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However as it is said that, every dark cloud has a silver lining; for me it seems to be very true. Only with a slight variation though ..... Since for me, after every Silver Lining (even if it is the Thinnest of Tin Lining), there looms a very Dark Cloud. It happens every time. Whenever it seems that for me the good time has arrived finally, suddenly I found out that the Good Time was just an illusion only ... It was actually the beginning of a very bad period .....

So, co-operating with the Dark clouds have become my day to day activity ... And typically the "Tin Lining"s have become my act of a break from my 'Normal' schedule .....

So you must be thinking that, this suites only to this pathetic preaching moron ... Hold on dude, I mentioned that Dark Clouds are the inherent part of my regular and 'Normal' schedule .....
However, this does not hold at all when I am on my own 'Abnormal' schedule ...

During those 'Abnormal' schedule I am totally with my own Freaking mind, having fun in my own Freaking ways ... In those cases there are no Dark Clouds, there are always bright Sunlight shining ... So, now what is exactly this 'Abnormal' schedule ??? Let me put it straight, there is absolutely nothing scheduled at all in this 'Abnormal' schedule ... Nothing is permanent, everything is variable & hence you take decisions at the drop of a Hat, you enjoy your every breath to the fullest, you don't think about the result and just do what your instinct says .... You just accept whatever you get, you enjoy every detail of the landscape around you, you be happy with everything around ..... So, does this mean merely Freaking out ???

Let me tell you a Story ... A Small Story .... A very freakingly beautiful Story ..... For those who are looking for any spicy Gossip you can click the Cross at the Top right Hand Corner of your Screen, for others those who just want to see what lies beneath, are Welcome to carry on :-P .....


It is Night, 1 am ... you are in your Bed like any other sane and sensible person (only 'Single' in my case ;-)) ... Everybody around you is sleeping peacefully ... Suddenly you feel you need to have some fast cool breeze in your face ... So, what you do, you slip out ... You carefully take the Bike's keys & your Gate keys, Unlock your Gate, you creep out silently, you lock the Gate and in the very next Minute you are travelling at over 100 Km/hr with your Helmet Visor up, to a destination 81 Km away ..... A million thoughts that were crowding your sh**ty brain couple of moments ago, suddenly they vanish ... Just like that ..... In the dead of the night, you are whizzing past the almost-empty Road ..... Couple of idiotic college level drunkards in their pathetic garbage of a car sway along merrily ... You just blaze past those f***ed up idiots ..... Some sl**ty girls move in and out of the nightclubs which you just whisk past ... You see the hookers waiting for their daily doze of income as they just daze at you blasting through the Empty Road ..... You carefully avoid the corrupt bribe-loving cops in your own twisted map kind of way ... You avoid sh**ty potholes, you avoid the jerks all around and finally after another couple of minutes of dodging around, you get to catch the Highway ..... Those who have driven in Night in highway will be knowing this, others just believe me, the beautifully Street-Light-lit Highway beneath that enormous never-ending black Dome kissing the Horizon is a Treat to watch ..... With nothing but the Street-Lights to gaze at you as you zoom past each of them, puts a grin in your face .... Occassionally you get to see some backlights of some Big rusty trucks momentarily ... Carefully dodging all of them you head away for the fast sweeping turns and beautifully pitched tarmac ahead ..... You are racing with yourself, you are Racing with the Time .....

After this gruelling ride you reach the dhaba 81 Km away from your home ... The chronometer in your watch reads 48:35 sec and still counting ... You hastily stop that as you halt and remove your Helmet ..... Despite the cool breeze, your face and your palms continues sweating ..... Those who ride regularly, they would be knowing that riding really fast, actually takes out a lot of energy from your body ..... So, replenish, whenever you can .... You get in the Dhaba, have a Lassi, light up a smoke and look at your ride proudly (there is something called pride of ownership after all), still grinning from your accomplishment .....

Suddenly all of your balloons of pride shrinks to deflation like anything as you see that due to your gruelling ride, the Ride itself couldn't take it any more ... It ditched you like every other mortal being and mocking at your idiocy with a Flat tyre ...... I told you, every silver Lining has a dark Cloud looming behind ... :-D

What ????? A Flat Tyre ???? What are you going to do in the middle of the night ??? So, again you are bound to get back to terms as you start thinking about your possible course of action ... You must not have thought about this even in your wildest of the nightmares while you were slipping out of your sweet little cozy bed ... You must be cursing your decision right now a million times and swear to never come out again at night .... Or, will you not ????? ;-)


