An experience of the lifetime...

Some memories are meant to be as fresh as you can imagine. One of such memories, is I feel like sharing today..

Just the day before, prelim exams of my higher secondary board had finished. After many sleepy reading nights and alarm-awaking mornings, I was in a mood of sleeping and waking up without an alarm ring... whenever I wake up..however I wake up..I dint care that day.. I dint expect that to be so soon though. And leave aside "so soon", the way i woke up, i could not have imagined in my weirdest dream.

Early in the morning at around 8.30 am, my bed was moving to and fro..i could literally listen to it hitting the wall in trance. I couldn't figure out was it my dream, was it the alarm? what was it? It took me few seconds and shouts from people around to realize that it was an Earthquake...

Earthquake..how does it feel like? how does it sound like? how does it look like? how does it experience like? i had only heard sometime on TV or may be in some science magazines like Safari ( "Budhdhishaali balako mate nu magazine"- Gujaratis will understand this; the rest, never mind.). Actually it wasn't even too hard to realize that "This was the One!".

It took just about 5 seconds to get out of sleep mode to rush mode. Everyone was rushing to the stairs...to get down to ground floor..to get down to earth... I joined the rush..on my way to joining the party, i saw milk spilled all over in my kitchen.. crockery falling over from the showcase...and what not.

Everyone was horrified..but this wasn't it! As I came out of the building in open space, what I saw in front of me was devastating.. A 10 storied building falling like a sand palace....A 10 storied building was turned into a 3 storied pile of stones and cement within no time...within no time at all... There must have been at least a hundred people in that building. A hundred lives...A thousand dreams..all coming under a pile in a minute without any intimation...without any fault of theirs ! Every person standing on the road besides the destroyed building, amazed, must had a thought in his mind at least once that "it could be me under that mountain of concrete". I had not related myself to being dead more closer ever than that day.

As the time passed by it was getting bigger and bigger and more frightening. News coming from other parts of the state were even more shocking. Whole city of Bhuj was heard to have flattened to this 1 minute of dance of nature. People were preferring to be at some place where they can see the sky above them instead of the ceiling of their home. The ceiling which they considered "the safe home sweet home" a few hours back. The ceiling of home, to build which they had probably poured their life's earnings. they were ready to give it up for their life that day.Even later, Aftershocks kept people frightened enough not to enter any concrete structures for days.

Who would ever imagine a day to start this way? how many days of one's life stand at this point after 10 minutes of waking up? hardly any..right? It was a real Shocker!

This is what you call An experience of the lifetime, don't you?

Optimist or Pessimist ?!?

THE WORST IS YET TO COME !

Is this a view of an Optimist or a Pessimist ?

the-only-left-blog-id.blogspot.com

I feel the brainstorming to write blogs starts with choosing the Blog ID itself.

It's been almost a week now since i've been trying, along with a close friend, to find an id for starting his new blog. The Bubbles or the Pop-ups or the Balloons that come to our mind to be kept as blog id, already exist! :(

Eventually, the only name which could be available according to me is
"the-only-left-blog-id.blogspot.com" !

So my dear friend, I wish you a happy satisfying blog id for your blog and happy blogging!
:D