I just have very limited understanding and knowledge on evolution theories and did not give much attention to dig in deeper. Being a believer, it might be hard and rock solid to break it up and be with two different ideologies, like day and night, like white and black, both has its own identities.

‘Bang’…. Oh… something hit on to my ten square feet sized hanging cubicle. It just started swinging as my grandfathers concrete alarm clock’s silver pendulum. ‘Oh, thank God, it’s a bumper car’. An Indian car maker has recently introduced a cheap bumper car which is awaiting its crash test results. According to western continents rules and regulations, every bumper cars should be crash tested with a bumper truck. Governments approval will only be based on the damage. But this car has not been completed it’s testing process yet. I just looked down from my 100 meters high hanging office through the 5 inch thick fiber glasses. Houses staked like soap boxes at a whole sale super store and construction workers are on the scene making an iron bridge between two 50 storied apartments and an English immigrant construction worker quarrelling with a Mexican lady at her rooftop grocery store. The buildings are all painted in green and carved pictures of trees and plants. The apartments with as many as greenish pictures and purple painted flowered plants have more face value these days. I heard from my grandfather about stories of roads with traffic lights and parks with mighty trees and plants and birds lived in their custom made nests. I have seen pictures of Theropod dinosaurs, aquatic Penguins, humming birds and recently sow a documentary regarding a freshly found crow’s fossil. Crows were a kind of birds usually found in tropical areas, they liked or fed (documentarian is still investigating this) leftover food from home or restaurants. But this bird was not scary as Theropod dinosaurs, I am so petrified of those big birds.

Today is a busy Monday morning, a lot of bumper cars go here and there, all are trying to get into work as soon as possible. This morning, I just waited for 20minutes to get into a wire with my 8 year old bumper car. It’s hard on Mondays, especially to get into a rope way. While riding to work I was thinking of olden human races, culture and travelling facilities. All of the streets were connected with freeways or the so called expressways. But there were a lot of signals to pass, many hurdles to reach your destination. But now, as there are no roads or signals or lines to block me, if the wire is free, I am in.

Recently, I took my kids to feel sand and mud. Tthe park owners have raised the ticket price these days.Still it was a new experience for my little kids. They made sand castle on the artificial beach, made pizza with real mud mixed with some sticky substances. I remember again my grandfather, he was so awesome, with a great collection of local and foreign books as his assets. It tells me stories of plantations, farms and well water. He said to me once, ‘we are not gaining anything, we lose every minute’, growing to die, winning to lose, remembering to forget. It’s been almost 1000 years since Leonard Kleinrock published his first article on packet switching, an idea lead to internet. Now I could browse anything in front of me with my neutrino virtual display system, where the space ahead is your display screen. Inventors call it as ‘anywhere’.

The day was dull and empty, I didn’t had much to do rather than completing few regular assignments. I just conducted the routine valve tests through the elastic nanotubes of west end pseudo motors air muscles. I started working at this shore office at North Pacific just an year ago. This sea water purification plant is one among the biggest of this kind and supply drinking water to the entire north west. On this morning journey , I thought of my ancestors, who lived in villages of south western India, where they plant, sweat, eat and died. Cassava tuberous, Taro corns and Yam Tubers with Green chilly sauce was few of the widely available and tasty combinations for breakfast . Mixing chilly sauce in coconut oil was a favorite side for parties. I am very much interested in cooking, but none of these are available with the ‘roofco’ retailers. These days farms are build on a thin silica frames on ocean surface, where mostly water friendly veggies grow.

I just came off my hanging cubicle and get into the bumper car docked in near the office entrance. On my return journey, I was thinking of my Lithuanian friend, Audrone. We just had a virtual session this morning, got divorced an year ago and with his fourth girlfriend now. Looks like emotions keep the same weight and balance, till the very end. Virtual advertisements on both the sides let my bumper car go through celebrities. I feel like, I am dissolving into it. I just detached my air cylinder and turn on car gas pipe slowly and took a deep breath. I am just sitting and relaxing on my bumper car as it drove me through the rope intelligently with no red signals or cross roads, with no obstacles or impediments up and down. When the car passes through the metal wire, a tight metal creeking sound gave me an acid chill to my teeth and it tickled me when going down. When looked at a distance, I feel like I am one among the dragon flies among those flying automobiles, feel like an Anisoptera and others as Zygopteras.

It was time to exit from the wire, but I didn’t get a chance to dock my bumper car at the right place, I was dreaming of my ancestors breathing freely, I thought, I will take the second cut at the next wire and go home on the other side. I was dreaming of my ancestors making the farm ready for next year’s yuka nurturing. I could see a big fire on one corner and piles of ash from yesterdays bushfire. They are making the land more fertile, for their kids, for the coming generations. I realized missing my second exit when I saw my office, back again. I just pass through the virtual advertisements for a second time and slide into my rope home, thinking of my ancestors yet again.

PS: Thanks to India’s Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar on his recent comment “future generations will be paying for fresh air”.

Glossery;

Theropod dinosaurs – Bird like dinosaurs, Taro corns – A root vegitable, Neutrino – Elementary particles with no electric charge, hard to detect, Pseudo motors – Comes in Robotics, Air muscles – A robot’s moving parts, Cassava tuberous – Yuka root, Taro corns – A root vegitable, Yam Tubers – A root vegitable, Anisoptera – Dragonfly, Zygopteras – Damselfly

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Sajan Ayathamattom