Statue!

12:36 am. The time.

Are you the one that tick tocks in the silver colored frame in my cabinet, or are you the one that passes as moments pass by?

What is that which people find so limitless and boundless about you?

Today I decide to put you to a stop, I decide to confine you, I decide to clutch you in my fist..

I say- Statue!

Vacuum and your name are antonyms, probably the perfect antonyms, but this moment, the still 12:36 am, will witness the two ends meet.

You have all my beautiful memories stored within, you have the smiles of my most precious people, and you have my dreams, my life of 21 years. You owe so much to me, and if at this moment I try to capture you, you must oblige. Try and stand still for a while. Wait for me till I go back into memoirs and live you again. Let me touch a few droplets out of the ocean of moments that you have given me.

Remember the first time when I made a friend? I was happy. I never knew that the relationship would be with me forever but thanks to you. I admire you for the way you make a stranger so special in an individual’s life. You like giving surprises to people don’t you?

Worry not, I love unpredictability.

I have always thought of you as a friend. Except for once when I won the first ever prize of my life. It was a second prize for a race event. Second because my “time” was a little more than the winner. I thought you were unfair to me then but you weren’t. You made me realize that I did not win second, I lost first. I have won lots of firsts since then. 

All because of you.

There are lots and lots of pages of my life I can flip through right now. You have given me the best moments of my life, but its you who have given me the worst too. Sometimes I really wonder where did you get the capability to get so consequential from. You are simply a bonded laborer of sun and other celestial bodies after all. How can you manage to drive the whole of the life of a human being?

But then, that’s you!

It is not the first time that I have decided to crystallize you. I have done this many times before. My albums are a witness to my attempts. Whenever I go through the colorful pictures of my album, I see the timeless you smiling at me. They say people are not perfect unless they smile, I say time is not perfect unless it smiles, and this is one of the smiles of yours that I have captured.

I love to exist in this still moment. I have lived it to the fullest.

I let you move on now. You can keep the pace unless I decide to capture you again, unless I decide to say- Statue, Time!

Devanshi
May 12, 2005