Sitting on the beanbag in your home
watching the moment pass by, recollecting how you spent the day and deciding
how you will spend the night, lucky are you if you say “I shall sleep”, but for
insomniacs this moment, this standstill of time where the entire day has passed
and the night bears upon you is where the most craziest of all your crazy,
stupid and idiotic ideas strike. Eureka!
Excited by a new idea, for whatever
your heart longs the most you get off the beanbag on which you so lazily sat,
excited and rejuvenated, full of energy to accomplish what might take forever
in a single night, you lose your thoughts of sleeping for this idea of yours is
more important than anything else in that one, tiny standstill moment!
So excited are you that you might
just dance, and dance if you must for that’s what makes these ideas so special.
You get up and first find a page, any page where you may write down this idea
for you are so frightened of forgetting it!
As you begin writing, you go on and
on and at a point it seems as though the idea is writing itself and you are
just the medium through which it takes shape. Writing, scribbling, writing and
repeating the process over and over again till you are satisfied with yourself,
you finally stop, not of exertion but of shortness of breath!
You get up again, this time to only
find yourself being dragged to the kitchen to brew a hot cup of coffee with
your favourite vanilla essence, so that you can hold the cup deep in your palm
to feel the warmth of your drink and the aroma of the coffee bean. Drunk with
caffeine and ecstasy you sit down once more with that so called single page of
your crazy idea to work on it even more.
Slowly as the caffeine wears out
and without realising that you are falling asleep only a few hours away from
dawn to be awaken by the alarm you lay your head on that page of ideas!
It’s in the morning when you wake
up, still a little drowsy that you re-read that page only to realise it really
is stupid and senseless, but then, that’s where the fun begins!
-Mehul Doshi
