Saturday, 1 March 2014

THE EQUILIBRIUM: Prologue

“Please don’t ask me to choose, for it would be like making a choice between breathing and heart beating. Both ways I would lose my life!” Sophie pleaded.

I had a strange dream. I found myself walking on a spindly rope tied against two poles at a notable distance. My feet were trying to grip the thin lock of thread coiled together. As I moved further, the rope shook with enough vibrancy to disturb my offset. It was strange, I had never even practiced once in this skillful movement, but my feet were confident in assuring to get me through.

With even a single shake from the meager base my entire body tilted to one side and then swayed to the other. As the movement turned violent, my fists coiled itself much strongly on a long stick that it held firmly in it. But the stick treacherously didn't help much in supporting me. Instead, it was annoyingly distracting as I realized the weight was heavy for me to hold and the pressure it enforced on my arms was disturbing my stabilization.
My concentration was splitting from the rope to the long stick and I was finding hard to maintain the balance. My eyes accessed the cause of the pressure on the stick that held a good amount of weight on both of its ends. I focused on its length at the right side and found Dave holding it and the left end bore Alec as its counterbalance. They both were tied on the extreme ends of the stick that I gripped tightly and relied completely on my judgement of equilibrium to get us all through the large void we were hanging on while my feet trying hard to balance our weight on a thin rope!!!


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