Enlightenment !!!!!!

It was a gloomy afternoon when the alarm on my mobile rang. I just opened my sleepy eyes to check the time; 14:00. For a nocturnal (i.e, nightshifter), this was like midnight. Cursing myself for setting the alarm at this time, I threw the phone somewhere on the bed and closed my eyes just to be woken up by the doorbell ringing. I ignored the rings and tried to sleep but soon there was heavy knocking. I had to get up. Angrily, I walked to the door and opened it. My sleep spoiler was a credit card fellow looking for some Hariprasad. Giving him dirty looks, I shooed the guy away and jumped on my bed again. Immediately, the power goes off. "Damn, No more sleep" I said to myself. I'm one of those guys who cannot sleep without a fan on. Cursing the electricity board, I sat on the bed wondering why is all this happening. I just picked up my other phone and started downloading my mails (yeah, I use 2 phones, one a normal Sony Ericsson walkman series and the other Moto Q9h which I use to check my mails and browse internet). Suddenly, I remembered its my off tonight. Quickly I jumped out of my bed and started with my wake-up chores as I dint wanna waste any of my off day time. This day was a little different than my usual offs. My roomie was out of station and I was not meeting my girl today, so I had a lot of time all for myself. So I decided to skipped my coffee at home and to have coffee at the neighboring Barista.

On my way, something kept bothering me from inside. It was like a voice inside me telling me to go somewhere. I thought I was missing my coffee a little too much. I reached Barista and started sipping my coffee. Every bit of caffeine entering my system instead of soothing me, was making me more and more uneasy and inner voice was getting more and more louder but not so loud enough for me to interpret it. I thought may be it was just the hunger that was making me a little irritable and decided to eat something. My next stop, KFC, Forum mall. I ordered for my usual Zinger burger with Zinger chicken and some Cola. I usually come out of KFC with my Serotonin levels high but not today. I was still not able to figure out what exactly was I missing. I was feeling an urge like never before, but still not able to interpret it. Somehow, I kept wandering aimlessly around the mall and reached Landmark (a place with lots of books, toys, stationary, CDs/DVDs, etc), dont really know why I entered that place. This place was always on my boring places list. As I had nothing to do, I wandered around the place. I just felt that my snappiness had reduced and I was feeling calm from inside. I was wondering, was I destined to come here? all the waking up drama, two of my bigtime addictions (Barista Coffee and Zinger) not satisfying me, and I unconsciously walking up to this place, did all this mean something? Did I plan to buy something? What did this place have? Books but I hate books. Whatever it was, I was feeling very elated being at this place. By now, I was so calm, I could hear my inner self very clearly saying "I wanna read a book" This was really funny. I never liked reading novels. I used to laugh at my friends who used to read novels. There was a like a conflict happening within me. Read book or no. Finally, I decided to pick some book. I dint know what to pick and I surely dint wanna call up some of my novel reading friends and humiliate myself. I thought for a while "novel and I, no way" but I could not convince myself. I had to pick a book.

Soon, I was standing in the queue with a book in my hand for billing. For me, the wait for billing felt like I was waiting for entry into Heaven. It was a moment of joy like no other. I had never ever felt this kind of a feeling. So I decided to call this special day as the "Day of Enlightenment" and welcomed myself into the world of books. Happy Journey to myself. ;)

By the way, the book that I picked was If God Was a Banker by Ravi Subramanian. I have absolutely no idea how the book is or why did I choose this book. Anyways, a start is a start.