Tick Tock
Tock Tick
Tick Tock!
Exam in 11 hours , 3 new questions to do and 34 more to revise. They hadn’t slept in 3
days due to the previous 3 back to back exams…..
Crushed
Red bull cans and empty mugs which once contained black coffee lay on the hostel
corridor along with 4 girls who were splayed across sheetless mattresses dumped
onto the corridor from their respective rooms. The corridor overlooked the normally
empty grounds of the hostel which was now patrolled by sleepless students
scrambling about in despair.
JJ’s
eyelids were closing in on her against her will. Not now baby… only 1 more exam
then Freedom 4evaaa! Almost echoing the same sentiments, came a voice from the
other side of the mattress with a hollow , dreamlike quality “You know what is
the true freedom? Sleeping forever…for eternity”
The
voice belonged to Kalra , she who loved saying crazy things for the sake of
drama and she who sometimes was drama itself in a human shape. The third one , ‘Rambo’
had given up on life after being utterly exhausted and had taken the student’s
route to conquer it – apply some Zandu Balm on bread and Bam! You got your
energy. In rambo’s case since she was a bit big , she overestimated how much
she needed and had way too much and now she was high as high can be and was
just rolling around and annoying others.
Wait.
What was that noise? Oh that’s anan
“After
a certain point you just have to admit that NOBODY gives a flying ___ about
what Plato , Aristotle or Aquinas gotta say. What about what we have got to
say? I had no say when papa wanted me to follow his footsteps and become a
lawyer. I must be the only person in India who wanted to become an engineer and
wasn’t allowed to become one!”
She
moped in her shrill sad voice as she always did. Her friends had only eye rolls
to offer her. Rolling Rolling Rolling
That’s
what happens when you realise that you hate your career choice every exam time
and resolve to tell dad you are quitting, only to come back placated, thanks to
the latest iPhone he bribed you with. You lose the moral ground pretty fast. Sorry Anan
“
If you keep telling me this story I’ll end up writing it instead of this Hobbes
theory lololol” JJ started crying out in laughter. She is losing it! And yes she
is one of those cases who ‘say’ LOL. God bless them.
So
JJ continued with her Hobbes theory despite lack of sleep and overdose of
laughter. That dude apparently believed that law is a social contract that the
first generation of beings voluntarily gave up their rights for and the forthcoming generations
have no option to get out of it. Isn’t consent material to any contract? This
is just plain fraud and coercion on the state’s part! I don’t want skl ,
college , job , government , taxes , pathan notes and red bull cans! But I am
forced to take part in all this because someone already decided what ‘civilisation’
is. Why can’t there be a strip of land where people who don’t wanna be part of
the contract can like chill and make rocks out of fire without the government
asking us to pay taxes. wHYY?
But
before she could Rambo woke up with a start. She looked into Kalra’s eyes and
smiled serenely. Kalra got scared and asked her “ what is wrong with you
Behen..”
“
Behen! I have figured out life” she spoke manically not unlike a religious
fanatic “ We have been going about it all wrong. The point of life is not being
awake , the point of life , the point is to sleep! We are supposed to find food
for energy purposes , eat them and go to sleep where we can live in our dreams
, where anything and everything is possible. There is no limits of logic and
physics in our head. We could enjoy being a millionaire and have an eight course
meal and feel everything. Isn’t life all about feeling and perceiving. It is
not what it is but what it can be. With more sleep and practice I believe we
can control our dreams and that is how we fulfil our destiny. What the hell are
we doing reading Plato and Aristotle when we can be our own thinkers? When did
the world decide we have finished establishing rules. Omg I’m gonna copyright
all this. Yipee! Bye losers , I’m becoming famous”
Rambo
got up and ran to other parts of the hostel to scare more poor souls. The other
3 silent looked at each other not sure what they should. Wake up the warden and
tell her that Rambo has lost it? But who wasn’t losing it? Some only more than
others.
“
We ALL have theories and ideas. But we don’t publish it and force other people
to study it in one day and make them go mad” wailed anan.
“I
don’t think Plato set our exam papers anan..” quipped JJ.
“
Arey JJ , no one wants your stupid logic. Okay I am getting bored. Teach me
something about your South India.” butted in Kalra
“
Kalra , if you can at least tell me the names of the 4 Southern states , I’ll
try”
“I
know that your name is Jayalalitha and that’s funny cuz your dead CM had the
same name. Okay don’t get pissed. Mallu Land, Madras , telugu nadu and the
other one I forgot”
“
Wow , I hope that you can retain at least the name of the people you have to
write about tomorrow”
Mildly
offended Kalra lashed out “ Tell me, does your Chinnai have Punjabi food like
naan and butter chicken?”
JJ
lost it , “ Enough of this b.s , I don’t live in a village. Obviously we have
everything!”
“Saali
, what I wrong with villages. Don’t show off your big city arrogance”
“
You started it , you racist prick!”
Sensing
a cat fight which no one had the energy to fight Anan chipped in , “Guys! Don’t
let Plato destroy our friendship. This is ALL plato’s fault!”
They
hadn’t come to an agreement on that quite yet when a loud noise came from above
shocking them. No guys it wasn’t Plato coming back to defend his now tarnished
image but it was the drug addled Rambo! She had managed to find a dangerously
high place to stand on.
“
Everything is fake! Dreams are what is. To prove this truth which no one seems
to believe I am going to jump from here because I know that I am trapped in an
eternal nightmare called reality.Cheer me on ladkiyon!”
Her
friends gaped in horror as she took the plunge and came crashing down. Her
eyelids were shut firmly and finally..
Tick Tock
Tock Tick
Tick Tock
The clock was
ticking in the exam hall and Rambo woke up from her dreams. Didn’t know how
much of that was a dream! Did she have zandu balm , was she on the roof , lol
did she have friends by the name JJ , Kalra and Anan even? She didn’t know
anything , couldn’t focus. However , she did recall the answer to Plato’s
Republic. Truly this is all his fault.
