Sliding Dow….UP!!

The most important invention in your lifetime is…

The view in the front was blocked, but it wouldn’t be for long; but the view on my right, my left and my back was clear.

I was going up with careful movement of my hands and legs.

I wasn’t going to look down. I had not exactly promised myself that, but had rather ordered it. Why, you ask? It’s height of course. It’s a scary thing, it can make the boldest of us experience a shake in confidence.

There’s always a place from where one can fall, physically or mostly mentally. Like right now, I was going up but I couldn’t help but imagine how it would feel if I fell down. So you see I had already fallen mentally, and quite a few times by now.

The view in front finally cleared as I was done climbing the top of the ladder. Everything on the ground seemed far beyond safe distance.

I gave a glance at the smaller slide which I enjoyed playing on, however my parents thought I had reached the age when I should try out the taller one.

This wasn’t my first attempt. I had tried before. This is how the attempts usually went- I would climb up the ladder, experience the fear of my mortal enemy ‘height’, then I would freak out and climb down the ladder.

But this day was different, on this day I was either sliding down or falling down, but I wouldn’t climb down the ladder to get down no matter what.

So, that’s what I did, I fell down. Light bruises, now that I think, my fear was much higher than the actual height at the top of the slide.

This is when I did something different, instead of going back home I went back up the slide ladder again and this time I slid down. The fall had actually made my shaking confidence firm. I had done it.

I am not an inventor of anything tangible. My creation lies in my words. But, yes if there is something tangible, it would be ‘myself’, my greatest invention.

Written by Anuran Chatterji

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