Reflections - A Journey Through Life

There was no light anywhere except the back-lights of the car and the starlight. I stood silently. A little apart from my car. Looking around and up at the night sky. After two hours of drive I had told my driver to stop in the middle of nowhere. Just to drink in the night sky. My town was still two hours away. It was late night. No car coming this way. My driver, a quiet non-interfering person. I felt deep peace seeping into me. Huge empty expanse now dark—lying dormant— sleeping under the December sky. This morning only I went along this road, the rolling green sunlit fields merging with the horizon mile after long mile. I loved this road during the morning drive. Now I am in love again, a different kind of love. My puny body rooted to the mother earth, my eyes soared among the stars finding company, strange but rich comforting company. The twinkling stars told me—we are with you, forever.

The man was standing near the window of a car three cars away in front. He was trying to sell cheap toys to a child inside the car. The red light halt at this large traffic point will take a few minutes more to turn green. The object of attraction was a colorful disk—must be part of a cheap toy which the man was trying to sell. The colors lured the child inside the car. A dialogue was going on between the toy-seller standing under the harsh sun and the inmates of the car. All around him were cars of various shapes and sizes impatiently waiting for the light to turn green. He didn't belong there just as a slum doesn't have any right to be near a modern apartment building. I was happy to see the toy passed inside the car. Now is the payment time, the deal will be closed and the man will have the chance to move away from the unnatural company of cars all around him. My gaze had drifted away for a moment. The light had turned green. Cars in the first row started moving. ...