Suddenly.... there was no ground beneath my feet. It all happened in a fraction of a second. I was swiped off my feet and pushed into thin air. I was in a free fall condition.
I was weightless, felt the adrenaline rush through my veins. I experienced the ecstasy of a sky diver. At that precise moment, I realized the intensity of the situation. The thought that I may hit the ground with a big 'THUD' any moment ran chill down my spines. I tried to hold on to anything in a desperate act but couldn't get anything. It was completely dark, I closed my eyes and felt the wind on my face.
I tried to slow my fall by spreading my arms and legs. But the air resistance was negligible compared to the weight of my body. I was still accelerating downwards at 9.8 metres per second square. With every passing moment my potential energy was getting converted to kinetic energy. I tried to cry for help, but the voice coming out of my mouth was blurred and indecipherable.
The fall was taking its toll on me, I was feeling dizzy. In those moments I realized that I have been completely vanished from the phase of the earth. I thought about my parents, my friends, would they be worrying about my state of existence or do they... even care. How can I expect a significant response from them when my input into the life had been negligible.
My whole life flashed before my eyes. I felt wasted. With what aim had been my life designed by the Great Engineer, I wondered. And how terribly have I deployed from the basic principles to work on own fuzzy logics. Frustrations....
My mind wondered, Now where was I falling. Considered all the possibilities. There was no exact answer. Uncertainty principle rules out exactness. Everything has a probability, a chance defined by a number between 0 and 1.
Probably, I was falling into a deep pit from where there could be no possible escape and I would have to stay there for eternity. Wonder if there could be any water below to cushion my fall. Or maybe I was falling right into center of the earth, where all mass is concentrated, where due to intense heat and pressure, everything is in molten state and maybe where I'd have to remain as a chunk of mass till the death of the planet.
Possibly it could be a wormhole which may lead me to a completely new place in the universe, where Time has no meaning and all the fundamental laws of physics fail. Or maybe.... I was getting liberated. From this tyrannous world, I was nearing the ultimate energy. 'Moksha' I thought.
I felt at peace.
"Hey, You!!!" I was interrupted by a noise.
Who may that be now? Any new form of life which is angry with me because I unknowingly entered its territory and breached its solitude. Or..... Or was that sound of the Great Engineer Himself.
"Do, thannoder" (malayalam meaning, 'hey,you'). I opened my eyes.
"THUD!!!"
Jaya miss was standing before me. Damn this was electrical period and I dozed off. I stood up, looked around, everyone was looking at me and laughing.
"Well, Sharat. If you want to sleep you need not sit in my class." she said.
I put up a lame smile. She walked back to the front rows and continued with her class. I looked at my watch, 12:10 it read. Five more minutes, I thought. I tried to copy the equations on the board into my notebook. The teacher walked towards me again and asked
"Enthinaa.. Padhikkane???" (mal: "Why do you bother??")
