Fantasy Revisited

          Fantasizing a fantasy, I think, was a better part of my childhood. I was good at it. Or least, that was the only one thing I could do when I was being left behind. I didn’t have a lot of friends as a kid. My elder brother and sisters were more of a friend to me than anyone else was. That was how we were being raised. Not that I am complaining about this friendship, actually I am proud of it, but when your only friends are trying to catch up with their teenage and you are too small to understand anything about it at all, gaps eventually nudge out. Now you know what this “left behind” I was talking about before. So during those days I had two options. One, pick up a book and read which I will not understand a thing unless every page has a picture in it. Or two, play my mind the way I want it. I pick the later.

 

Mermaid by @my_popart via twitter

          I remember those days when, just before going to sleep, I just have to close my eyes and travel to all this places no one has ever seen or heard, until I actually finally fall asleep. Or even better, climb the roof of our family washroom (because that was only place I could climb at that time) and feel the setting sun while I am lost somewhere in some of my own private galaxy. Goosebumps!!! I use to have a bunch of these (magical world) between which I switch from time to time, but not in order. Whatever comes first, was the trick. Then Disney decides to play “The Little Mermaid” series on the TV. Then, it was heaven. Now I will not even start with that 1984 movie “Splash”, because that will take us to some “not openly talk about” phase of this fantasizing fantasy. Or maybe someday I will, but not now. For now, let’s just stay clean. Ahahaha…

          “I have heard the call of it. I didn’t know what it was but I know it was calling me and I have to find it whatever it takes. So, I set out on my journey. I have traveled for days and I have travelled far. This is a place where no one has ever been before or from where no one has ever returned. It looks like an island but was much more small and scattered. The clouds are forming and thunderstorms are gathering, thick and dark. It’s getting dark and I know I was lost. I was scared. Then I realized I was not alone. I saw a figure of a woman lying on a rock just above the sea level. It was hardly moving. At that moment I didn’t realized she was injured and couldn’t move and needed my help. I was terrified instead, but I didn’t have an option. So, I call out for an answer but I go no reply except for a very small movement that I almost missed it. I had to row my canoe closer and face whatever it was.

         She was scared, I saw from her eyes. She wanted me away. I should have left her alone there but I couldn’t afford to do it. She was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen and she would have died if I left her alone. I feed her, she wouldn’t eat. I gave her water, she wouldn’t drink. I didn’t know what to do but I knew that was what I had to do. She was dying and I was crying. But one day, she decided to eat and start drinking from my hands. Very soon, she was well and we were swimming. She tells me of her story and about her people. She gives me breath underneath the water. She takes me to places that I had never seen before. She teaches me things that I would have never learn. We were deeply in love and we were happy. Soon I might turn into something like her (I thought) and we could live forever. But I was wrong. One day she tells me she had to go. I was sad and I cried. She comforted me but in vain. Then she tells me she will visit me as she could take a human form. That was our only option as I couldn’t take a form like her. Then she left”. She was a mermaid. For more details, please consult my childhood…ahahaha….

          Now if you change that plot into a ship shipwrecked and I was the one injured and the mermaid taking care of me. I have been there too. Think of it as a sequel from my imagination. Sounds like a Hollywood movie now, don’t you think so? (lol) except mine has less cinematography and visual effects. But trust me, it’s way more fun.

          Damn imagination!!! I was bad at it (lol)...

          Jokes apart, yes Mermaids were one of my favorite fantasies. Somehow I grew up with them but now it’s almost lost. Maybe partly because the world has proved that mermaid never existed. I started believing in that, until recently.

          Well, I will not talk much about these videos, a two documentary covered out by Animal Planet, (some of you might have seen it before) on mermaids because as much as it sounded real or fake to me, to some it will sounds as much as fake or real. So it’s a personal take. I found out that it’s more interesting to actually watch this video, if watch the second part first. Unfortunately, the only file I found of the second part of this documentary is not available for US viewers and so blogspot will accept it here. Anyway, the links of the Part I and Part II is given below and you can watch part by part if it allows you to. But here I am embedding the combined full episode. Enjoy watching :)

Video Part I

Video Part II

Last Word: Imagine a magical world and I will be there with you.