5 Seconds

This particular piece of writing was written three years back when i experienced earthquake for the first time. A lot has changed between the time when this post was written and when it it being being published on my blog ! A fresh new start again with a past reminder. 

I was lying down on my bed, earphones were in my ears, mobile in my hand, eyes hooked on T.V, lips were whispering something, mind was somewhere else; may be in some deep thoughts about the life that I was trying to figure out from last two months. I tried everything, from the latest noisy illogical comedy T.V serials to the movies like Zindagi na milegi dobara, from the killing silent moments in life to the highest forms of vulgarity in rubbish discussions with friends but i was failed in my every step, then an experience of fIvE seconds cHaNgEd mY LiFe fOrEvEr.  ddddhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr(5, 4 , 3, 2, 1 ) yes it was a bloody scary sHoCk and technically we call it "eArThqUaKe".. In fractions of seconds my eyes travelled from TV to the wall and it was shivering like a kid who just came out of the bathroom in the chilly winter season..my lips stopped whispering and they kissed each other suddenly like a girl and a boy kissing for the first time, a message flashed on my cell phone's screen "dude, Earthquake"., before giving a thought to the message that i received, my mind went twenty one years back and then again came back to that moment. My hands were literally paralysed and I looked at my sister who was sitting like a sloth on the bed with stretched haunches and legs from one end to another, I said "Earthquake ". I had doubts in my mind whether it was really an earthquake or I was into a dream.(?). I came out of my room and looked out the street and heard some voices of women screaming and penetrating to my ears "reeee...Usha...Bhukamp...hoo., oye bhukamp, haawww..geeta bhukamp...it seemed like as if people had come out of their homes to celebrate the joy of triumph for something or it was the best moment in their lives that they ever came across. Everyone around me was so happy that they experienced a natural disaster (thank God, it was of low intensity.. otherwise.. we have seen the consequences many times in the past). Yeah, i was also there, experienced the same and had the full right to enjoy for experiencing the thing which is being experienced by only lucky ones and sometimes they become unlucky too. For me it was not just an earthquake or a shock, it was like a door of a wonderland which I couldn't open in 21 years of my life was opened naturally in just 5 seconds. It was not like a wonderland of Alice which was full of fiction rather this was a real wonderland with full of reality. Things around me were same but the perspective of looking @ them was totally changed as for the first time in my life I experienced and realised that life is too short. From the last 2 months I was trapped immensely in the past that my life was stopped and those 5 seconds were like as if someone had removed an old battery from a stopped clock and had put a new one into it and the clock started working again and so did "I". Life is too short and Unpredictable too (yeah, i know you all know this :D). Nothing is permanent and no one is immortal. So laugh a lot, love like you have never been hurt because every single second you spend upset, is a second of happiness that you will never get back. Don’t be afraid that your life will end ( yes,it will and it has to) rather be afraid that it will never begin again.. So before another eArThQuAkE comes, "STOP EXSISTING AND START LIVING"