I
always have this dream of running in a forest since my childhood. I run for
hours with no exit, hopping from one tree to another, with no hope of coming
out of it. With every dream, I was going deeper into the woods. Initially, I used
to get scared and wake up sweating and screaming with breathlessness but with
time I got used to it and started observing things around me. The scattered sun
rays falling on ground through the large canopy of forest is like creating a tyndall
effect and making those small particles of the air visible to naked eyes. The
decomposed leaves, animal droppings and dead trees on the ground are giving it
a little brownish look with green bushes, mushrooms and small plants around.
The rustling sound of walking on dry leaves now turned in to a melody of
comfort which initially was like a lonesome sound of leaves scratching and
scraping. The young trees growing through the bushy ground sets a perfect
example of struggle faced by them in order to come into existence and become
full grown trees. The susurrating sound of the wind, flowing through the large
trees and small bushes, the humming of insects, chirping of birds, the sounds
of critters, tickle of a distant stream, all these sounds create an aura of
complete wilderness and produce a mysterious voice through which forest tries
to speak to me and calls me deep within itself. I started feeling like someone
is calling me there; someone wants me to be there in the forest. Someone wants
to speak to me in the woods and one day I started my journey to find that
someone. From one place to another, I was chasing that voice in every forest I come
across. Each time I visit a new place, the magic of the voice grows stronger
and the invisible force pulls me deeper into the wilderness. All these places, I
am visiting for the first time, I feel like, I have been here earlier, I have
seen them before, I know this place. That feeling of Deja vu reminds me of the
places of my dreams. I don’t know if I am living my dreams or my dreams are
merging into reality. The question is still unanswered ~ AB
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