Mirages
What you imagined to be a ship will sail only as far as the horizon in your imagination stretches. And once you blink, you realize it was neither ocean nor horizon, it was shimmering sand instead. The ship has been lying a wreck in that desert since a very very long time. So you blink again, in utter, incredulous, disbelief and the ship has magically transformed into a very grassy slope. The Alpine mountains behind you are picture perfect as are you. Total bliss, total serenity... A swift, gentle, breeze carries a faint fragrance of lily-of-the-valley and snap, your trance breaks and you are standing in the midst of a cacophonous Mumbai street...wondering where all those cars came from? Where do people and crows hurry off to when the sun sets? The bus driver behind you gets impatient and blows his horn angrily at your slow moving car... You wake up on the pristine white sands of Velneshwar. The tide is slowly coming in and gulls and crows circle the sky in search of cheap, fish offals....