COCCI SIGNALS

Ludicrous or commonplace? Let me know if you've seen them too!

When I was young, I had this wonderful habit of watching clouds. The cumulus, stratus, cirrus... They could exactly represent what's on your mind, including its state. I felt that nature was trying to communicate something to me as I indulged in this pursuit.

And one day, when I was about four, I saw some circular objects floating in the air. They were small, about half a centimeter in diameter and transparent. One could barely make out their existence through their edges and presence of two-concentric circles. What a sight! It was absolutely mesmerizing! How did they come to be all of a sudden? I was curious and some more when I realised that they were following my line of vision! They glided, danced, swayed, and left me pondering over their existence!

To me, that was the sky sending out signals!

A few years later, in Biology class, I learnt about round-shaped bacteria or cocci. They looked so uncannily similar to my signals! Yikes! Could I see microbes, then? Was I blessed with some sort of a microscopic vision?

My questions were answered when I realised I could not even figure out who was sitting beside me in class! With metallic rims sitting on my nose, I dismissed the idea of being a walking-talking electron microscope.

I didn't spare Newton either. These have to be corpuscles, then! I was euphoric! Until I heard of the Wave Theory!

The cocci signals appear even today. Only difference being, I am now old enough to imagine these blobs and acknowledge the imagination (if I did imagine, that is, but which is not the case) and yet, human enough, to remain curious to decipher their presence.

Ludicrous or commonplace? Let me know if you've seen them too!