DAY 94

When you ask someone, where were you or what were you doing when you heard that Kennedy was killed or Indira Gandhi was shot dead or when Rajiv Gandhi was bombed or when the Tsunami wiped out villages and towns or when the planes rammed into the twin towers - chances are that, even after many many years they will remember what they were doing at that exact moment.

I call these the side-bar visuals. They are different from the bigger picture but they are so intrinsically connected to the big picture. They tether us to the bigger picture. They become the anchor points which makes us stop and ask ourselves some life changing questions or find answers to some unanswered questions in relation to the bigger picture. So the side-bars will always be etched in your mind in association with that life-changing moment.

This image is one such anchor point in my life.

I was working on this photograph when the bigger event occurred. It was not a world-changing event. But it was definitely a moment that gave me an answer to a question that I have been asking myself (and others of me too) for most part of my life.

I usually have some nice instrumental music playing in the background or listen to some of my favourite speakers while working on a picture.

And in the background I heard my favourite speaker saying:

THERE IS NO ONE THING THAT YOU WILL EVER FIND THAT WILL HOLD YOU IN A PLACE OF COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF EVER MORE.

Bang - I got my answer. I am not a freak for having varied interests in my life and wanting to different things in life. I am not a rolling stone. A rudderless ship for wanting not to dock in any one particular port permanently. .. I am just someone who wants to experience life to its fullest.