Straight from the Heart

He slowly retracted his footsteps from the place, after making sure that the last person had left fully satisfied and happy. With a smile on his lips right from the time the first guest came in, he had gone about the task of receiving the guests, imploring them to enjoy their meal and finally bidding them goodbye after checking whether they had indeed enjoyed themselves and have had their full. Not that everyone was happy. A few special ones made it a point to find faults and bring them to his notice. Whatever they said, he bore it all, with a smile, and a promise to see if it can be corrected. After all when the heart is heavy with grief, probably there is no room left for the heart to feel more pain. Beyond the point of saturation, its like a feeling of numbness and any further hurt doesn’t cause much reaction. The footsteps were laboured, each one slower than the one before. Fatigue was beginning to overcome him, the toil of the whole day making his body ache and his old bones scr...

It was an intoxication of a different kind! Am not sure whether it can be called anything other than intoxication. Just like any other intoxicating substance this also began to with a slow sort of feel good factor. In the beginning, it was just that….a sort of feel good kind of state where the mind and body begins to relax and get ready for going to the next stage. Then comes the feeling when one realises that one is losing control over the mind and body. The drug begins to dictate terms, the mind loses control and the motor neurons that are responsible for carrying instructions to different parts of the body begin falling asleep one by one. Starved of any specific direction from the central command, the parts of the body start to behave on their own free will-the foot starts to tap, a finger swings in a certain rhythmic motion, the head begins to nod. Finally, like one huge sweeping gesture, the drug takes full control and makes the body enters into a trance like state! This is preci...