Flashes of visions

A flash.

Life goes out.

A flash.

Life comes back again.

In between lay years of silence;

Awaiting redemption from the pain.

Dedicated to the Polish Railway worker, Jan Grzebski, who fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988 and woke up a week ago ( ie 19 years later!)

A few days back, a friend of mine had messaged me that I was prone to meet with an accident. My initial reaction was to laugh at it and then I became serious and for sometime, I tried to be careful and acted all paranoid ( U never know whats gonna hit you and where!) And then, I wondered what would happen if I do get hit by something and lie in coma for 19 years ie till 2026?(“Abishtoo.Nallathey nenake maatiyaa..Abachaaram..Abachaaram”)

What would happen to the world in those years? Change? And in what way and form. Would the world in 2026 be like the Utopian ones potrayed in Shankar’s movies? Or more like the dystopian potrayal of the world in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men? My bet is status quo. I do not see the world changing much in those years. Yes, the glaciers would melt away and every country would still try and evade responsibility. A bunch of clowns would realise Indian brains are far more precious than oil and more dangerous and hence start invading all the countries where we have a strong immigrant presence amidst calls and protests of “NO to war” and intelligence reports and counter reports that Indian brains are not so valuable, Indians do not have any brains and so forth. Every party in our country would be wraggling as to who should be the next president (the fight would be between a moviestar, ex cricketer amongst others). Bollywood would still be lifting movie plots from all around the world and then call it inspired versions( inspid though would be more appropriate). Our 20th cricket team coach since 2007 would have resigned by then and a very wise mind would recommend my name (“the greatest player never ever to played cricket…”,one would quip) The “men in blue” of course, would readily agree.

So as Hegel quoted once, history would keep repeating itself. After all, He only wrote one script. Its upto us folks to improvise.