'cause I know it too..

It's been so long i scribbled some bits of text up here. To be honest, i did attempt a couple of times but ended up saving some as drafts. I have been thinking a lot, of late..reasons? Well maybe some time later. You know some of those issues which are intrinsically way too complicated to contemplate over in one go..that's pretty much the generalized reason i can give right now (maybe that's just with me, but ya it is the reason why those drafts are not up here.)

Anyways, I'll talk about something absolutely instant..that just happened..something exciting..i donot know how app an article here since this one's no flash, nevertheless i shall leave that to you to decide.

I went on a drive (calling a 4 km isn't technically incorrect 'cause it was still a drive i mean!)... so yepp.. I went on a drive when my watch was working absolutely fine showing 11:50 and it was the moon's turn to occupy the sky zone in my country. Now i wasn't up driving at this hour because I had a punjabi wedding to attend or something...it was some urgent work instead.

Hmmm...so what? a short night drive? big deal?
Well yes to me and maybe to you too once you read this :)

Night drives excite me like crazy and i know i share this fascination with a HUGE group of people across the globe :). So ya when i got this chance, there was no way i could miss it.
I did not turn the ac on. I preferred the car windows open instead, and played a collection of some of my favorite songs, and ya a lil louder than normal. It was such a pampering to the tired, irritated, all worked up person inside me. The feeling of fresh air breezing through my hair, the view of those yellow beams reflecting on the windshield and making the city streets glow, the respite from the nonsense metropolitan traffic...everything.. just everything was such a bliss..short timed..but a pure bliss. i could literally feel my face gleaming with a constant uncontrollable smile..yess...SMILE - that something which comes on your face when you achieve something you always wanted, that something which fills your heart with pleasure when you hug someone you love, that something which nourishes your soul when you feel that comfort and security being among people you trust completely, blindly. To generalize i was smiling because i was happy. Happy- not like I-Met-Amitabh Bachhan-Happy..but happy like Everything's-Perfect-Happy! :)

And so well I had been cruising for some 15 minutes now. Just then my phone buzzed. It was like fingers snapped to wake me up. I looked at my watch..time was 12:05 AM..I picked up my phone and was pretty instantly reminded of the fourth and fifth gears in the car machinery by mom on the phone.
(I felt like that kid being dragged out of the warm cozy mink blanket to get ready for school on a parky winter morning at 6 in the morning when it's still dark and hazy outside).

The time then was 12:10 or something. Even though i knew why she ordered me to accelerate, I did not want to actually think about it, or about all the WHYs or WHY CAN'Ts about it. I was getting late and it would have been only stupid/ impractical of me to argue. As much as we say we live in a well educated, cultured, developing and advanced society, there's no second thought to the fact that we are not entirely being truthful by saying that. I knew my mom's right. And I was at home when there were still ten minutes to half past twelve!