Wednesday 1 March 2017

The unanswered question of my life!

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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