Can a water droplet speak?? I never felt so, before that day.
Message beeps (Rather vibrates) in cell phone and a message flashes out, “Hi G…!! Isn’t it awesome weather outside”? G takes a break from his hectic work, closes his eyes and smiles. Every single message or ping from B makes him smile. It is something with which he could work 48 hours without food or break. Suddenly, Cubical phone rings. Call from On-Site. Damm, why can’t they wait for a while? But G went to the window, ignoring iterating ring, crossing the cubicles and removes the strange stripped, so called curtain, from the windows.
Hey, what is the time? OMG!! It is 3:00 PM and where the hell sun has gone. Although from the AC chamber one can neither feel heat nor could feel anything else. Still, whenever it rains, B get to know. Don’t know how. B must be having a direct connection with either weather dept. or Some INSAT series satellites sent for weather forecast, or may be having a strong 6th sense for rains. I will definitely ask B someday.
G... types a message. But, then delete it. Instead, he move outside of ODC, called elevator and pushes No ‘0’. Damm, how many people need to go out at the same time? Taking halt at each floor, and G cursing himself for not using staircase came out of building. He opened his arm, closed his eyes lifted his head and listen a voice. Hey buddy!! Comeback you will get wet, we need to stay late night for Phase -2 Delivery. But, he didn’t listen as something else was dragging him away. As if, he was floating in air as Jerry used to on inhaling the fragrance of cheese.
He crossed the road, making at least 3-4 cars apply the emergency break. He took out his cell phone, went for last dialed number and redialed without thinking who is it, because he knew, no one else he used to call. Everyone else calls him. So, generally dialed calls contain only one no. But no response. B must be busy in office. No probs. Why to bother B. It might be really tough for B; else response was for sure, as B loves rain. G hate rainy season but loves rain. Actually this G character is out of my mind. Sometimes he do such a mischievous thing that even I am amused of.
He stood under a tree and says loudly, gaining attention from every one. Come out of the chambers you filthy fellows. Look Nature has bestowed much better condition than the AC. But no one bothers to listen. Why?? Because in a rain no one wants to come out leaving their cozy environment. But for G, doesn’t matter at all. He looks at a drop of water on a leaf of tree and said me, “Isn’t it amusing”?
“What??” My certain response was. These droplets, they indeed speaks a lot. See, how small drops combine to form bigger drops. Have you ever marked, only two drops merge at a time? If it is more than two, they will never form a bigger drop rather fell of like a stream. When size grows beyond a limit it breaks into two and it enlarges the surrounding when seen through it.
Holy Shit!! What the Hell does it mean?? Has he done P.HD in Water droplet?? Or even though, he had, how come it matter to any one, especially someone like me. Then he explained, “We all are like these water drops. We interact with each other to form groups. The bigger group is more prominent it is. But when someone takes a load more than capable of, fails in life”. At that very moment, a drop fell on my spectacles. “And splits- off, leaving no trace behind. And if it leaves any trace, people cleans it up”, G said to me as I was cleaning my glasses. All of a sudden I was feeling guilty for that drop. Because, it was I who cleaned it up. Seeing on my face, G said, “Don’t be sad, if it is not you, someone else will do. It is the simple rule of life.” G continues, “But the understanding between people must be one-to-one. May be, what the relation between two person is, not acceptable by third one. Still, one has to be in group. So one should never, interfere between other two. Otherwise, the bonding breaks and what happens is same as when more than two drops want to combine simultaneously”. OMR (as OMG is outdated, R stands for Rajni, a new lingo started by KK, our Rajni R&D factory), this guy make sense. What else?? G smiled at me and said, “Have you read nuclear fission”. Of course, who else didn’t hear off? Large nucleus when bombarded with neutrons splits up in smaller one. “It applies here two, when the drop size comes to a limit, it breaks into two. It means, one must know there limitation, otherwise no matter how stable your group is will split up”, G said calmly. And what the last statement meant, I thought. G looked at my puzzled face and said, “Do I need to answer? Figure it out yourself dude”. Saying this G went back to office, leaving me alone, standing in rain, puzzled, amused, astonished. Drops were falling down from my hairs, and I was feeling pity for them. I could see street children to catch rain water, but water can’t be caught by bare hands.
Those 15 minutes conversation showed me a new philosophy of life. It is sometimes amazing, how a simple non-living, miniature drop could teach you what a long period of research needed by scientist to identify about atoms and by sociologist to identify about social behaviors of Homo-Sapiens. We just need to identify. Every moment of life teach us a lot, we just need to be alert to get it, and courage to accept it.
But, a question is still haunting me. What does a group mean? Was G talking about friend circle, or family or society? The more I think, more my eye widens. Bingo!! It applies to all. And really, for any issue, social, economical, political, technical etc we need a view perspective. The same thing correct for one group of people may be wrong for others. We need to have a view and that is what G was talking about. Viewing through a drop magnifies the issue. Bigger the drop, bigger the issue will be magnified (Just like thicker the convex lenses).
Guys!!! Droplets do speaks a lot!!!
hmm...G did made sense about the smaller droplet when combining with more than one droplets,loosing their stability but looking at it from the other perspective when several small droplets combine to form a group they gain the momentum and thrust to form a stream,a stream which makes these droplets reach a bigger stream and so on..this doesnot make them loose stability but provides them ample stability that guides them through the various constraints on their way to ultimately meet their destination,a destination which the single drop could never have attained itself alone...the same goes for the relationships,as long as the pillar of understanding holds straight,it is never burdensome to keep them intact..initially we make these relationships but at a latter instant of time these relationships make us,,holds us from falling and succumbing to the overheads of life..like a bundle of sticks the greater the cohesion and number is,the stronger they are..It might be true for nuclear fission but then that is so only for the radioactive elements which are themselves radiating and unstable...
ReplyDeletebut then this is just another prospect of looking at a thing..and offcourse that can never be the same for B and G ..:P