Light and Dark

I take the metro to reach my office. It is about a kilometer to walk from the metro station to my office. The route takes me through some very large houses built on big plots, at least big for Bangalore standards. Each house plot seems to be at least 10000 square feet in size. The houses are built tastefully, you can ogle at them for more than a few minutes. The best materials seem to have been used, the elevation, the doors, and the landscaping.

Some have a modern exterior, others seem to have used some kind of wooden exterior, and a new one even has creepers dangling from the rooftop.

We are building a house too now, so I observe such things more.

When I depart from the office, it is usually after dark and I take the same route back to the metro.

I hadn’t noticed this for long, but then one day I started too. Most houses don’t have a light ON inside them. These seem to be palaces without occupants. Maybe there are one or two people staying inside these houses, but they are eerily silent. The only sound seems to be coming from a family that is staying in a house under construction, someone seems to be watching a movie on a phone.

It leads me to wonder, were there so many people ever staying in these large houses that they needed to be so big, or it is just the people are so wealthy?

I come back home, to our small home and there is some interaction talk, if you are on the road you can hear people talk inside.

And the house that we are constructing is bigger than the one we are living in. We are four now but in a few years, it will surely come down.

Will someone look at the new house and feel the same way, a medium-sized house, but eerily silent.

I am beginning to feel that it is not light, but the darkness that reveals the true nature of things.