Running Along the Rainbow
Searching for the creator to Bow
I ran, I ran and I ran…..
I came back to Bangalore after a long vacation of 5 days. Vacation is a time for me to sit back, relax and introspect about the things I am doing. In more popular words, Idle mind and hence Devil’s workshop!!! This time in the devil’s workshop the topic which was burnt on the oven; the Bangalore Mechatronics… How I am becoming a machine…
So it was finally decided that I will have to write a blog on this. Yes do anything about it but write a blog! To be honest, I did start off also. But then, luckily this happened.
I went for a jog just as my mechanical routine demands me to do so to stay fit. Even though my mind said rest as you haven’t has sleep, my heart said go and run. For once I listened (sorry for the Filmi isstyle… I have been watching them a lot). So here I am in the “Mini Cricket Ground” near my apartment. It is lush green with a small crude cricket pitch in the middle. Some 6 children are playing cricket. They were using the wall as stumps and playing in a pitch bigger even by international standards!!! I started running. The Sun was shinning mildly as it was already 5:45pm in Bangalore. As I ran with my head down, it started drizzling. Slowly the drizzle increased. Unlike me, I was enjoying the rain this day. Suddenly the boys playing; shouted…. “Rainbow… Rainbow”….
I ran at full speed and reached their side!! Ah ha… there it was…All Seven colours… VIBGYOR meekly visible… I was awed by the sight… As I stood there, the rain suddenly stopped and the colours started growing richer and richer. I decided to take another sprint around the ground. I ran, this time faster so that I can reach the other side sooner. As I reached, I felt a surge in energy. I was in a trance, as if I was being plugged to something enticing. As I gazed at the sky again, I thought my eyes betrayed me; I was seeing a rainbow duplet; two rainbows one over the other. Rubbing my eyes just to confirm that it wasn’t my eyes’ blemish as I stood there, my thought process stagnated. For once my mind didn’t rebel this stagnation. I just lied down there on the grass watching the rainbows…
After a while, I got up and started running again with my hands wide open embracing the drizzle that had started again. I went on and on and stopped only when my body said no more, you will collapse now!!!
This experience ended the mechatronics discussion of the devil’s workshop. I realized that to stop such discussions in the workshop, all one needs to do is stop once in a while and enjoy the little things in life…
Little things like a rainbow, a butterfly chase, a wave and thus a smile on a small child’s face, the poor jokes with old friends, the list just continues….
So finally the hypothesis “Man is a Machine” was disproved as I ran along the Rainbow…As I ran along the Rainbow….
