"You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit out the world as I fell asleep . 'cause they fill the open air, leave teardrops everywhere.............."(Owl city -- Fireflies)
The world , life , can seem so much more meaningful when the eye looks out at a wonder , or rather what the brain perceives as wonder . Flickering lights of red , yellow and blue stared up at our flight as the pilot maneuvered the airbus A320 through the runway for takeoff . The newly renovated Kolkata terminal flaunted its flamboyant structure . Green over-wing lights were for a moment the reason for wide open eyes of the captivated eighteen year old sitting directly above it .
Captivating as the lights were , the 5 MP camera was disappointing . It couldn't see through the enchanted girl's eyes . The airplane rose and so did the spirit . A map of a thousand candles materialized inch by inch , foot by foot , yard by yard . And then they grew bigger , once dimmer , another time disappeared and finally shrunk to nothing .
Nothing it was until........... she took off her earphones , shut down her laptop and paid attention to the Indigo crew patting themselves on the back and asking passengers to help them go about it . Five minutes later , 35000 became 34000 and 32000 and............. the million twinkling gold coins caught that imp on the threshold of adulthood sitting over the wing . A million gold nuggets in a never-ending sheet of black and quiet -- most serene , a sense of peace , contentedness and fullness of purpose , a mind-numbing calm and quietude .
Wow! A river of yellow! A queue of marching red ants! But why were building lights and street lights flickering so often? It wasn't as though they were vanishing for a while and reappearing , they were flickering like the flame of a candle in the wind . So , why? A frown appeared on that familiar feminine forehead . Oh , ofcourse! Trees were the reason . From miles above trees weren't showing color , they were blocking it . They had found their own way of doing their bit even though they hadn't the power to show themselves .
The light came closer by the second . However , surprisingly , they hardly got any bigger ! They had gotten significantly smaller when we'd lifted off the ground and now that we were back touching down ( at the new domestic terminal in Chennai that had opened only that day ) , they weren't getting much smaller ! Bizarre ! Maybe humans aren't so aloof from nature after all .
The world , life , can seem so much more meaningful when the eye looks out at a wonder , or rather what the brain perceives as wonder . Flickering lights of red , yellow and blue stared up at our flight as the pilot maneuvered the airbus A320 through the runway for takeoff . The newly renovated Kolkata terminal flaunted its flamboyant structure . Green over-wing lights were for a moment the reason for wide open eyes of the captivated eighteen year old sitting directly above it .
Captivating as the lights were , the 5 MP camera was disappointing . It couldn't see through the enchanted girl's eyes . The airplane rose and so did the spirit . A map of a thousand candles materialized inch by inch , foot by foot , yard by yard . And then they grew bigger , once dimmer , another time disappeared and finally shrunk to nothing .
Nothing it was until........... she took off her earphones , shut down her laptop and paid attention to the Indigo crew patting themselves on the back and asking passengers to help them go about it . Five minutes later , 35000 became 34000 and 32000 and............. the million twinkling gold coins caught that imp on the threshold of adulthood sitting over the wing . A million gold nuggets in a never-ending sheet of black and quiet -- most serene , a sense of peace , contentedness and fullness of purpose , a mind-numbing calm and quietude .
Wow! A river of yellow! A queue of marching red ants! But why were building lights and street lights flickering so often? It wasn't as though they were vanishing for a while and reappearing , they were flickering like the flame of a candle in the wind . So , why? A frown appeared on that familiar feminine forehead . Oh , ofcourse! Trees were the reason . From miles above trees weren't showing color , they were blocking it . They had found their own way of doing their bit even though they hadn't the power to show themselves .
The light came closer by the second . However , surprisingly , they hardly got any bigger ! They had gotten significantly smaller when we'd lifted off the ground and now that we were back touching down ( at the new domestic terminal in Chennai that had opened only that day ) , they weren't getting much smaller ! Bizarre ! Maybe humans aren't so aloof from nature after all .
