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orange falls from a tree- Not on Newton. No one wondered why she fell, like he
did when the apple did. But everyone wondered whether the orange was orange or
the orange was the orange. Is orange a color or a fruit or a color named after
the fruit or the fruit named after the color?? How does orange look?? For me
she looks orange, for you too she does- but my orange isn’t the same as yours.
I might be color blind or you might be, or we both might not be- yet orange is
orange today, but tomorrow or for someone else, she’s totally different. Once
we make an attempt to accept all the confusions of her cover, we look closer,
as she lets you into her world. As we get introduced to a new expression among
the various others of her. The juicy vesicles that we consume each one of them having
a quality of her own, mood of her own and having her own individual existence
within. An aroma of her own that slows down the movement of sand into the other
side of it. As we separate a vesicle, another expression of her is introduced.
Now we’re looking into her, from a whole different perspective. We never knew
that there was a vesicle inside her, when she fell at first. It was just
stories we heard, when we saw something colorful fall off a tree that grew from
a seed and some downpour by the sincerity of the queen of seasons. It was a
conversation of the nature, a way of telling a story by creating something new,
different, something colorful in between the green canvas on a brown bark. A
vesicle bounded by a translucent layer, we see a seed within. A seed that would
give birth to another green canvas and a brown bark that would grow to more
oranges. So we take it away, the flaw in everything that we expect to be
perfect. We get into the translucent layer and in between the juiciness of the
colorfulness; we find a flaw, the seed whose potential and acceptance comes
with time. And then we pop in our mouth, to experience a momentary joy that
would sustain until you pop another and another, as we plant the flaws and let
the seasons takes over its part. The various expressions are known, familiar
with time as we fall in love with the cycle. The color, the fruit, the various
expressions as we get into the colorful fruit, as we understand her mood and
her tastes- she falls off a tree, another one falls and then another. From
within, another one grows and from that, another and this big cycle keeps
continuing. And now the orange doesn’t fall below the tree, she falls far away,
travels far away and meets tangerines, gets insecure. Finds an apple, is
fascinated by his contribution to Gravity. Meets everyone else, tries to
understand just like she did herself. Then she falls in love with the
diversity, variety and the flaws that exist all around in a world filled with
colors and tastes, living in a bubble that needs to be… burst.
I trip on the stairs, and I wake up…, it’s around 2 in the morning and I was dreaming. Mom’s calling my cell, the alarm is ringing…its 6, I go down, get on with the usual processes and trying to recall the dream. I remember bits and pieces of it, and I discuss it with myself, it was Kashmir right, I was attending some marriage and someone was there… forget that its 6:30...you are late… and I get ready, and I leave to college…still thinking. I’m in the bus, listening to the latest bollywood tracks… still discussing about the dream. I reach college, and make my walk towards class… and I go and sit in my usual place… in the middle row. Two classes go by, some parts interesting, and most of them boring. In the recess, we get to know that the next class is cancelled… and I had almost forgotten the dream… Until the group of girls in the first two benches to the left of me were listening eagerly to a story that one of them was telling… “I was in Kashmir walking in the streets with y
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