Transition

Have u ever felt the sickening feeling of loneliness ? Family and friends do exist .. some special ones too... But still you feel that deep deep pit in front of you beckoning to you ... Camouflaging itself like a cushion.. trying to ensnare you into it... Lulling you into a feeling that it is Independence.. promising you all the comforts .. warmth that you could ask for .. Only to pull you into nothingness... Have u ever felt the need to run fast and hide somewhere ? away from all the probing eyes.. away from the shadows chasing you Something keeps telling u to never look back ... out of the fear that the one chasing you is yourself.... You never need to run so fast if it was someone else.. Have you ever felt the need to cry out aloud ? There are a lot of appearances you carry around .. The sweet smiling faces you give are just another mask that you put over yourself.... 'This is a Transition phase.. things get better '.. people say... Eve

Tsunami has unleashed its insane power .. and people are still trying to pick up the remnants of their scattered lives... We were heading towards Elephanta caves that very same day.. blissfully unaware of the quake that had happened in the morning .. When somebody said there had been an earthquake in Chennai it was with disbelief that I had called my sister who is put up there... She told me all was well except for the fact that the sea had come into the road... Even then the enormity dint strike us.. It was really early then for us to speculate... Went to Elephanta.. took pictures .. did the usual shopping stuff..and came back... And then in the evening we came to know that 3000 people were dead in Tamil Nadu alone.... All of us sitting there in that Mumbai Local were shocked and some of us started to call friends in Chennai frantically..... With every growing minute we became more and more shocked by the news we were getting about casualties in Indonesia, Sri Lanka , Th