The Eagle

 

There was a boy living in a small town, he was 23 years old. His name was Robin. Robin always aspired to be the best in everything from sports to academics and also aspired to be best in his career. Robin wanted to work in government administration, but could not pass the exam. He applied for many jobs after studies, but only secured an average position with an average salary with which he can only lead an average life.

There was nothing wrong with his efforts. Even his friends and acquaintances endorsed this fact. But he could not find success even after hardwork. Whenever he sat idle, he has the tendency to drift into a dream where everything was right for him. On some days, he spent hours dreaming about his ideal life. This tendency of day dreaming kept him going in spite of the average life he was living. This tendency was not ordinary, whenever he drifted, he saw everything with great detail. Even the things he did not know, and always kept track with the changing dynamics of life.

This tendency also had a negative effect, Robin sometimes used to get complacent about his abilities which used to cost him the hard-earned opportunities, but inspite of all the shortcomings, he always hoped for the best.

One day when he was riding his motorcycle on the highway, he saw a truck which was crisscrossing between lanes from left to right and back. Robin wanted to overtake the truck. He waited for the truck to settle down in one lane. After a while the truck settled in the left lane. Robin thought this opportune time to overtake, but just when he rode parallel to the truck, he saw the truck turning towards him steeply. For a second, everything turned white like the time and space has shrunk into nothingness. When regained his consciousness after a second, he found that he has successfully overtaken the truck, but the truck had jumped over the divider to the other side and banged a car head-on. Robin assumed there was little chance that anyone in the car would be alive. Blood spewed on the windsheilds, and suddenly a large sized eagle flew over his head, and after a few moments dissolved in the horizon.

At that point in time, something changed in Robin, it felt like something which has been imprisoned for long inside him has broken its bounds and set off on a journey to its destined path. Robin came back home and everything looked normal but there was something that was beating inside which was gradually changing the whole world view and perception of Robin and with it the reality that is being perceived.

Robin lived with his father, mother, and a younger sister. There was a change happening in his likes and dislikes. The evening Robin came back home after the incident only his mother and younger sister was at home, his father was yet to come back from work. It was a small house with three bedrooms and drawing and dining areas.

Sister Survi was reading something about the history of Mesopotamia and mother was preparing for dinner and humming a classical song.

Robin went to his room and lay down on the bed with his daily burden of years of failure. He started contemplating his life again but this time everything and every experience have been magnified in his mind with greater details. Robin was able to see everything in immaculate details like a photo was enlarged to its maximum extent. It was feeling like something was working on him and editing his genetic and karmic memory. Robin could identify where he was lacking in his efforts and where there was mismatch in ideal timings and where he was undermined by the destinies of others. The process had both destructive and creative effects on him. He did not know when he drifted to sleep in the process. But even in sleep the process went on. The process which has started was now manifesting visions in his mind, the visions of a large sized eagle flapping its full length wings flying higher and higher and scaling the depth of a large hole in the sky. When the eagle finally reached above the whole in the sky, something great happened inside Robin, like he can feel the entire universe in his mind and open anything and any part of the universe. Robin woke up startled, he looked at the watch, it was 5:15 AM, it was well before of his daily wake up time at 7:00 AM. Robin was feeling restless and finding its hard to consume the process he has undergone. So he decided to go for a walk. He left his house and started walking on the street. It was the same street where he walked daily for the last 24 years, but something was new today. Everything the trees, birds, houses, and every other thing was communicating with him arousing different feelings which he has never experienced, the feeling of creepiness, fear, joy, and feeling which he could not comprehend in words. He walked further, the writing on the billboards, the symbols, the logos, Robin felt like they were scolding him and warning him for an imminent danger. Robin was now able to identify a written language on the patterns of leaves of trees, flight of birds and a lot of other things, even in velocity and intensity of winds and sporadic talks of people crossing by. Robin was sure it was leading to something. He sat down underneath a tree on the bench and closed his eyes, there were flashes of vision in his mind, the flashes about gigantic mountains, extraordinarily large eagles and other birds, the animals and beasts he has never heard or thought about, a village in the middle of the mountain range, and a large two storey house at the centre of the village, a child with a beautiful smile, smiling at Robin.