Sunday, January 9, 2011

Intuition

"No please I don't need them" I said with rabbit eyes. ''We're giving it to you coz we love you!!" replied my Uncle. I consider it perfectly human when ur relatives give u money,then on the outside l say no but inside l'm like ''yes''.Especially when it's 500 bucks.With a light heart and happy memories l set my course homewards.Railway station was crowded as usual which l blissfully ignored.As soon as l boarded the train l came to know about trains running late,thanks to Megablock.As per the ritual,I soon fell asleep.
Honks and beeps.That was all l could hear.But everything around me was engulfed in darkness as if someone threw a blanket over me. All l could hear was loud horns. Suddenly l found myself in the middle of a busy road with cars zooming past me.l turned my gaze towards a loud honking sound.
A gigantic red BEST bus was approaching me and''Boom''.Before l could respond the thing hit me and l went flying.
"So tell me something about yourself''said a pretty voice.l looked up.A sweet young girl was sitting next to me on the coffee table.''yeah,but...errr...why'' l hesitated.''Bcoz from the last half an hour I'm just talking to myself,and..oh..whatever''she cut her conversation in middle and took a quick sip of hot chocolate.l just sat there looking at her like an idiot.
She had a mysterious look which told me that something's fishy in here but l was completely bowled over by her exquisiteness.She started'''How can u dream when you are just sitting in a train".I got baffled but I replied" I dont know what u r talkin about?". The girl gave me a cute smile and held"Why does it happen that we always land up in the middle of a dream having no idea where it started or ended.Next question ; Do u really know where u r or how u got here". She again smiled.

My mind started racing and suddenly I woke up with a start.The train had crawled into the station.It soon dawned upon me that it was just a dream which blurred away.Reality stung me again when I found out that I was just one station away from where I started. While I slept for an hour which seemed to me like ages. I alighted at the next station heaping silent curses. Luckily I found a swank AC bus for my destination.
I happily hopped into it looking for a comfy journey. Sometime later someone sat beside me so I looked up. A sweet young girl was sitting right next to me. I had a deja vu kinda feeling so I managed to steal a few stares. She somehow noticed this but eventually ignored."Have I met her somewhere ?"I started thinking.To describe her she was just another good looking college going babe and persistently clinging to her smartphone like anything. I overheard a few conversations and she was crying foul over her disheveled lifestyle and her over burdened 'commerce' subjects."Wow" I spoke to my mind"If people find commerce as tough a subject I wonder what would they feel about engineering". Praising my prejudiced thinking I felt like striking a conversation with her.
I picked up my phone and started talking to myself in a rather high tone so that she could overhear. "Oh hi how r u. Long time no see. Oh so u r enjoying . Great yaar . I wish I had pursued commerce coz engineering sucks. " I was talking to myself taking perfect pauses in between. She gave me a startled look when I uttered the word “commerce”. I figured out she was desperate to talk to me hence I quickly hung up my mock phone call with a few goodbyes. "Excuse me, are u studying engineering ?"she asked. I gave her a contented smile and nodded yes as my mind said "Bulls Eye".
She again said "If u think that commerce is so easy to study then I think u r living in a bubble ". "Look I don't mean to offend you but u are exaggerating ur own problems." I replied.
"Be it any stream, I think the difficulties are always the same. "she said.I was thoroughly impressed by her rational thinking and in the pretext of changing the topic I said"Do you always start conversations like this ?". She said "Yeah Whatever!!".I quickly came up with a cheesy line"When a girl says 'whatever'to a guy in the middle of a quarrel it is safe to assume that the boy won".
It seemed to me like a perfect conversation was building and I was like on cloud nine when she suddenly declared “Oops!! I gotta go,that’s my stop”she declared.I felt gloomy.She asked “Soooo… can I have your cell no. so that I can text u later”. This statement brought out the flirt it me “Now look first I’ll text u and then u’ll text me and a few texts later u’ll probably forget me,So why don’t we do this .Let’s terminate this pleasant conversation here itself with sweet memories.” I said with a Tom Cruise smile.She was completely baffled by this but sensing her oncoming destination she said “Ciao” .She was about to leave when a mysterious thing happened .These words involuntarily were spoken by me “Be careful when u get off the bus. You might hurt yourself”.The next moment I wondered why I said this.The sweet young girl definitely heard this but turned a deaf ear and just left.
No wonder what happened next.An errant bike rider tried to overtake the gradually slowing bus from the left side right where the bus door opened.My sweet young lady having no idea what’s coming just hopped off and “BOOM”.The bike rammed into her or she rammed into the bike,Whatever….She fell to the ground with a thud and scrapped her knee but nothing major.The biker on the other suffered larger injuries which he rightly deserved.The girl,I wondered how,stood up with tearful eyes holding her scrapped knee and gazed me with horror.The bus left swiftly as the driver didn’t wish to attract problems.I kept looking at her until she was out of my sight.Suddenly everything became clear to me.
My dreaded dream had come true, though in pieces and with a few twists. Almost everything from the accident to the sweet young girl matched each other. Though I didn’t recall the girl from my dreams because we tend to forget 75% of the dream we see as soon as we get up.It’s also true that when we are in deep sleep we can sometimes unleash our sixth sense.Some scientists even claim that during Rapid Eye Movement or REM or deep sleep we can break the barriers of the fourth dimensions which we all know as time and look through into the future technically known as intuitions.
Nevertheless it was an unforgettable day for me and oh!!the mysterious girl too.Another amazing chapter of my life.