Beneath The Stars

And after a long and exhausting day at the office, I decided to go meet some friends. A huge hall full of people, four friends in a corner, engrossed in a conversation, waiting for the cities most awaited gigs to start. Scheduled at 8.30pm, we waited for 3 hours. Finally, about 1 in the morning, after a beautiful music show we left for our homes.

Walking down the alley around 2.30 in the morning, with one of my closest friends, I felt an urge to stop in that moment. Capture the sweet breeze of monsoons, the twinkling of the stars and the silence of the moment. A silence only broken by our thoughts, our aspirations, our dreams. In those thoughts, converged no one’s rules or boundaries. I had a chance to go back and guess the second best thing, to choose what I wanted to do in that moment. I was liberated of the gravity.

Yes, it reminded me of my current favorite song: Defying Gravity and how it spoke exactly what I meant. And I had made my decision, I was done accepting limits, I had to leap. I had to explore. I had to step out of the cocoon I had been in for so long. I had decided to open up.

We sat across the house on a bench, staring at the limitless sky. Talking about everything, work, college, friends, lost love. Laughing on our stupidities, freeing ourselves of burdens we had carried for so long. Realizing we had changed ourselves, but not knowing here we were headed. But we knew, we did not wish to know. Knowing would have meant meeting destinations. And as we kept staring at the limitless sky above, we knew, this was what our choices looked like- limitless and immeasurable.