at the girl
before forgetting her for quite
some time but then had her looks were so hypnotizing that I had to turn to see
how she would escape the deadly track.
It was then I saw, the scene which sent a chill down my spine.
She was nowhere.
I strained my eyes to see if there was any place she could
turn and go, but no. It was not just possible to disappear in thin air.When I am here , waiting for her to cry for help, so that I can go and save her, how can she escape unhurt. When my brain said to forget it and escape , my heart was curious , and Aamir Khan said "Talaash" !! ( well, its releasing today , so had to put it somewhere).
I started walking towards the danger zone to find out what other escape routes were there. Slowly, silently, carefully. Where was she ??
I started walking towards the danger zone to find out what other escape routes were there. Slowly, silently, carefully. Where was she ??
I ran and ran till I fainted, far away from that mysterious snake infested place after
I saw six snakes in that earlier spot .
