This and That

While you take so many things in your life for granted; it
takes just a moment’s separation to realize their worth. I cherish his presence
around me and consider it my greatest asset and security, yet I take it as an
essential part of my existence; never stopping to catch my breath and ponder
how I can survive without it. However, it takes just one long evening which
stretches into an overnight stay somewhere else that my heart loses its beats
and nothing else nothing else at all can make me happy. That one night has the
trappings of an eternity and I feel lost, dazed, somber, restless, debilitated
as if a part of my body has been cut off. It is as if someone has cut off the
oxygen supply to my lungs.

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That was about my personal up-close woes. Past so many days, there has not been
a singular good news in the daily papers on the national basis. There is
extreme situation in  J&K; unfortunately Omar Abdullah, who started on
such a hopeful note appears completely clueless and lost, the injustice meted
out to Bhopal Gas tragedy victims at the hands of courts, the Commonwealth
Games kick-offs thoroughly tarnishing the credibility of our country, the
cloudburst in Leh leading to monumental and irreparable loss to tranquil life,
the ship sinking off Bombay. It is a fact that we Indians tend to shake off our
losses with a resilient dignity but certain things need to be tended in quite
the contrary manner. How USA stood up to environmental disasters caused by BP
oil slick should be an important lesson for us since we take our environmental
hazards so softly.

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For rest I shall return later; I have to resuscitate my writing, I have to find
my words through this meandering maze of wordless vacuum that has besieged my
brain. This heart is forever filled with the glue of verbosity, yet it finds no
anchor in the mind and the fingers. 

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