Passages....

Avion firma exists within terra firma, just like so many lives that exist within one. From the life of an easy-going undergrad student to that of a journalist in the making out there and finally to the live newsroom- these are the passages that I have walked through till now. Each time, things have started on Ground Zero..and each time - things have been done and undone.Obviously, the family feuds of South Indian politicians or lip-locking controversies are not exactly what concern me in these transitory stages. Hence, dubious devotion. It is the apprehension, anxiousness, the first bead of sweat trickling down the neck - the so many aspects of that 'first time' that matter. Just like the fact that only one's wife or girlfriend happens to be the most beautiful female on the earth for her partner. Whatever be the outcome of each stage in life - there is a beauty in it - something that my inner eye is only learning to see right now - after the various stages of learning and unlearning.

This is the avion firma for each one of us - the imaginations and the observations that are firmly gripped by the subconscious atmosphere. So, it is stronger than terra firma...and it is transcribed in the diary of the mind as memories - real and unreal - that can never be discarded as excess baggage.

Let the devotion be dubious - for all things material and immaterial. But, let it not overshadow the journey of the avion firma...