Sunday, May 30, 2010

My nail, my ugly duckling

For some time have been look for more and more time to write a blog. For me writing is therapeutic. Finally confronted myself, no need to prove inelegance all the time just be.....cause that is rare. and So...

About a month back now i got hit by a car door and my left thumb badly got ruptured with the nail being affected mostly. The thumb was swollen thrice its size and tingly for number of days. Till my partner lovingly in the dead of the night took me the the hospital. Another friend commissioned a plastic surgeon who was like a power operated microscope for reading a book, to the wound. Forced to drug myself with antibiotic the wound dried too soon in a healthy body. And i escaped completing the course of antibiotic as always.

Hoping that the nail does not fall off and i do not have to look at the ugly flesh under the nail and stuff like that, i keep nurturing the existing nail, strengthening it with coat of nail paint, saving it form impact and all.

Guess nature has written laws long back for me to change or challenge. Some time when i was at one of the workshop a small little nail started emerging form beneath the existing nail. Too eager to see it progress of growth i scraped the top nail and have been doing so till date. What i see is nothing good. Its a little deformed and irregularly shaped nail with a bend in between and things. Stopped exploring it further as what i saw did not excite me.

Till today morning i though of it as an ugly duckling, the tender nail which soon will grow into its best to shine upon my lovely long finger, my little ugly duckling.

2 comments:

Yogesh Mahajan said...

where is this beautiful & ugly coming from?how can something created by nature ugly?It is just different.

Unknown said...

true, most new creations have to destroy what exists and acceptance of change over i labeled and not looked at the experience