by Aditi Pinto
The world is full of elephant stampedes that have dented its surface in so deep. You may call it a rat race but I think the size of it is far bigger than the damage done by a small rodent. Its mammoth sized. Things will only change when pigs fly. And only those people who can unload the heaviness of their existence and spread their wings will be untouched by the stampede. They will be carried further by the wind currents, and stirred up by the movement.
Existence is mere. A stonewall, a glass of milk, untouched. To have our name on paper, on a street sign, newspaper headline or celestial body is insignificant. If the only roads we walk on are the ones made of tar or cobblestones that were built by construction workers on a sunny afternoon, we will never truly reach anywhere. And if we all walk down the same roads, chances are it will be too crowded to move.
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So she walked. She walked on the walls of people’s houses, like a lizard slowly yet stickily makes its way. She peered downwards wondering why everyone had these huge barriers if they were doing nothing interesting behind them. People sat on their chairs outside and read the newspaper or wrote words frantically in a notebook. She saw boredom. If this was all they did all day, why did they hide it from everyone else?
“ I know you’re pretending to be special, Mr. Shah,” she called down to her grumbling neighbour who sat outside the top two buttons of his shirt undone revealing a forested chest. Maybe he did have something he ought to be hiding.
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She grew up at her own pace. Her own space.
I´m just sharing. Making public her talent. Missing India a bit... Waiting Aditi to appear.
