Jan 19 - Line for the day

"In the afternoon sun, the landscape seemed to need nothing more than a simple alchemy of light and air and water to burgeon green and ripe."
- Pg 57, Where On Earth Am I? Confusions of a Travelling Man, by Jug Suraiya

In truth this wasn't the first line I saw. It wasn't even the first book I picked. When random book openings (much like the book cricket we used to play at school) refused to yield a satisfactory line...I wrestled with my need to sticking to my own rule of randomness, and with the need to get a line that would get me writing. In frustration, I turned to my significant other to pick a book and then closed my eyes and opened a random page. Mission accomplished...with deviations!

But thats life. Someone who says I will be exactly this way for the rest of my life come what may...I wonder if is that really possible? In this world where we say the only thing constant is change...how can we map out our actions to the perfect T? But if we can't map out our actions..why plan at all? why save at all? why think about the future at all? Because if all we have is the present...why waste it on the future?

The line above...my eyes have skipped so many times over it without actually reading it...I've lost count. Every time I start to read it it goes...In the afternoon sun...landscape...alchemy of light...burgeon green and ripe. And then..Where on Earth am I? Confusions of a Travelling Man. And yes I do wonder..where on earth am I? forget earth...any metaphysical plane...where am I? where am I going? why am I here? Am I really here? Or is this a shadow of me from another plane? And how are my actions relevant in the larger scheme of things? What IS the larger scheme of things? What is 'things'?
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