Incessant pour of thoughts, some good some not so great and some unnecessary
Back in 2018, I happened to come across a switch from the doom
which instantly would free me of the infinite loop of thoughts
A 9ft x 5ft table, 2 rackets and a ping pong ball
And I would be off to Nirvana
Let me walk you through my Shangri-la
In a day, my brain like Google chrome has some 40 odd tabs open
Random music playing from one, a tab constantly notifying me of that one perpetual task, the thought of which puts me to sleep
My brain has now ran miles, has crossed borders, has remembered that one hilarious moment from college where my friend is doing bharatnatyam with just her legs in the middle of the lecture, now its remembers a cherished memory of some dog that was mad at me for not meeting him for 5 days, i had to convince him and thats when he started walking with me
Anyway all the shenanigans in the mental circus is quieted when i hold that racket and the ping-pong is served, it feels like entering the world of Narnia, nothing matters and I’m just enjoying the present
I prefer a doubles match
It is a very well co-ordinated choreography
Its almost like a dance off between 2 teams
One serves and the other is ready to attack
When you serve, you don’t think of anything, all you want to do is serve gravitationally close to the table that the opponent just fails to comprehend how to return
You step forward to deliver a shot
You step back to let your partner take a shot
Almost feels like Garba😂
And during all of this you only think of ways that can lead to your opponent being clobbered into oblivion
This moment is my black hole to nirvana
It is the elixir i didn’t know i needed