Experience: Escalator

Sometimes I walk upstairs on a down coming escalator in a semi rushed mall. What do I get besides attention from people, a sense of achievement by doing something weird and very few times widened eyes of the security person almost screaming at me "next time you do it, I "ll rip you apart" ? I get a glance of life. So much of efforts and so less results, and the feeling of everything are against me. Anyway, I realized and started thanking for the free things I got till now. I am happy for family and friends which I got free of cost, happy for that red colored double-decker when I was 5 or may be 6, happy for the wrist watch my father gifted me almost 2 weeks after I lost my Mickey Mouse wrist watch and I still can't figure out where has it gone? I am happy for the all the free lunches and dinners I had- invited or uninvited, happy for my body- though in no way it resembles Arnold but its quite fine and its working that too for me, happy for this deadly combo - yes! my mind and my body, happy for the promotion I got and everybody congratulated me with statements I never understood completely but it almost meant that I am a lucky bastard- I know this is not always the case, it was just a co-incident and I am glad that it happened to me. I am happy that I fell in love with a girl who I believe was very much interested in me and even sometimes I got the feeling that I am perfect for her. Anyway, nothing really happened, we never talked and finally I came to know that she was married. Somebody even told me that she is happily married which I never wanted to believe and I am happy for those feelings I got at that time which now look quite weird to me. I must admit now, I still have those feelings. I feel happy every time my good neighbor's dog barks at me, I think he likes me, I am happy for all the black-white-round-oval-beautiful-weird and sometimes half-f*cked up faces looking at me and smiling, I am even happy for two Rupees discount on 75 grams Dettol Soap, all in all- I am happy for this life. This is not the only thing I learn every time I do escalator exercise, there is some thing more which greatly affect my life and that is - appreciating the efforts I made even for those for which I got no results.

P.S: Ladies and gentleman, let me have the pleasure to introduce Mr. Chintan to you. Mr. Chintan is a character I feel is very close to me thou' he is 8 years elder to me. He was the one who had a glance of life while Escalator act, though I was the one who started this weird thing. Chintan only got promoted not me, he fell for a married woman and bla bla; and he was the one wrote the shit you just read. Anyway, I like him alot. Cheers! for Chintan.

-Jasdeep Mandia