Somewhere over Florida

27-May-2006
9:05 am EST
Somewhere over Florida, USA

I don’t think I can write any more. At least not using the conventional pen-paper mode. I am sure that I’ll fumble, freeze or worse, forget what I intended to write originally. I also get a bit confused about while using the running script, how many ‘n’ appear in ‘m’ or ‘n’ – quite messed up. And now, aboard a flight to San Juan, I finally write again in my yet-new Moleskine, forsaking the fabulous microtip pen and using the cheap Papermate kind – voila, the handwriting is turning bad as I reach the bottom of the page but the writing continues to flow. And at the same rate as that of my pen and thoughts. Wonders never cease – maybe I’ll be able to use my Moleskine after all though my handwriting has taken a definite turn for the worse. There is a great deal of tentativeness in it. It tries to bend forward but most of the time it is upright. In between these backward and forward bends (sounds like yogaasanas!), I feel that it loses its character. Well, maybe this is its character. To be persistent, to just be no matter inclined in what direction – to plain be. As I rest my head on the window shade, it feels warm, no hot as it gets warmed by the sun shining brightly outside. Two pages and I am still writing, a definite sign that I am truly relaxed for that’s the only state when I am able to write effortlessly. I was a bit wound up when the flight began but not any more. Let this holiday unwind the way only it knows the best… Adios!