A Cat , Urs Truly and A Race

Now i won’t call myself superstitious, but at times i m carried away by emotions. Emotions can be a persons biggest enemy but can also act as a guiding lamp in turbulent times , helping u to believe in ur inborn strengths , to recognize what ur abilities are. Now i don’t want to get in to this philosophical melodrama , explaining u the power of emotions. But i have an anecdote to tell, my latest victory , possible only because i had a firm belief that i can run and not just run but run faster than a cat could.

My nanaji , naniji and mamaji were here in lucknow for last three days. Yesterday only they were to leave for Gorakhpur and so i was given the job to get an auto for the railway station. So without wasting a second i immediately headed towards the stop where one can easily get an auto , but then u don’t always get what u want. I waited there for approximately 15-20 minutes but cudn’t find a single auto. Now since it was getting late so i headed towards another stop. Because of the scarcity of time i decided to take a short cut. I was familiar with the route but then the short cut was quite deserted , and one could hardly find a human species enroute , though u can witness myriad forms of other living species there in the form of cows, dogs, pigs , birds also , and last but not the least Cats.

Now i was heading towards my destination when i saw her. There she stood at a distance , on the corner of the road , confused she was , i cud make out from her face. For me she was the finest and the cutest piece of furball that i had ever seen. White in colour with brown stripes , two antenna type ear, a lovely long tail and legs that cud even give Katrina Kaif a run for her money. How can one even think that this lovely creature is a member of Tiger family?? But no doubts she was , and urs truely realized it very soon.

Now slowly and steadily as i approached her, the cat seemed to get more and more attracted towards me, as if i was the north pole of the magnet and she the south one. I wasn’t scared by any stretch of imagination but superstitious, i was. Failing to get an auto on the earlier stop i was desperate to get it this time and had a strong feeling that if the cat crossed the road before i did then surely i won’t get one this time also. I think the cat also had some inkling about my feelings. With distance less than a few meters between us i stopped. Stared at her , our eyes locked in to each other , she even tried to scare me with her cute teeth , the confusion that i read on her face seemed to be long lost , she now had an aim , aim to cross the road before i did . Driven my emotions i ran rather sprinted at a speed which surely would have won me an Olympic gold. I ran straight , she ran across the road but the focal point we both ran and finally i did it. Yessss i defeated a member of the Tiger Family , elated and ecstatic i was with a feeling no less than what Sherpa Tenzing and Edmund Hillary would have felt reaching atop Mount Everest. The cat disappeared as if she was ashamed of her defeat but hats off to that lovely creature. With a sudden surge of confidence in me i reached the stop in no time, hired one auto for the railway station and came back home in time.

The complete incidence hardly had any impact on me( i already had a self belief that i could run) but one thing that will always remain etched in this tiny brain of mine forever will be the beauty of that member of the Tiger Family, tiger family naaaaa i will have to reconsider it!!!