MIRRORS
People do strange things when alone. Isn't it? I didn’t mean just kids! As I grew, my ability to sense, observe, gather & infer grew multifold. I met various people – some interesting, some shy, some sober & the rest eliminated from memory. Such varied personas but they seemed so similar in their natural elements. Whenever I would baby sit my cousins’ kid during vacations, I would often wonder at the funny stories they built with toys around & enjoy those secret expressions when left alone. As I grew I realized that even elders enjoyed spaces that let them be just anyone like my aunts’ who kept talking to themselves when alone or my neighbors’ daughter who I spotted on occasions more than twice getting her expressions right before going to tuitions in the cycle shed or my room mate who would practice lines from a love scene as if she were to attend an audition. To this day when I spot our security guard’s early morning expression & humming while cleaning my car – as...