Somewhere Over the Rainbow

People have left me all alone at home after a long time. I don't even remember when it was the last time...was it ten years ago? Only two hours of sleep yesterday night and I've got to sleep...

I must travel to Mangalore by the day-train. Yesterday night thanks to lack of other options I looked outside the train window and suddenly realized we were in the ghats and after that the sleep left for a good one hour. I had seen the railway track up in the hills while traveling by the road and wondered if we really journeyed that way but it's much more awe-inspiring being up there! You see trees and endless darkness all below you and it feels as if you are somewhere in the sky, in some imaginary world. We kept going in and out of so many tunnels and somehow I wanted company, someone to sit next to me and marvel at the strange world outside us. Some trees were lit up with fireflies and when I looked further down, it was as if some fire had broken out at points! Then I realized it was the buses, laboriously winding up the road. It's an amazing feeling, really! I wanted to shout out to someone down there that I was far, far up in the sky....