Dream Lecturer

It has been a lull day after seeing my results going negative for the second time. Still, my parents were very supportive and they wanted me to pursue this professional course and finish it off at my convenience and to that extent I am always lucky. I quickly decided to join a coaching class which was offering rapid revision sessions.

When I entered the class I had a strange feeling, a déjà vu, as if I have came to that place earlier itself. When I saw the students around me, to my astonishment I found many faces somewhat similar to some other persons, with whom I would have worked or my college mates etc, but they were just look alike.

Then entered the lecturer, who was from a typical orthodox South Indian Brahmin family, wearing dhoti and a shining shirt with a “U” shaped holy marked creating an impression and commanding respect. I am seeing him for the first time. He started the class and explained the concepts with crystal clear clarity.

Days progressed, and throughout the sessions, I had a strange feeling about the people attending the classes and the whole environment. Whenever I tried to make an eye contact with those persons whom I felt that they are resemblances, they look back at me as if they too knew me for quite a period of time and I was taken aback.

On the final day of the class, our lecturer was concluding and giving ideas as to how to approach the professional exams. Suddenly during the course of lecture he looked at me and asked to stand up. I thought that he was asking someone besides me to stand. He became more serious and called me by my name and asked me to stand up. I was shocked and stood up wondering what I did.

He smiled at me and asked, “Are you feeling something strange or uncomfortable that you don’t have words to explain?” I was perplexed and shivering as he was literally telling what I was going through all these days. I replied, “No sir.” Then he started laughing and said “Tell me the truth and be honest.” I reiterated whatever I said earlier.

Then he told, “Let me make things easy for you. Just patiently look around you and tell me your opinion.” I looked around slowly and one by one, students started vanishing. I could not believe my eyes. Only a bunch of students were left and I couldn’t believe the happenings around me and looked at him. “Now, your opinion please?” he asked. “Yes, yes, and please stop this.” was my reply in a shaky voice. His smiled and said “Be calm and now look around you.”

When I turned around there were few students sitting whom I had earlier felt that they were resemblance of some other person. Suddenly their faces started changing slowly, many of the faces become recognizable. Most of them used to be my peers from my college days and those who used to be my colleagues when I worked as an apprentice and these people have finished this professional course and are settled. After looking at them I hung my head low. Tears were brimming in my eyes because of my inability of 2 things – for not accepting who they are and my inability to finish this course.

My lecturer’s hand reached to my chin and lifted my face up and told, “This is the reality son. Look around you.” I looked around. He continued, “People around you are progressing, but for you.” I was seeing them and they too started dissolving in thin air, one by one. The hall was almost empty as one by one started vanishing but for me and my lecturer.

I looked him eye to eye and he told, “Did you see them, they achieved something, but at the end all these known face vanished uniformly. You have to realize that you can go far beyond them and win over the sands of time. You are someone special. Just think about it. I have done my duty.” and he gradually disappeared and only the holy mark which he used have in his forehead was there for a while and a bright light shown upon my face.

Then I saw my brother holding a pen torch upon my eye. I got frustrated and woke up and shouted at him. He told that my eyes were partially closed and tears were coming and he was afraid to wake me up and that is why he did like that. Then I realized that all this was a lengthy dream in a short sleep. Suddenly I looked at my brother, and asked him to come besides me. He came. I asked him, “Shouldn’t you be in Germany? Aren’t you the project manager? How come you are here? What the hell is happening around me?”

I woke up with sweat and anguish in my air-conditioned by early morning 3.30 on the day when my third round of professional exams begun.

Borderless World

Every now and then disputes relating to border always arises. The leaders of the respective nations shall talk about the issue and God only knows what they are talking and this will prolong years together, if this is going to be in East Asia. Later, mightier nation will have its chunk of land after a brief period of time. If a border dispute is there in West Asia the one which presses the button and proves it military power shall have its piece of cake. Not withstanding the fact that the other country shall also retaliate and United Nations later coming in offering solace and these kind of stereo type dramas have been witnessed by the world.

Similarly, to keep a check in the growth of Asian countries, certain countries bred its own set of extremist groups. Later, its own loyal bread started attacking its master because of lack of trust. Cleverly, they were branded as terrorist and those nations which bred them called themselves as counter terrorists and started their drama.

End of the day what is happening? We are cheating ourselves. To grab what is lost terrorist groups are formed by weak minded people and to combat them counter terrorist groups are also formed by foolish people. What is the solution? One keeps on attacking the other and the other spends his lifetime to foils his attempts of attacking at the cost of taxes paid by the people of respective nations.

What does this show? People around the globe do not have faith in each another. We draw up our own borders and pile up nuclear heads and have allies whom we don’t even trust. Then conduct a get together in UN and agree to REDUCE nuclear war heads and NOT ERADICATE the same.

I have always wanted a world without any borders between countries where, people can move from one place to another and mingle with each other and co exists peacefully. A world in which people can move with open mind and share their thoughts freely and be more peaceful avoiding this hatred and racism. We can get know one another more personally rather than virtually and listen to them and understand their feelings. We can share whatever we have without expecting anything in return and live a joyous life. We can move and live together as “homo sapiens”.