Today was a usual morning by all means. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
It started the same way...with my alarm setting me wide awake with its musical frenzy. Like all other mornings, I left the house with the same haste to avoid the possibility of missing my transport, lest I would be late for work. The little children scurried across to school in morning excitement, the same way as always. Morning joggers and elderly groups were seen on the roadside and park benches chatting away animatedly. A few of them as usual sat in solitude absorbing all the news that they could find in the morning daily. The bus conductor was short-tempered and the passengers cribbing, as always. The public transport was crumbling yet again. The street urchins gave their performance of the day at the signals, with the same mechanical approach like always.
There seemed nothing quite extraordinary. Yet, there was something entirely original, absolutely unique about today’s morning. Something genuinely novel about it. It was one of those days that fills you with a new vigour altogether and makes you ... all charged-up to embrace life!
I can’t really pin-point what exactly was so welcoming about the day. But, today’s morning more than anything filled me up with a new-found positivity and zeal. It inspired within me joie de vivre, in the true sense!
I wondered, what was the reason for the generation of this kind of a feeling in me. What was so special in this morning that evoked such a positive and warm experience?
Could be the Sufiana, musical vocals of the Late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan saab, streaming from my ipod into my ears, on my journey to work. Could be the pleasant sun-bathed chill of the early January morning.
Whatever the reason, it triggered an upbeat feeling in me…a feeling that said…the day is mine!
Sometimes, I guess, somethings in life don't find an explaination. You can't really reason their existence but nevertheless, they serve the purpose for which they come to life.
Today's morning was just one such inexplicable, intriguing yet fascinating force that passed off but left its sparkling footprints through my entire day!
So...Morning blues?... Now whatever's that?!
2 Wisecrack(s):
That’s an interesting article there!
I really loved the way you have brought out the irony of the situation, wherein, the monotony of routine and the force that breaks this monotony co-exist. That is what life is about after all isn't it?
Often, for no apparent reason at all there are changes in our mood or frame of mind and we are just not able to figure out what caused that change. Makes one wonder if we are really the smartest creatures on this earth. How well do we really understand ourselves and our surroundings? Humbling isn't it?
Good god ..... Shikha can be philosophical too ..... this is an eye-opener for me.
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