Sunday, September 09, 2007

Of epiphanies and characters...

Birds and bats together in the sky was such a sight that it brought me along the trail to walk in the victorious yet emerging darkness. My work is such that i have to sit for long hours for a glimpse of normalcy in real life. I got one just now, the evidence of 'grays' in this 'black and white' world of untold opportunities , with the nocturnals mixing up with the early risers.

The sky looks like a ravaged battleground, clouds have a hue of that red and they seem to be in tatters. One can imagine what a fight it would have been by just looking at the fresh gorges and craters in the sky.

I was sitting along the lake when i saw it happening.. birds flying across the sky, returning back to their homes and on the same time a couple of bunches of erratically flying bats! Now i had a shot to complete my collection. It was perfect..it was neither day nor night, i wasn't happy or sad, neither there were ONLY birds or ONLY bats, it wasn't 5 or 6, yes , the perfect gray !
Its either yes or no for people, 0 or 1 for computers, yet quantum mechanics makes way for things like these...the grays !

Even though the greater truth strikes long after the strongest of decisions by people, they themselves fear that one day a realisation might come across and prove them wrong. Being wrong is what makes most of us apprehensive or even afraid, although there is a 'gray' which is neither wrong or right and most of the times we ARE in that.

Draw a couple of parallel lines and you have clear solid demarcations, take some steps back and there you the bigger picture ..which is gray ! I for one am concerned about this gray, whereas many are about the color of lines, the styl of lines, the angles or intersections of lines or even the thickness. One would say , quite correctly, that there IS a definitive purpose for the demarcations , to them i can only say that employing your energies on factors which affect your bigger picture(life) in such a negligible fashion isn't wise. To make your demarcations clearly visible you MUST put differences aside and have broader lines so that you don't have a fuzzy gray but consistent patterns when seen from a distance.

As i was munching on a sandwich while developing the pictures i took, a silhouette struck me ! All my photos had this outline in them, when i developed the pictures again i saw a small nest falling from the tree. In my rants i didn't give attention to detail and a strong epiphany of sorts made me realise of my own grays! I wasn't right or wrong but its just the characters and colors i acquire which label them as such and such.

My epiphanies of characters have the grays complete !

-ff

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