Has struck me big time. I sit at the computer, stare at the white space and can think of nothing to write about. I am telling you- the busier you are, the more you want to have free time to write and when you find that time, you can't think of anything to write about.
Of course, in my case it could have been the Curse of the Lizard Family.
My house has recently become home to all sorts of animals in the neighbourhood. There are a couple of cats that go in and out, parrots, koyals and the like, squirrels, the First Family of Lizards and, believe it or not, a family of mongooses/ mongeese. Sadly enough, the animals I so desperately want to have (dogs and elephants and horses) do not come visiting. In fact, there is a dog that pointedly ignores our house and wags itself into the next door office where it is popular recreation to chase it out. Highly disappointing if you ask me.
Coming back to the mongooses, I first saw them when I was sitting on the swing in the garden. I was sitting on the swing, listening to GnR, swinging gently in the night breeze and this family trots by - father, mother and baby. I am not kidding. They actually just trotted by.
My first reaction was to screech at the top of my lungs, then to try to stand on the swing while it was still moving and finally fall over onto the flower pots on one side. By the time I was right side up, half the neighbours and my whole family was out. The mongooses, of course, were long gone. Everyone assured me I was hallucinating, since no one had ever seen a mongoose in the garden before and since I had never seen a mongoose anywhere ever before in my life. That however, did not stop the grand 'Cobra Hunt' by our maid, neighbours' watchman, his wife and their friends. They assured us that mongooses would never turn up unless there were snakes around. In the process of the hunt, all they did was to destroy my mother's hibiscus, tulsi and the one-flower-a-year plants, and the watchman's eight year old son whacked his sister with a shovel since he saw 'something' move 'somewhere' around her head. The group was disappointed with the results, I think, but nevertheless made up for it by telling everyone how I was almost attacked and killed by snakes/ mongooses/ my own stupidity on the swing.
The mongooses continue to live in our house now. My father's hobby these days is mongoose family sighting. He wants my brother and me to learn how to follow our elders by watching the Herpestidae family. I have named them Rikki Tikki and Tavi, but can't seem to sight them ever. I think the swing incident has scared them off from me forever.
But getting back to the purpose of this post: the Curse of the First Family of Lizards.
I was sitting in the living room one night, quietly banging on my laptop, when suddenly this damned baby lizard falls on it from above with a gentle plop. It yelped, I screamed and then it scampered away. I looked up from where it fell to find its mother glaring at me. I am not kidding when I say glare. All I could see was a head and these two beady eyes looking over the ceiling ledge against the backdrop of white light. It even looked accusing, like it was my fault its stupid baby couldn't cling to the ceiling. And since then, I haven't been able to write.
So now I suffer from Writer's Block and I don't think I am capable of writing any sense any time soon.
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10 people's 2 cents:
hahaaa...As I told you ..Ill get you my gun..u can shoot at them and scare them away.You ll be happy that they re gone and it makes for good target practice too..You anyway love shooting right?You re not alone in the Anti reptile Association.You can join my sis and the rest of the club's patrons and fight for complete annihilation of reptiles.
But you may also want to consider that the baby lizard actually likes you.eh?It ll be nice to see u hanging around with a slimy reptile for a pet..:)
Peace.
agreed sm1 is cute from the perspective of a homo sapien but how would a baby lizi know that??....poor creature reacted just as sm1 reacts at the sight of a mongoose...didnt really deserve to be labelled 'stupid'...guess sm1 could be more sensitve!
and yes, a higher sensitivity is also known to counter writer's block...big time!!
@kv: ok, ppl are going to be scared when you say i will shoot at them. please specify the target is not the reptile but the ground behind them so they can be scared away.
@anon: my, my. such defence for a lizard. i stand by my point as that same baby has not learnt to stick to the ceiling yet. just yesterday it fell on my mom's vegetable cutting!! and anyway, i dont think i can be sensitive towards them because i just don't like them!
sm1 made it sound as if she would have welcomed a 'trained' baby lizi, though its not hard to decipher that there is a cruel heart behind the veneer of that lovely appearance....how else could one even think of shooting at some hapless species(which just got left behnd in the race of evolution)for something as innocuous as moving around in the vicinity!!....forget sensitivity(thats not meant for cruel hearts),just think about the benefits of biodiversity before embarking upon your planned shooting spree.people should realize the value of 'peaceful coexistence',the need to generously share the limited space on planet earth with other species.one just cant afford to be indifferent to their needs!!
sm1 would also do well to join (alongwith a certain friend's sis)some program to overcome herpetophobia!!this may not actually make her fall in love with some of the loveliest creations of nature but might just succeed in neutralizing her dislike for them.amen!!
@reptile lover:
a) Do not take a dig at other people's relatives - you are only allowed to target me.
b) Chill out, "bio diversity" is being well preserved in my house - there are enough and more lizards around, breeding and happy.
c) Like I have already pointed out, it was not about shooting the lizards down, it was about scaring them away. And, it was a joke, so again chill out.
d) Thank you for the compliment on my appearance :)
e) Cruel heart? That came from this post?? Egads!
Noooo ... :) I had a lizard blog written to be pubblished soon .. Now I ll have to wait until yours fades away . :) anyways I like this post .. and I like such random thoughts... suits my way of thinking :D LOL
mohit, i know, i dont think this blog can get any more random. but i love writing this stuff as much as the serious posts, so i think its a good thing!
Haha, so you too got it - the block, i meant, and not the lizard drop! And I'm charmed by the watchman's son's sheer opportunistic ingenuity! WOW! :-D
he he he he.These mongooses and lizards must pay rents :D.
I love your random thoughts. Funny post.
@ dish: yeah thats one smart child. dont tell me you are stuck with writer's block too??
@subs: thank you, m getting more jobless by the day!
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