Tuesday, May 02, 2006

A speck?

Speck

This pic was taken last weekend on the ECR, coming back from a long drive and you bet I loved taking it.

I love flying. Sitting next to the window, looking at the night sky that is nothing but an envelope of blackness, of nothingness, and of everything. I have splurged on flight tickets only to feel this. When I look down from above, a couple of steps above from everything that is this world, the numerous lives that are lived and gone in a minute, when the whole world of yours is nothing but the flight and the feeling that your entire life is dependent on a couple of pilots and a few pieces of metal, welded together in the name of machine, it gives me goose bumps. Not just a goose bump, but the realisation that NOTHING REALLY MATTERS, all that matters is the minutes you are alive to enjoy the life. A look at the distant stars reminds me of places that exist beyond our knowledge, of lives that may exist, and the fact that we anything but a simple speck in the bigger scheme of things, who have this ignorant and stupid thought that WE ARE EVERYTHING.

7 comments:

Shiv said...

I know and can understand the feeling...cos had it many a times...not abt the flight though...the nite, the darkness the feeling of loneliness...Feeling tat we are not just everything...Life is just too hard to understand..

che sara sara said...

the speck makes a lot of differnce
its awesome

hari said...

Good one again Bala. A simple event called life well summarised. Irony is that even the most intelligent fail to understand that.

Madhu said...

I had a lot of expectations on my first flight. I shld say it was scary at first, the take off and seeing the ground from above. But the experience was divine. I loved every moment of the flight esp seeing the fluffy clouds. I'll never forget that feeling ....wow!

Enchanted Mind said...

@shiv

Those were days when you lie down on the terrace with your best friend and star gaze through the empty nights !!! :-)

@sophia
Tx

@hari
:-)

@madhu
yep, first flight experience is awesome.

Keshi said...

goshh thats a real pic? WOW!

**of lives that may exist, and the fact that we anything but a simple speck in the bigger scheme of things, who have this ignorant and stupid thought that WE ARE EVERYTHING.

SO TRUE! And they must be seeing our planet just like how we see this moon so far away...


Keshi.

Enchanted Mind said...

@Keshi

Tx