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 i need to stop thinking. Thinking means entering the past  and  pushing one into the abyss of  recall and recoil. 

They had reached the  place  where her son  was  residing.  It  was quite a long route from  the airport to  this  place. It was doted on both sides with vast stretches of empty fields  and sparsely lined trees on both sides  of the road. The open and the vast areas  veered a little towards barrenness. It was a long haul from the airport to her son's residence. They got down and after paying the  cab driver, who all along  played  Hindi  songs, and giving them furtive looks for their  appreciation, perhaps  he could fathom that they were Indians, having  driven a lot of them ,since vast number of Indians  immigrated to  America  constantly. But it was quite surprising to  her,  being new to this country, and at the same time she was touched by his  grace and  humility.  She felt obliged to acknowledge it by making a small talk  with him in english .He was an American Black   and  said that he loved Hindi songs though he had  little   knowledge about  the  genre  or such  other  details but he said  that he loved Sharukh Khan. She laughed loud and he joined her at this sheer revelation. His broad and guileless smile made her feel happy and light at  heart.

 Gita looked around the place. It was green all around . The trees glistened in the bright Sun and the blueness of the sky struck her as unreal, so much clear deep blue, though there was no breeze blowing, the well maintained and  manicured lawns stretched seamlessly into the adjusting neighbourhoods since there were no boundaries raised  by them yet they knew the limits  of their areas and thereby their obligations. The vast number of trees jostled with one another  forming  canopies while  the straight ones grew tall all around, the surfeit of Nature but none to violate or witness it. Two worlds juxtaposed  yet  unconsummated. The virtual  indoor world  where the denizen  is sequestered  in his sterile interactions with the world at large , and the outside world, the unbounded Nature, craving for some acknowledgement from this robotic bot.

And Gita contemplates that perhaps  from this amalgamation have turned up the maximum number of creative brains  in the entire world , the Nobel Laureates enriching the world at large.

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