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Sometime in the 8^th semester…

I was standing outside of my class, and it was around 11-12 pm, (post breakfast)… and I was listening to songs from the BF’s i-pod and the song that started playing was “your body’s a wonderland”.. The day was clouded, with no sun, but no rain either.. and since I was listening to the song for the first time, I could understand only some of the lyrics, and mostly I could understand the music. And with one ear covered with the earphone, and the other not, I could hear the song along with the noise around me.. (it was a break, so mostly everyone were outside of their class) and I could see Shashank and his batch mates outside of Science lab talking and jesting with each other, downstairs, I could see the seniors doing the same… to the right side of my view, downwards, were the Best Friend and her class mates talking outside of their class and around me were my classmates discussing various and numerous things… and in that surrounding, I could hear the various excerpts of everyone’s conversation (cause obviously everyone was very loud and wanted to make everyone around them hear what they are saying) and also the music of the song “your body’s a wonderland”… and everything, it seemed to me, was happening in slow motion.. and the feeling of the oneness with the music, the surrounding and the chatter of everyone was so ….. so…. complete... like the perfect surrounding, the perfect harmony, the perfect situation and circumstance.. like the ending of a movie where almost every character has gone through much turmoil.. either in their lives or in their relationships.. and how in the end, they are at peace.. when everything is settled and silent… where everyone is happy in the end in their own sphere and they look around their surrounding and acknowledge those around them to have gone through what they have themselves gone through, to respect them for that.. and happy in the finality of the situation.. knowing that this is probably the only moment of such stillness (though nothing is still in this picture) and the ending of a long journey.. followed by the break of brief peace and then to the unknown….

Well… I don’t know how much of that makes sense… but I so wanted to write about it for so long…

In retrospect, I think the song which then was so fitting the situation is in fact not appropriate at all… but still at that moment, when  I could only understand the music, and not the lyrics of the song, it was the song that made me look at that picture I have tried to write about above….

Date: 4^th August, 2008

Place :Delhi

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