This morning i woke up with start and dazed. Its still dark around and only soft hum of AC rented the air. i just had a dream which got me thinking. I just happened to dream about someone whom i know as a school kid whom i totally forgotten and got disconnected after i left my school way back in 1996. It was kind of surprising that the person face flashed in my dreams and funnily i dont remember the name of that person, after all its been decade and more. I really wonder how we believe to ferget everything with passage of time though in reality it appears that things are just relegated behind all the layers of our mysterious mind. I wonder why i dreamed the dream that i just dream. i always thought we dream about things that catch our attention of recent past or fantasies for future.
Ruminating over these thoughts i tried to creep back into dream world hoping to find myself in the same dream like Neo in Matrix and find answers to my questions. But no avail.Tossing and turning in bed gave no solution. Well now i am wide awake and sleep slipped out permanently. i just got up ,munched some Marie biscuits and was looking at my collection of old comics on my shelf. All those DC,Marvel comics of vintage evoking the memories of childhood when i had to walk 5 kilometers to buy those Superman and other super hero comics.
Its ironic to find all super heros to have originated from USA. most of all caped and masked heros are from USA. GI Joe is called Americas hero,Superman home town is Smallville in USA,All JLA are americans. I guess Indians and for that matter Asians never needed any super heros to be created either for entertainment or inspiration. We have history and culture that goes back 5000years . Where as America has history only of 500 years or so. No wonder they had to create their own heros .
Indians are bred on stories of valour and heroism since their childhood. Its funny, in West,Religion is taught in sunday schools and where as in
India, its taught by mothers and grand mothers. When i was kid my bed time stories from my mom was more mythological and DD-1 most popular serial was Ramayana or Mahabaratha when all roads were deserted to watch these mythological s serials. Our culture has so many heroic stories from our history we never needed to create new heros for Internet age. We all regaled in stories from 5000 yearpast which can be reflected in our daily lives of common man . How often we come across comparisons like "Sleep like Kumbhakarna", "Strong as Bheem", "Beautiful as Apsara", Panch Pandavas, as sharp as Arjun, Narad muni for some gossip maker etcetc....Its a wonder that 5000 year culture still lives,rules our daily life.
hmmmm....Suns first rays are casting their presence.New day and its Time to rock the world. Well friends, till my next blog.
Aurevoir, Adios,Halstalvista and Sayonara....