No ... Definitely not ... Friends, from here on let me carry on with my own narration only .... At that moment though I was cursing my decision for not planning for this consequence earlier ... But, one thing I knew that, in the Dhaba I was not alone ... Quite a few of the Truck-Drivers were also having some Food out there ... I asked them whether they can help me in that situation, though I knew they won't be having any of the equipments with which I could mend my Bike's flat tyres ... But, I did not need to mend my Bike's tyres there at night at all ... I knew it very well that, it is always better to wait for the morning and get the right equipments at the bike mechanic's place .... What I needed was to befriend the Truck-Drivers there ... These Truck-Drivers usually have a nasty and rude behaviour or they are Drunk most of the times, courtesy to their extremely risky yet monotonous and energy-sapping job ..... So, most of the times they are not in the best of their Mood and they will refrain themselves from providing any kind of favour to some unknown person except a fellow Truck-Driver ...

So, when I asked for help, they just looked at me pathetically, looked at my Bike even more pathetically and finally said in a muted voice which contained a lot of disgust; "wait in the Dhaba and move your Bike tomorrow Morning, or Hold your Bike's Handles and start walking" ..... It seemed that some kind of judge who is pissed off as usual after getting abused daily by his Wife at his home, has done a world of good by enacting a Community Service while uttering those few words with excruciating pain ..... I thought of giving him a mouthful, but I restrained myself as I knew right now I needed the help from these guys ... So, I checked my wallet, ordered another Lassi and sat down at the other corner of the bench where these guys were seating ... I keenly listened to what these guys were speaking about ... What I found out in delight was their lousy Topic of Discussion .....

I thought in my mind that, this is gonna be much easier than I had in my mind ..... These guys were talking about some of the Hindi Movie Actresses and the size of their "upper ventral region of the Torso" ... Well, I knew a bit of these statistics, so I suddenly commented from my end which made all of them turn to me ... I took the opportunity and indulged into the debate ..... They were having some relaxed discussion over the "Motherly Feature" of some "Number-Counting" Actress ..... Apparently this actress had made most of the 'Dewars' completely 'Deewana' ... So, all this Dewars were still fondly reminiscing the glimpses of the Motherly Protrusions that they witnessed ... I added some more spice by inviting another actress in between the discussion .... I explained them with some of the detailed analysis of the movies acted by some "Compassionate Kulkarni" which sold due to her only, was having a more voluptously Geomorphological properties ..... So, after successfully winning the debate with my trump card over their topic of discussion, the very successful "Number-Counting" actress of bollywood, I realized that I have got their confidence ... So, after finishing 3 glasses of Lassi and finishing the HOT topic jovially, most of the guys were preparing to leave ... I checked at my watch, it was 3:30 am .....

I knew this was my chance ..... I suddenly looked at my Bike with a very pensive insight and then looked at one of the Drivers ... He looked at me and asked if I intend to get back to City or if I had some other plans ..... I suppressed my ecstatic expression with extreme difficulty and slowly replied, "Yes, but my Bike is a lame one now ..." He grinned at me and asked "How about a Truck Ride ???" I nodded happily; as me, the Driver and his 2 Helpers, helped my Ride up the Truck's normal Load ... the Truck was loaded with Malt or something, filled in some of those old Rusty bags ..... While I asked, where shall I sit, the Driver looked clumsy ... This looked a bit of problem to him .... He could not ask his Helpers to sit out upon the cargo due to some unknown stranger ... They looked at each other as they have faced the biggest problem this World has ever known and now the World faces its gravest Danger due to this fact ..... I relieved all of them as I broke the silence by saying that I had childhood wish, to travel on top of a Truck's Cargo ... After a bit of artificial denying, they gleefully agreed to let me go up the Cargo .....

So, I went on top of the Cargo beside my beloved Yamaha, and promptly lied down on my back facing the big black Dome covering the million like me like a protective blanket, while the tiny Lights are just working as the Night Lamp ..... The Truck started moving ..... It was an amazing experience as I continued exploring the different patterns of the constellations up there .... The night looked wonderful as my makeshift Bed of mine continued rocking me like a Baby in a Cradle as the Truck moved ..... This liking to the rocking of the cradle must be few of those inherent senses one is born with, which brings sleep even in the most awkward of the conditions to most of the guys, irrespective of their Age ... I went fast asleep and must be murdering a hundred Pirates in the Ship while my Killing spree was halted abruptly as I was woken up by a sudden halt .... But, instead of getting pi**ed out over this unexpected interruption of my sweet sleep, I curiously looked around me ... The Truck came to a halt ... There were few Tree leaves within a few feet of me ... I turned over my back to look in front of the Truck .....


