21 is a cool number.
No seriously…
I have been really thinking loud about this number.
This number is playing such a huge role in my life right now.
Well, I left school in the summer of ’89 and after almost 21 years we are having a school re-union of sorts.
To me, It will be the same meeting of minds sans a uniform, a school bag and all the added tags associated with it.
It sounds so exciting to meet our old pals, bond and go back in time the moment when we were all separated by our own choice and destiny.
So what could the number 21 signify?
So many things conjouring up.
Some odd and random facts for the number 21:
They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death. According to Duncan Macdougal. He tried to prove that the soul was a physical part of the body, with actual mass, by weighing dying patients.
The weight of a humming bird
The weight of a chocolate bar
The weight of a stack of nickels (As it reads on my fave movie poster, 21 grams)
How about some more…
They say one in 21 people (Approx) have an extra rib
Blackjack, the world-famous card game is also known as 21
Twenty-one is the number of spots on a standard dice
Once you reach the age of twenty-one, you know you’ve hit a pretty important milestone. In the U.S., being twenty-one means you can drink and gamble
In most places in the U.S., you can rent a car once you’re twenty-one
21 is the standard TCP/IP number for an FTP connection
Gustave Whitehead allegedly flew a plane called Number 21 two years before the Wright brothers’ first flight.
A twenty-one gun salute is fired in the UK for royalty and in the US for the President. It comes from the time when the largest ships of the British navy had 21 guns along one side
We live in the twenty-first century (Can it get any bigger than this?)
I mean imagine this, the street you have been using up and down from your kindergarten life until the time you graduate…
A wind blows and takes you to another shore in search of better life and prospects.
Twenty one years pass…
So many things happen afterwards…
Do you realize that you just passed through 21 summers?
And all the other seasons and some of life’s most amazing events.
Your graduation, new job, your first salary, Your first suit. Your engagement. Then your marriage. Your kids and their milestones…
So many things happend around you…
APJ Abdul Kalam as a President, India’s first woman president, The super successful twenty 20, Amartya Sen’s Nobel prize, Tata Nano… and various other milestones!
And some bad news rolled in too!
Like the 1992 and 2002 riots in India, Tsunami, Gujarat Earthquake, The World trade center attacks, Swine flu, Terrorist attacks in Bombay… just to name a few
My God… Don’t you think this 21 must be one hell of a number?
I will go back to the same point all over again. I’ll reminiscize. I’ll ponder. I’ll live that moment all over again.
I mean of course that time is not the same now. Its a different world now.
I wish I could turn back the times for once. But for the other, I am happy I am about to re-live that moment.
In the current situation, I think I would rather live the life I am into right now and be happy for what life was about 21 years back.
And I am just too happy and proud that whatever I am today is a product of what I was 21 years ago!
And with this I’d like to dedicate this post to all my school mates who matter to me so much even today just like they did 21 years ago!
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