LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Disclaimer : The following is not a love story by any means.Any hint of such notions is completely ill-founded, none are meant ! There's not really much in my love life ( if at all there's any).
Without wasting much time I'll come to the point.Today at the 8th Auto Expo, currently being staged at Pragati Maidan, in the Maruti Stall, I beheld BEAUTY! And was transfixed for an eternally long time.And in the haze of billowing smoke-screen and falling confetti I lost track of the present.....
I noticed this girl , who alongwith some others were part of the dance troupe being employed at this stall ( for quite obvious reasons ) , and I kept staring at her all throughout the performance , even failing to notice her ensemble which my accompanying friends later brought to my notice. For those few precious moments I totally lost track of time & all, forgetting everything around me .... just had her image in front of my eyes.And there she continued her magic & histrionics, playing with my mind & soul.I subconsciously remember humming along with her!
I'm not saying I've fallen in love ( not that easy, ain't it) or just another infatuation, but what was there, was plain-speak BEAUTY. Her uncomplicated smile and so much enjoying whatever she was doing was mesmerising to say the least.Those few moments of beauty was so soothing, so feel-good, so gratifying it sort of lifted a weight off me ( I don't know of what, but I felt so relaxed & self).And on the way back while sitting beside the window, all to myself ( I somehow managed to keep aloof from my fellow mates as I desperately wanted to be with myself then) I enjoyed one of the most wonderful bus ride of my life, a sensation hard to describe unless and until one has a hands-on experience.Just how a small event can have such lasting impressions! I just hope such epiphanies do keep happening, enough to savor in a lifetime.
Just to remind that I'm a mere mortal; even GOD bows to Beauty !
And to lay claim to the disclaimer, a few tid-bits from the so-memorable (for reasons all other than automobiles) Auto Expo :
- a good-enough fashion show ( with a garrulous,cliched host)
- a very forgettable cameo by Parikrama, which must have made , like me, every other Pink Floyd ardent fan furious for making an a** out of "Another Brick In The Wall" ( and I made sure I had a full dose of it when I got back, to do away with any after effects of that horrible rendition)
- the "Autopsyche" & "Yamaha" stalls : only standouts
- a bunch of Sardars with "imagine what you can" color turbans , all pondering over a Maruti 800
- "Look, it's the same as our's !" : a middle-aged man to his daughter, pointing to the showcased Maruti 800.
Disclaimer : The following is not a love story by any means.Any hint of such notions is completely ill-founded, none are meant ! There's not really much in my love life ( if at all there's any).
Without wasting much time I'll come to the point.Today at the 8th Auto Expo, currently being staged at Pragati Maidan, in the Maruti Stall, I beheld BEAUTY! And was transfixed for an eternally long time.And in the haze of billowing smoke-screen and falling confetti I lost track of the present.....
I noticed this girl , who alongwith some others were part of the dance troupe being employed at this stall ( for quite obvious reasons ) , and I kept staring at her all throughout the performance , even failing to notice her ensemble which my accompanying friends later brought to my notice. For those few precious moments I totally lost track of time & all, forgetting everything around me .... just had her image in front of my eyes.And there she continued her magic & histrionics, playing with my mind & soul.I subconsciously remember humming along with her!
I'm not saying I've fallen in love ( not that easy, ain't it) or just another infatuation, but what was there, was plain-speak BEAUTY. Her uncomplicated smile and so much enjoying whatever she was doing was mesmerising to say the least.Those few moments of beauty was so soothing, so feel-good, so gratifying it sort of lifted a weight off me ( I don't know of what, but I felt so relaxed & self).And on the way back while sitting beside the window, all to myself ( I somehow managed to keep aloof from my fellow mates as I desperately wanted to be with myself then) I enjoyed one of the most wonderful bus ride of my life, a sensation hard to describe unless and until one has a hands-on experience.Just how a small event can have such lasting impressions! I just hope such epiphanies do keep happening, enough to savor in a lifetime.
Just to remind that I'm a mere mortal; even GOD bows to Beauty !
And to lay claim to the disclaimer, a few tid-bits from the so-memorable (for reasons all other than automobiles) Auto Expo :
- a good-enough fashion show ( with a garrulous,cliched host)
- a very forgettable cameo by Parikrama, which must have made , like me, every other Pink Floyd ardent fan furious for making an a** out of "Another Brick In The Wall" ( and I made sure I had a full dose of it when I got back, to do away with any after effects of that horrible rendition)
- the "Autopsyche" & "Yamaha" stalls : only standouts
- a bunch of Sardars with "imagine what you can" color turbans , all pondering over a Maruti 800
- "Look, it's the same as our's !" : a middle-aged man to his daughter, pointing to the showcased Maruti 800.
posted by Himadri at Sunday, January 15, 2006
4 Comments:
u sound enchanted, and it's sweetly mesmerising as many would understand.
I don't know if it's that strong, but reminds me of the "thunderbolt" concept!:)
[phoenix]enchanted I definitely was.I don't know about 'many' others but I do get the feeling that you did really got hold of the emotions.Thanks for the appreciation.
It's not that strong if that's what you meant, but good enough for the occasion.Something hard to come by in this 'dog-eat-dog' world.
[phoenix]Can I take the liberty of extrapolating the presence of a comment to this post as a reminder of the ressurection of the phoenix ?
Well, I liek to think I'm good with ppl, and emotions.
U're welcome still.
And I understand what u mean by the good enough.
i wish u see her again smtime.
smtimes unthinkable unexpected things can give us suchba high in life!
it wasnt really a reminder. just that i was reading/commentin that day signed in as phoenix, rather than sm other name/ anon
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