Last night, I apparently made the blunder of discussing an old award concerning students’ achievements in the high school, little did I know that this discussion would zoom into an overdrive concerning my uncle’s school life, he admonished me with long advices about teenagers’ activities when they reached high school and that I should not indulge in inappropriate activities. Soon the discussions roller coaster ride settled at a new pace, when my uncle started discussing my future career plans and then managed to pop out his own achievements at frequent intervals to keep the conversation fresh concerning his own career in architectural engineering. I started feeling shaky and wanted to sleep, but it totally seemed impossible to escape the living room. After sometime it became obvious that my uncle had penetrated my mind and bought an abrupt end to the conversation. Feeling dazed about what had happened, I went towards my bed mourning my uncle’s achievements and wondering the destinies of conversations in general. From where the discussion had started and where it ended. Remembering the still longer trails of gossips between my mom and her friends gossiping, and jumping from one topic to another constantly, I fell on my bed. Next morning I woke up with a start as if I had a terrible nightmare, feeling a strange excitement I freshened up and started watching T.V. after having my breakfast. Luckily Paris Hilton and Nicole Richei’s show The Simple Life – Interns was being aired on Star World. After being glued to the television screen for an hour I left for my friend’s house. Endeavoring the heat and cursing the hot weather I walked till the bus stop and quickly jostled into a bus. After half n hour’s travel I reached my friends place. The stupid discussion about organizing our farewell party lasted for hardly thirty minutes without any final decision and I left my home. The unanswerable feeling continued and I just didn’t know why I felt so much excited. Hardly realizing that I had some endless work to do, I walked a little as if I was the happiest man in the world. Soon my false incantations came to halt when I reached my house. I started playing on the computer and then after a quick dinner with the family I fell on my bed like a stonecutter does after a hard days work. I never had such a tingling sensation under the very layers of my skin until yesterday’s morning. I considered it the after effects of that previous nights discussion with my uncle just to satisfy myself, but I knew it inside my heart that the conversation had no link with how I felt right now. Although there was nothing special, but I felt very excited, I am still thinking why I felt so cheerful yesterday, it was quite an ordinary day though. You never know, you will wake up every morning and feel different – excited, special or nervous. Different emotions will always spawn you when you view your life from a different perspective, and perhaps maybe that is why I felt so excited that day, because I wake up every morning believing that the new day will bring with itself new challenges. M.R.Hussain