Blankness

I love winter. I love the snow; I love white landscapes, and sparkling mountains. Anything forestry or rocky in winter, I find totally repelling. The whitest of white white is what’s most entrancing. The most luxurious color, the purest, most vibrant, an angelic banquet!

Well white is good, yes, but not when it’s this blank sheet of paper minutes before the exam gets over!! Yes indeed, that white gives shivers up my spine. At that point your mind goes blank as well, and simple things like the meaning of a ball and socket joint, or the how to goddamn test for chloride. Stuff like that doesn’t happen to me often… rather never, but suddenly, just towards the end of my bio board practical x-mas (spelt to add some beauty to xams : P)…arrgh !!!

Truly I found my worthy adversary, Blankness. The only foe which can bring me down. It’s not that you haven’t learnt anything, but this Blankness just shrouds a misty white veil around you, such that you know nothing, not even the sum of two fifties!

Alas, on that fateful day, I was stuck and I bet you couldn’t guess who would come to my rescue! It was none other than Music! Yes Music, in the form of Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten … the words just popped into my head and I started singing to myself, singing away to fanatical exaltation (I think I was a tad bit insane at that point)…

Staring at the blank page before you

Open up the dirty window

Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance

So close you can almost taste it

Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten...

And would you believe me if I say that those words, brought me back?!! I remembered as much as I had learnt and I finished the paper on the mark. Music has its own charms, I guess! And now I’m a Believer!

Lessee if I can make a lil advice here… next time you get stuck on your maths or physics paper or whatever… think of your favorite tune and start singing, in seconds, (hopefully) you’d remember what you were doing! (although I wish you not quote me on this :P )