NOT AFRAID TO START ALL OVER

The truck was loaded, her parents looked around the house,

was anything left behind by mistake, every nook and corner scanned; none, they found...

Tiffany stuck her nose to the window, looking out the neighbourhood,

a place she had come to love so much, all the new friends she had recently made...

She had barely settled in and started to enjoy it all,

when her parents announced it was time for them to move again,

the lease had expired, the company didn't halt their employees at any place

for more than three years...


'Come Tiffany, her sister squealed from out, its time for us to go',

strange, her sister was more than excited to discover whats to come

than regret what they were leaving behind...

Every three years, moving new place, getting settled, making new friends

then repeating what had become almost a norm...

This time Tiffany held fast to the window grill,

she didn't want to leave the cozy nest...


But move they did; start all over, they did,

It happened all the while till Tifanny grew up,

It was finally time for her to explore world on her own,

She found all those constant moves in childhood made her quite experienced,

and unafraid of what could be coming next...


“Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.” ❤❀❤

THAT OSTRICH-LIKE BEHAVIOUR

Kangana Ranaut once said, India gots its real independence in 2014 only. What did she mean? Didn't India exist before 2014? She meant after Modi won 2014 elections, only then India came into existance. Of course now that she is a BJP MP, we know the real motives behind that statement. However, such sweeping statements has darker meaning too. People not wanting to recognize or accept the real facts. They are unwilling even to acknowledge past developments. Did India suddenly came into being only after Modi won in 2014? Like really? Similarly, in our neighbouring country of Pakistan, they are tought right from school days that Pakistan came into being only after 1947; that they didn't have any history before that. While its true 'Pakistan' as a country did come into existance only after 1947, can one just say that there was no civilization or a past history in that region? Pakistanis truly believe there was nothing before 1947. Sad state of affairs, as it was in these regions that the massive Indus valley civilization thrived. To disown one's history and ancestry altogether is what can be termed as ostrich behaviour. They don't want to acknowledge the past; and rubbish all stories be it positive or negative.

There was once a classical musician living with his family in an old house. The house was the typical tin-roofed structure with lots of wooden work, as used to be the architecture during olden times in that area. The house was engulfed in bougainvilleas; and, its branches that grew quickly always seem to hide the house from rest of the world. Such a house with so much foliage looked quite quaint and even spooky at times, so to speak. The musician had four sons, who over time got married and had kids. Initially, the whole family lived together. The man grew old and ill-health over time meant his time on earth was nearing the end. His old mother had passed away a year before him. His wife however died within months of his demise, which was strange as she was not suffering from any known ailment and was quite younger than him. After these three back-to-back deaths, suddenly, one of the sons who was in his early thirties died from a heart attack one day. And within next few months, one of the daughter-in-law suffered from cancer and succumbed to it. With so many deaths happening within such short span of time, the rest of the brothers decided to move out of the house, as they feared the house was cursed by some bad omen. For a while they lived in another place and then suddenly came the news that they sold off the property at just less than a quarter of the market value. Such a hasty sell-off did spark rumours if the place was indeed having some negative energy around it. For many years the new owners did nothing, and the place lay abandoned. Due to its appearance it got a reputation of being haunted, and people gossipped how so many family members of the old owner died within months of each other in that house. As more time went by, the new owners finally pulled off the old structure and started new construction. They built a guest house. There was quite a delay too and it took almost a decade to finally complete it. They however invested a lot in the new structure and if someone didn't know of the past history of the place, no one could assume that place had seen so many deaths and strange occurrences. The new building was posh and very attractive, so unlike the old tin-roof house.

Within weeks of its opening, the guest house became quite popular and visitors started pouring in. Being near top tourist places and in main city center, it was a busy place. However, stories too started coming out soon about what the guests in that guest house experienced during their stay. Some weird things would almost always happen at night. Furniture would move, strange footsteps, someone passing by, knocking on door when there was no one, cold pockets of air and temperature drops frequently, odd whispers etc, that place started to acquire a reputaion of being haunted. The new owners didn't mind the new found fame of the guest house at first, as it generated more curious customers and foot falls; but over time the dark reputaion became quite overwhelming for them to handle. With social media, stories spread fast. Instead of trying to look into the past as to what actually happened and the history of the place, the mysterious deaths, and why they had got the property dirt cheap, they started blaming the messengers instead. They refuted the rumours outright and started threatening everyone with legal recourse instead. Sure they had invested a lot in the new building, but can the past be erased? That place did have a history of strange quick deaths in the previous family that owned, and their rapid exit from it. But to deny everything as if there was absolutely nothing before the new owners took over the place is like being an ostrich. Refusing to look into the issue or facts, instead pretending the issue didn't exist altogether; and threateing legal action at whoever even mentioned it.



What is ostrich-like behaviour? It is a colloquial phrase for a person who refuses to recognize the truth, reality, etc.: a reference to the ostrich's supposed habit of burying its head in the sand when confronted with danger it can’t avoid. The ostrich effect, also known as the ostrich problem, is a cognitive bias that describes how people often avoid negative information, including feedback that could help them monitor their goal progress. Instead of dealing with the situation, we bury our heads in the sand, like ostriches ( wiki ). ( Images - Google )

THEY ARE A SPECIAL BREED

Invisible to the naked eye, they are the lords of the night sky.

Like lightning flashes, they appear and vanish, moves faster than the speed of light.

They look over all the realms, the seven skies above and seven down, nothing misses their hawk eye.

They watch humans too and and are mostly amused at the petty fights, for, they've seen the real wars of heaven, hell and beyond.

Of demons and angels; of entities, of species of every possible imaginations.

They are a special breed, not ordinary nor common; they're rarest of rare, unique and one of a kind.




❤❀❤This 100 word post is for friday fictioneers, SixSentence ( Image Copyright – © Roger Bultot )