Thought Overflow

After a long, long time, I woke up early a couple of days back to study for that afternoon’s Production Management mid-term exam. It was a glorious grey sky morning, cool and peaceful. It might be a huge coincidence, but every time I have a test or exam for which I’m not 100% prepared, the sky is generally overcast. However, contrary to popular (and clichéd) literature, a grey sky is far from gloomy for me. I love it. I revel in it.

So anyway, back to the morning. I switched on the laptop to read from the slides that are given in the CD accompanying the text book. My earphones were on the table, and instinctively, I connected them and hit the play button on my media player. It’s generally on random, and within a couple of songs, it played a classic number by Santana. Instantly, I took it off shuffle, and started playing Santana’s 1973 album III. I had drawn the curtain of my window earlier, and it feels awesome to have the morning light come in and light up my work-space.

More than anything, the grey sky reminded me of those cherished moments spent in the hour-long bus ride to college (engineering) every morning, drowned by the sound of music, pondering over what I’m going to do on that day’s test. Nostalgia, again.