Silence

Ever felt a sudden silence; a feeling when everything around comes to a standstill. Cars and bikes with their horns blaring; people chatting, moving around; music and all hustle bustle suddenly dying down and nothing but silence is left. One could certainly feel the movement but not hear anything; as if being pushed into some kind of vacuum. The time stops followed by a deadening silence which slowly starts creeping down ones body and encapsulates the soul.

You look around to see if you can find someone; someone that you can relate to, someone that you can talk to. How can there not be a single person amongst a crowd of millions? How about friends? Some are lost forever and the others can’t be reached at that point. How about family? Not around. Strangely, not a single familiar face with a melee around. You feel like crying with tears welled in your eyes but not flowing; something inside stopping the outburst. You want to talk to someone- No, you can’t talk to anyone. You want someone to understand what you feel- No, there is no one who could do so. All so quiet, all so still, all so lonely like being castaway to a distant land. Everything stops and it feels as if you are standing all alone looking at everything yet nothing. It’s a moment of complete aloofness from the whole world. There is this cold feeling that surges inside like a shining blade, like steel piercing deep down.

Then again everything comes back to normal; the traffic, the people, the music all of them. That is when I realise, that it was one of those spasms, a bout of pain which takes the mind through an eerie silence. Zendagi migzara, after which. Life goes on.