“No use trying that exit
window” announced my friend, taking a look at the 'decently built'
person seated close to that window.... (we don't insult people
calling them 'fat' .. instead we say , 'they eat well'!).
Yes, I too felt, 'no use
trying that window, in case of an emergency! Being nearest to the
window, he has the 'first-charge' on the asset called 'emergency
exit' and then, neither he nor anyone else would wriggle out!...' ..
We often define an 'emergency' to almost mean it as an explanation
to our confusion itself! Jaldi-jaldi mei ho gaya... Now, the blame
is on the 'emergency' for any errors of omission/commission! And it
is perhaps therefore that we seldom 'emerge' out of an emergency so
successfully! Our 'preparations' usually are during the last minute,
and our life-style is itself a 'crisis-management'! Spirituality
becomes an inevitable last choice, when spirit fails to exit early,
and nothing other than the spirit is properly-functional, and the
health issues are outsourced to the nearest medical shop!
As a kid, I used to watch
that soda-bottle being held 'properly' when others manage to pour
that liquid into their mouth with upturned bottle each time, and I
would struggle, waiting in vain, like that chakor pakshi!... The
exit-route is blocked, by that marble at the neck of the soda-bottle!
The bottle has to be inclined in only one particular direction so
that the marble slides into a slot nearby, and does not block the
exit-route of the soda when we gulp from it, the upturned bottle!
Good companies, clearly
mention the 'exit-option' while soliciting investments.. ...
I remember a very honest
confession, when a foreigner chose to give the feed back only after
safe-landing back at his country, though it was merely about the
taste of a dish at our host's lunch table, and he said, 'It was good,
and so spicy that it got acknowledged at both ends!' (They too are
quite conscious of a silk-smooth exit-route!).
The fat gathers in us, and
does not find an exit route... we force it through an in-built
incinerator (work-out), and it seeks double the replenishments later!
And when it is something 'sweet' that evades an exit-door, it
chooses to be the last one to walk out, ensuring 'life' itself as the
penultimate one... ( a life-time friendship indeed!)..
I did notice, it is only
the lights beneath/behind/under/(or, whatever!) ..... the word
'Exit' that is never switched off inside the movie auditorium (cinema
theatre), when all other lights are switched off, soon after the news
reel is over and the movie begins! (Oh yes, the 'modern' among the
old movie theatres do have a blinker-clock at a harmless corner, as a
'fashion', and just in case, somebody is too bored likes to look at
'exit' route a little earlier! But leaving the theatre early is
never looked at as an 'attempted-suicide', a cognizable-offence,
like when we leave our 'real-life-drama-stage' before time!.. But
now, when 'majority' started attempting an early-exit, it is the law
that was needed to be changed, not the 'attitude' or tendency!
Whereas, when employees become a 'flab', the doors for an exit are
re-christened as 'golden-handshake', instead of the already-posh-name
of 'voluntary-retirement'... It is the exodus of people who left
early, that got into the minds of those who were late, and they too
quite inadvertently referred to their own exit routes as “VRS”,
instead of bare 'VR'.. the schematic pattern got embedded into the
mind, with no exit-route!... Same problem as that
sweet-build-up... some things stay unto the last! Oh yes, the mind
gathers so much of an overdose that when we try to purge it, that is
when it does the blow-up job! Exit doors never match its size...!
The contents of the mind,
seldom ensures an exit-route, and instead it ensures a 'vestibuled
entry' if at all needed, as/for a change of 'class'! Oh! What an idea
sir jee! And now, the mind has to slim itself out, no exit route for
it...(A 'divorce' option does not work as an 'exit-route', and
instead, it just diversifies! Maybe that is why, the ancients did
not 'provide' that 'divorce' even ritualistically/etc!)... And
either it is a wholesale-style, or a retail-option... While the
slimming process is initiated consciously, the entry-routes get
widened... subscription is 'free' as always... the mind subscribes
to new ideas.. that is where spiritual masters ensure that the body
offers the least of problems, while the sensory perceptions are tamed
to get withdrawn consciously!
I somehow got into that
'seeking mode' of exit routes, the right-ways, the right kind, the
right-routes, right from the childhood, and it did come handy on a
pathless path (when the path itself is pathless, where is the entry
or exit route with-in sight?!!!)
Exitingly yours,
(Excitingly or otherwise,)
psn 3rd January, 2015)
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