The burning sun is setting over the vast sea, a never-ending ocean that seems to stretch out into eternity. Flaming rays of sun turn Varkala's red cliffs into red gold, and even the usually transparent air seems to glow. Slowly all changes and the colours turn into cold shades of blue and silver, just before the sun is well settled and the night sweeps in like a black velvet curtain.
Suddenly a small light starts twinkling far away, and then another one, and then one more, until a whole city is born in the horizon. A proper city, with small and large buildings, towers and churches, and even a couple of well-lit bridges. With a little imagination, it's not hard to see it's people strolling by the shore, talking and whispering, laughing and crying, eating and praying.
One of the small twinkling lights of this city belongs to a writer's house. The young writer herself is seated by her desk, working on her latest novel. She is quite satisfied with it, but she just can't give it the final touch - How do you create that kind of ending that will make it all make sense and will leave the reader with a feeling of completeness? Her mind seems completely blank and her pen stubbornly remains passively still. Suddenly a cry cuts the silence and the young writer smiles and leaves her pen and paper, letting them rest until the next day - her baby has awakened.
Zooming out from the tiny family, leaving the house and the city with it's twinkling lights, I return to reality and remember those hard-working fishermen who are currently out there in the real life fishing all night. Soon they will return back home, home to the sweet caress of both their women in colorful saris and their strong homemade liquor! Making my city disappear once again and the mother and her baby will be reduced to nothing but a memory in my private dream, leaving only a slight fragrance of ink and paper in my mind...
Why have reality when you can live in a dream?
In a place like Varkala it is easy to forget "the real life". Still it will come haunt you sooner and later, and I guess all you can do is to be brave and strong and turn around to face it!
