FLIGHT TO ECSTASY
She had no parents. No brother or sister or relatives. In her
childhood, she believed that she had fallen from the sky. But later
she knew that human beings do not fall from the sky. Maybe, it was from
somewhere else, she convinced herself.
It is not only the want of relatives that made her an orphan.
She was deaf and dumb and so sound and speech were also not related to
her. She knew only day and night and there was nothing called time in
her mind. Being timeless, she was ageless too. She hardly saw the sun,
since she always walked with a stoop and sat with her face towards the
earth. But she always sat looking at the moon whenever it was there.
And she had no home and slept below a small tree with very large
leaves at a deserted area outside the town, after begging and getting a
little food from some hotel. Even during heavy rain and lighting, she
peacefully slept at that place.
She never begged for or accepted money and believed that whoever gave her something to eat, were somehow related to her.
It was a moonlit night. She was sitting below her small tree.
There was nobody in the vicinity. She was looking at the moon thinking
that she might have fallen from the moon since it was looking kindly at
her.
