Chapter 23: Patience on Test
March 5, 2011
Three days away from freedom. The mind has now started wandering between possibilities and impossibilities. Giving me company though are books, blogging, movies, music and definitely my passion for writing. I extremely enjoyed watching two amazing documentaries on the romantic lives of John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. The other documentary threw light on the painful & struggling life of Marilyn Monroe. I’ve been completely besotted by this blonde actress. So much so that I still remember watching every movie of hers during a festival announced on Zee Studio two years back. Her story was immensely moving and inspiring. The most beautiful thing about both the documentaries was the connection between the two. Marilyn had a whirlwind romantic affair with John F. Kennedy and his younger brother. Jacqueline was all the way aware of this. Marilyn’s story is that of how a beautiful woman was exploited just because she was charming & blessed with the natural gift of being extremely seductive. Today on a weekend, I would have preferred traveling to some far off place and spend time photographing. But due to my immobile status, I had to put my passion on rest for yet another day. My mind has started galloping towards March 8. My orthopedic surgeon has promised me, the plaster will be removed on this day. But I will still not be allowed to make it to my office. Not before March 14, is what he had to say. But what matters to me is the freedom. The moment my plaster is removed; I am going to take my bike out of my garage and vroom around. It’s being lying unattended, ignored and immobile just like me. I love my bike more than anything else. She has helped me travel beautifully to my desired destinations. I am waiting for the moment, when she will be taking me all the way to the coasts of Konkan in the second week of June. Now that my patience is on test, I just can’t wait to go mobile again.
Two amazing movies, I watched today:
Shiver – A Spanish supernatural thriller on Lumiere movies. It was extremely scary and also indirectly emphasized the fact that we are doing a hell lot of injustice by cutting jungles. The animals are also hurt by this injustice and they will one or the other way hold the human mind hostage & make them do things, they as animals have been doing so far. We are not far from transforming into four legged blood thirsty beasts.
50 FIRST DATES – Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore simply were too adorable in this romantic flick. It is the most amazing movie where a guy comes to know of his partner’s traumatic way of living with the problem of short term memory loss. The concept of short term memory loss though was dealt with more seriously by Christopher Nolan in Memento and blatantly copied by A. Murugadoss to create an Indian Ghajini. But originality rarely has a substitute. The movie 50 First Dates also had a message in it that no matter what the circumstances are in life, if you love somebody – be by his/her side to support life.
Chapter 24: Accident Averted
March 6, 2011
Mom has always been asking me to be cautious while taking bath. But today time was not in my favor. I slipped dangerously in the bathroom but was saved. My plaster got completely wet and I found myself trembling again. Because I couldn’t fathom the fact that exactly after one month, I literally escaped being hurt again. Had I not immediately held myself together, I would have definitely fractured my right arm and sprained my neck. This incident has left me miffed and mom worried. I know these are the times, when we want to stay away from superstitions. But they come knocking on the door. This painful impact that I luckily escaped from falling prey to gave rise to suspicions that something is just not right. Is there an evil eye that’s prying on me? Or am I prying on the evil itself? I am sure, I will come out of this and rejoin forces that help me think creatively. In this entire immobile phase, my fondness for reading, writing and watching foreign language movies has only grown. Also I’ve developed immense interest in catching up with travel shows and browsing websites, which invite freelancers who want to contribute their travel writings and get it published. I am keeping my fingers crossed but am still left shaken by another accident that I successfully averted. Time might not have been on my side during these accidents but the invisible hand of God saved me from serious damage.
Chapter 25: Conversations with Best Friend
March 7, 2011
My best friend Nikhil had wanted to meet me ever since I met with the fatal accident. Some how due to unavoidable commitments, he couldn’t make it. Finally he made it my residence, just a day before my long awaited freedom. From the moment, he set his foot we just conversed, laughed and continued taking a walk down the memory lane. From second week of college till graduation and thereafter, it has been 18 years, we have seen our friendship only grow. Today he works as a Development Officer with LIC and I am into advertising. But our paths were never the same in the past. He was the one pursuing a career in creativity and I was the one pursuing a career in official administration job. But as destiny had it, our paths changed. So today he came to meet me to cheer me up. He had planned to leave in an hour. But some old memories just consumed us for a little over two hours and finally when he made his mind to leave, he hugged me and said, “Let’s go to Goa again to celebrate what we call - A LIFE OF SUPREME SINGLEHOOD”. I said amen to that and I wrapped up the day dreaming about a tomorrow, which will gift me, my FORBIDDEN FREEDOM FROM FRACTURE.
Chapter 26: Mobile AGAIN
March 8, 2011
FINALLY FREEDOM FROM FRACTURE
I spent the entire morning and noon and the evening waiting for the clock to tick 7.30 pm.
The time for my freedom had come. In the afternoon, I had seen a dream that was a medley of all the activities I’ve indulged in during my immobile days. Right from story telling to blogging, to watching television, to getting entertained by foreign language movies to writing short thriller stories and to the many inspirations, I imbibed from the dynamically changing world around me. My elder uncle ferried me to my orthopedic surgeon’s clinic on his Honda Activa. The moment, I entered, I asked the surgeon – WILL YOU GRANT ME MY FREEDOM TODAY? He smiled and replied, “Today is the day you shall be relieved of those frustrating days and thoughts”. I was taken to the mini operation theatre. The guy, who was entrusted the responsibility of cutting my plaster, showed me an instrument, which threatened to cut deep into my skin. But that was a gimmick to break the ice. He just made me hold the instrument and touched the blade with his bear hand. I was shocked to realize, it was just a vibrating instrument that can only manage to pierce through a plaster and not the skin. Much to my relief, my leg was set free of the 2.5 kg plaster. My surgeon asked me to get an X-Ray done. The image proved that my hairline fracture had healed. But my surgeon advised me to resume work only from Monday, March 14, 2011. I agreed to the series of physiotherapeutic exercises, he recommended. And he signed off saying that I should avoid jogging till the end of April 2011. Thereafter he promised, I can go completely footloose. Having tasted freedom on a very special day (WOMAN’S DAY) and one of my best friend Mansha’s daughter’s birthdays, I walked free out of the clinic and arrived home to hug mom. Victory did come at a cost. But I shall cherish it for a lifetime………
Loads of love, 100 gms of life and fistful of luck to all who have helped me stay inspired, motivated and restless... craving for more out of life…!
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