I looked out to see, a hundreds of trucks were lined infront of me waiting to get into the checkpost ... Hundeds of those Red backlights in the almost dark early morning, accompanied by the Orange Streetlights was Spectacular ... It was a Sight to behold .... I checked my watch, it was almost 4:30 am ..... I kept lying awake as I heard a mixed chatter of Engines Snarling, Check-post Guards Yelling, Drivers cursing each other, some Morning Birds tweeting-singing, Wind whistling through the leaves, my mind racing with a million of voices ..... I sat up and looked forward as slowly each of the Truck passed the check posts ... There were a few questions with me on top of the Truck, I don't know what exactly the Driver told to the Guard, but they did not wish to see me .....

Henceforth, till we reached the City, I sat firmly on top of the Driver's Shed ... Morning breeze chilled me to the bones as I kept puffing ciggarettes to counter the weather .... It was somewhere around 5:00 am, when our beloved Sun cared to creep up the Horizon right of me ..... I was more than happy to see the glowing Ball than ever before ..... Another half-an-hour and we reached the City ..... A lone mechanic just opened his shop and was sprinkling some water around his shop's gateway ... He hardly expected a big Truck to stop at his door-step and he propmptly started yelling that he doesn't know working upon the Trucks and Truck shops are up ahead .....

Without caring much, four of us started to haul down my 2-wheel companion ... As the Bike got down, seeing that made the mechanic calmed down ... I paid the Driver some 300 Rs. which he took gleefully after showing some initial dissent ..... He wished me lots of Good Luck in my life ahead, although I knew all of the wishes are going in vain ...

It took the mechanic about 15 minutes to mend off the flat tyre ... After paying him off, I checked my watch, it was 6:10 am ..... I knew in another 20-30 minutes my parents are going to wake up, so again I rode truly, madly, deeply to find myself home within next 20+ minutes ... I just blasted through the early Morning empty roads ..... I flung the Gate open, put my ride in, locked it down and rushed to my Room ..... The sounds must have awaken my Mom, as she looked out from their floor upstairs to find a quiet Locked Gate ... Next, she came to check me to find me deeply in sleep ... She tried to wake me up and being unable to do so, scolded me over my sleeping habit for about a minute or so ..... I drowsily uttered my intention to not to go to College as I intended to have a tight sleep .... Getting frustrated with me, she went back to her daily work ..... At that moment with a satisfying grin in my face I went back murdering Pirates ..... I needed that sleep badly .... My mother later said, even while sleeping I had the smile around my lips .....


So, what did I get from this Night-Out ????? Some, Adrenalin Rush ??? some wastage of money ??? A Flat Tyre ??? Confrontations & Discussions over some lousy topic with the foul tempered Truck-Drivers ??? A few glass of Lassi ??? A Truck Ride under the star-lit Sky ??? what ??? Are these really worth to crave for ???? Are these really worth to lose your sleep for ?????


Come on, what do you think guys ??? Ask yourself, what is the purpose of your Life ??? Money/Fame/Status/Large Family/Happiness in other's faces, what ????? Unless you are a Selfish bas**rd, you live around 75% of your life for someone else only ... You live for your parents/family/spouse/friends/kids/money/fame etc. etc. etc. .... The 25% that you spend on yourself, usually sleeping cozily only ... So friends, is it the sleeping time only left, for you to spend out with yourself ??? So, in your list of purpose you have found time for yourself to sleep, so that you can live for others again tomorrow ??? Come on, try to find some way to spend time for your own Happiness only ..... I know, Happiness is enjoyed more while shared, but believe me sometimes Happiness needs to be a bit private also, where you can be Happy for yourself only, just like the way a small Kid gets happy ..... Then only, you will be able to Enjoy every good things around you even more ..... Try to have some time for yourself and see the wonderful World and appreciate our worth and purpose in Life ..... So, that even from the most idiotic experiences also, you get a wonderful Story for the rest of your Life ...
Because you know, Silver Linings don't come that Often ...


Enough of the lecture friends ..... I believe a 50% of you guys reading this have already quit halfway down, another 25% have cursed me like anything after coming upto this end ... another 12.5% would be commenting upon the filthy philosophy that they found in this Story .... another 6.25% would be commenting upon my uselessness ..... another 3.125% would be misunderstanding my point ...... So, that leaves a very small (3.125%) section of people who might just understand, exactly what did I try to say, but won't be able to comprehend to the full ..... and a half of them... ...... Enough ............. Enough of the stats ... Let me tell you whatever small that number may be, it is Great !!!!! Because, that is also way beyond my expectation .....

More later ........ Take Care .........

P.S. :- And again, thanks for the Lovely comments that you have posted ... Due to some tight schedule I could not reply to you all at this moment, but I definitely will try to reply to you all .....
I will not Promise though (refer to my Previous Post ... he he he :-P) .....