The Matchstick

  The Theory of Nothingness ( Originally written for India Film Project IFP s-11's 7 Days Writing Challenge ) It was a cold winter evening. A woman, in her late thirties, walks down a street in New Delhi. She took a mobile device from her bag and opened an e-hailing app on it searching for a ride. After fiddling with the mobile screen for a few moments she dialed a number, the cab driver picked the call on the other end and told her that he would be reaching within 10 minutes.  After a few minutes the cab arrived. She opened the door and entered the cab. The driver, a young man, who must be in his mid forties, greeted her while lowering the volume of his cab radio and requested her to enter her destination in the app. She did as she was told and then she asked him about the estimated time to reach the destination.  The driver glanced at his mobile screen and after a moment of calculation he gently replied, “25 to 30 minutes utmost, ma’am.”  “Okay!” She uttered. ...

Stories are eternal. The stories in themself are immortal and are like souls. They exist forever as ideas or thoughts. The plot and characters are mortal, like physical bodies they die after a certain period of time. To interpret a story is like interpreting life and existence itself. There should be deeper meaning, grand purpose and profound insight that is needed to be underlined or highlighted. A simple, bland and random life is not worth remembering, and so is such a story. But actually, no life is simple, bland and random. It is just interpreted that way because people lack the concepts to understand their complexity, flavour and reason. Once you start assigning meaning, purpose and insights into a story, you will get closer to the ultimate answer to life and existence. It's up to you how you understand and comprehend any story. We are surrounded by the stories all around us. We all are merely stories in the end, too. The stories that we ourselves wrote, within this spacetime ...