Ignorance, Science and Fantasy

There have been some obnubilating times in all of our lives when we and even the world are ready to kid with self and on apparently no probable ground. We know nothing will happen but still we keep looking as if the Queen will scare the shit out of Bihar police. Well, the uncanny resemblance is clearly for my purpose to justify how gravitated this sedimentary foxing “pineal stuff” of our brain is. Well yeah it just might be about me. But it is surely funny to make fun. But, anyways I guess the meteor shower of 1997 must back me up here. We made a lot fool of ourselves. I remember remaining awake all night and barely reaching 30 fire streaks (and 100 wishes) across the sky.

Anyways, it was around those days as far as I remember. I remember that I was a teen and I remember that I hated girls and I remember that until those days I didn’t realize I look like an ass. It was winter as I clearly remember walking as a GOGO (topless) girl on the roof at nights so that I would become fair. I got resistive to cold weather conditions instead. I had some interest in astronomy not only because I was curious but also I was 100% sure that Neil and Edwin had taken giant leaps for mankind. As a part of my chores I looked up into the deep black sky with some cosmos bantam creations. I noticed the red planet Mars near the horizon. I kept watching that for sometime and noticed its apparent revolution around earth. It was pretty fast. After sometime my father came to the roof and I pointed him the planet Mars as if I had discovered it a few minutes ago. And then my brother joined. The planet moved towards our over head quite fast. It was unusual. I easily counted myself among the few number of eye witness who are going to be on TV the very next day for reporting this unusual cosmological phenomenon. Then in a few minutes the planet started blinking. To quickly evade the little disgrace from my brother and father I switched to comet from planet. But comets never blink – but who cared then as I was a genius astronomer among the 3 of us. Then my brother started expressing his outlawed views. He caught the name UFO and I don’t want to mention anymore. My father scolded both of us for wasting his money and not fulfilling the ethnicity of being boys of the science age and for crapping about comets, planets and UFOs. He stated something far simpler –it might be an airplane or a satellite. We argued and I had almost lost my last smidge of self respect and by that time there were more of them –all blinking brown lights and coming towards us faster. My father and I had no opinions left but my brother had watched “Independence day”. My father went back. My brother too left probably to fulfill his last day wish on earth. I remained there to live up to my curiosity and also to become fair in chilly (15 degree centigrade) winter night.

After a little while those blinking things blinked in a different rate and also came towards me with a slower speed. After some 1 hour from the start those things were clearly visible to naked eye. Those were small hot air balloons with fire inside them and those balloons were heart shaped. It was a valentines day and 10 -20 of those hot air balloons were released from Saheed Nagar –A Sahiey place in Bhubaneswar and they flew north wards carried by the wind and also not much differently by the mind.