The road lead to nowhere and he stared at it for a long time. Finally, Simon decided to take that road. Oh, I forgot to introduce Simon to you, the most uncomplicated person on the planet with non-conflicting thoughts and conflicting emotions. I know that seems an impossible combination, but then writers cant have the same old tall, dark handsome characters or the Machiavellian types. So here is an improbable character making an equally improbable journey to nowhere.
When Simon was 5, he wanted to be a truck driver. He loved watching huge red trucks that was driven and fancied owning one when he grew much bigger. When he was 8, he wanted to own a farm like his grandfather did. He could drive the tractor all day long, watch the huge fields, yell at the labourers and in the evenings sit and listen to jazz just like his grandfather did. By the time he was 13 he had decided to be a pilot so that he could fly to different places; Australia, Malaysia, and all the other countries that the geography teacher used to talk about.
At 25,you would expect him to have it all figured out, engineering didn't help with that and hence the road to nowhere. Is there a city called nowhere? Yes, there is. In Simon's mind, it is all very true, very real.
p.s. the character in the story is named after my student in class.I had promised him that I will write a story for him. Rest all is fictional, only the name is borrowed :)
1 comment:
very good. There was one Simon whom I stayed with in a research station (Pilikkode near Kasaragod). He was little challenged, mentally. We did a lot of pranks on him and finally he ran away fearing our "magic spells". (he feared red flowers and one fine morning we kept thechi poo which he saw and then he requested for another quarters to stay)
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