The Cage of Stars!!!

I remember entering the library of my junior college... Spacious and an ambience, enough to bring a smile on a bibliophile's face. I had developed an interest in reading books, especially suspense and thriller ones during my school time, when our librarian told us to choose our own books for reading. I had heard a lot about Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson then, but when the book titled 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' caught my eye, I knew I would love it even before reading it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a masterpiece and I fell head over heels in love with Sherlock's deduction techniques. I started reading more books and there I found my comfort space. Rolling ahead a few years.. and here I am at the college library getting butterflies in my stomach to see so many books lying on the shelf. I started glancing through the books.. I knew, that from the whole lot, there would be this one book that would call out to me.. to be read.. With a sense of curiosity, I looked at the books.. and after some time, my eyes fixed on a book like it had on Sherlock Adventures back then. It was a small book with a gripping title ''Cage of Stars'' by Jacquelyn Mitchard. First book from the college library and it turned out to be a best read. The novel swirled through the emotions of the human mind and made me realize how powerful a human can be. How the mind can drive someone out of the mess or into the mess!! A brilliant human mind capable of thinking and rationalizing and questioning. Though similar as it's other living counterparts, still so much more!!

A few days back or so, I was watching our dear Mr. Morgan Freeman speaking about our evolution and our continuous evolution which is still happening right now.. how the cosmos might have formed... His narration reminded me of the time when every night I looked at the sky from the window. Every time I looked at the night sky, I pondered upon it's beauty.. the beauty of being pin drop silent even with thousands of nuclear fusions and fission taking place in it. I don't know how many people have noticed it, but if there's utter silence, one might actually hear the humming sound made by the Earth. Feels strange to know but not many can hear this sound or may be they just don't concentrate enough to listen to this hum.😅 Being a kid, most of us would have been mesmerized by celestial objects, with a curiosity of what more is out there in the universe, to be explored by a human. As a kid, I loved gazing at the stars and constellations from my mini toy binocular. Watching Saptarishi, 3 stars in a single line from the Orion Constellation, Dhruv Tara, I grew up and they fantasize me even today. The Orion Constellation is still my favorite one! The science of carrying forward, the genetic information to the sub generation, has been discovered long long time ago. Our sages had known this even before the Westerners. The smallest unit is called atom or Anu in Marathi or sanskrit and it contains a nucleus with protons, electrons, neutrons and even smaller particles called quarks or sub quarks. A subject we all had studied in school but only lately, it made me realise how beautiful and genetically engineered we are! One cell in our body contains innumerable number of atoms as there are stars in the galaxy! We are not just one living being but a carrier of infinite living beings that are continuously being created, processed, destroyed and are communicating with each other. Comparing the genetics of the cell and our solar system.. there's so much similarity in the schema between them... so much that if the sun is considered as the nucleus, the planets are the electrons, the asteroids and other stars are quarks, sub quarks and leptons revolving and rotating around it. As nuclear as an atom and as vast as the solar system can get, who knows just like a minute cell in our body, we might be the preons of a subquark.. of a quark.. of a meson.. of an electron.. of an atom.. amongst million other atoms.. of a single cell of one SUPERBEING!