As usual I was waiting for my thoughts to return. I had sent them up the elevator at the mall. I could see them inside the claustrophobic glass capsule slowly moving up. I was waiting patiently by the elevator doors when someone in a guard's uniform confronted me. He wanted to know whether I was ogling at the women in the glass elevator. He laughed out loud when I told him about my thoughts. He pushed me out after threatening me with dire consequences. Now, here I am staring at the screen waiting for my thoughts to ring the doorbell.
He couldn't keep count of the days or nights as he was always surrounded by darkness. No he wasn't blind nor did someone blindfold him. He fell in to a deep dark hole that's all. He was rushing to catch the last train home. Since it was getting late he decided to take the shortcut. Before he fell, all that he saw was a lamppost by the tracks. The impact of the fall switched off the lights in his brain. When he recovered, it was dark. He tried to feel his way around. But to his surprise all that he could feel was the darkness around him. It was as if he was encased in a thick gooey dark liquid. It held him tight. It moved with his movements. It felt as if he was part of the liquid. He floated in it. He never felt hungry or cold. In fact he felt comfortable. For the first time, he felt safe. Slowly he began to forget what he was and whom he knew. In this darkness, it was impossible to wrack his brain. Everything was slowly getting shrouded in darkness. Until that day when he ...
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