Wheel- A tale of endless spinning
September 05, 2014
10 am in the morning and I swayed in the streets along the
countryside gandering at everything. Two streets off and I was stuck at the
courtyard of a hut. Covered in hay stack it had walls of brick that held it. The
wall owned many cracks that smuggled light into and eventually opened in an
entrance covered by rugged sheet of cloth. None of these caught my sight but
the spinning wheel at the wall’s feet. Covered in layers of indistinct mud, it
spun endlessly. It splashed drops of muddied water at the wall and the potter,
who himself looked nothing less than a statue of mud unless he decided to draw
his stick to spin the wheel. I stood there with my eyes transfixed on the transition
that was going to impose a question on mankind.
The potter drew his stick to spin the wheel, this time more
vigorously. He bestowed a block of clay to the wheel which curiously spun aping
the nature of time…it spun like the never stopping time and with it spun the
clay too. The potter drew his hands closer to the clay and touched it. Like
a sorcerer’s touch to a lifeless body, the clay started to take shape. Molding itself!!
The wheel spun with vigorous enthusiasm as if it was curious about the
consequences of the touch… as if it was curious about the clay’s fate. The clay
continued to mold itself but the potter’s touch has decided its fate already. The
touch has defined its existence already like the million years of humankind which
has endlessly spun on the wheels of time molding itself by the touch of his
society, by the touch of his thoughts, by the touch of his experiences….and
like the one which will continue to spin for a million years to come seeking
for a touch that would better his existence, justify his eras of evolution and
a touch that would define him finally. He spins like the clay on the wheel…. Waiting
for the touch of his soul!! He spins!!! I chuckled.
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6 comments
Seriousness around? Is that the exam effect? :p
ReplyDeleteBut yeah mankind and society two words having no meaning.
yeah yet these two influence the very existence of each other!!! and the exam effect is definitely there ! ;) :)
Deletethank you aman for reading
DeleteAnd it is still hard to believe that u could write so well! U should definitely write more serious stuff! :D
ReplyDeleteroger that!! sure yasmeen.... thanku for reading
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