Cat Scare
Last night, I slept uneasy. My mind seemed to be regurgitating bad dreams. Full of this dread, I woke up at six in the morning to go to the gym. The lift in my building isn’t working, so I walked down.
From the last landing, I saw a pile of bricks. But I got this flash that I was looking at a heap of severed cat heads. But the heads didn’t look grotesque – they looked as if there were still alive, and the eyes were bright.
It freaked me out completely so I dashed down with my eyes shut. It’s a wonder I didn’t tumble down the stairs. But I ran out of the building, trying to get that image out of my head. Slowly, after I’d walked a few blocks I calmed down. The sharp cold breeze shaking unruly flowerbeds here and there, a couple of old men wearing mufflers and walking by, bird taking a strong twig for its nest - that sort of thing.
And next to an electric pole, I saw the stiff body of a cat…without a head.
If this is life’s way of telling me something, I wish it would shut up already.
From the last landing, I saw a pile of bricks. But I got this flash that I was looking at a heap of severed cat heads. But the heads didn’t look grotesque – they looked as if there were still alive, and the eyes were bright.
It freaked me out completely so I dashed down with my eyes shut. It’s a wonder I didn’t tumble down the stairs. But I ran out of the building, trying to get that image out of my head. Slowly, after I’d walked a few blocks I calmed down. The sharp cold breeze shaking unruly flowerbeds here and there, a couple of old men wearing mufflers and walking by, bird taking a strong twig for its nest - that sort of thing.
And next to an electric pole, I saw the stiff body of a cat…without a head.
If this is life’s way of telling me something, I wish it would shut up already.
Comments
I think you need psychiatric help.
Full of this dread, I woke up at six in the morning to go to the gym. The lift in my building isn’t working, so I walked down.
I know you walked down (cos of the elevator).Assuming you don't live more than 10 flights up and were on your way to the gym, isn't it a good warm up to take the stairs anyways? ;-)
asuph
hey ambuj,
been a long, long time! how are you?
Hey Sanjay,
I don't believe in co-incidences. :-) Oh and the lift is working fine now.
Hey ameet,
Yep...I agree. But I think I'll start enjoying it after a while.
hey asuph,
scary kya? Wait until I make a movie out of it. :-)
relax mukta, you'll be fine
-2nd mistake
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-pravin
read a line by some literary critic called Katherine Raine recently - thot i'd share it :
"The unconscious is innocent of words, but it formulates its desires, and fears, its primordial but profound statements of living experience, in those symbolic forms that haunt our drems"
hmmmmmm - not as startlingly revealatory i guess, as well put :)
good one! he he he!
hello second mistake,
droll...
hi monu,
ok..
yep pravin,
will email you.
Hi Suparna,
yes...very well put. shall google it up soon. :-) Thanks!