2nd January, 1984

In this world, people live their lives in two dimensions. They are not aware of any third dimension; neither can their minds perceive it. There are people who exist front-to-back. At the same time, there are also people who exist side-to-side. Both of these people cannot interact, nor are they aware of each other's existence. All the things that these people touch and feel and use are in their own dimension. Their television sets, their beds, their dishwashers, even their houses are in their own dimensions.
   Many of these people have their houses in the same spot, but if the other house is not in the dimensions common to them, they cannot see it. So, a front-to-back person walks right through the closet of a side-to-side person, without even noticing that it was there and that he actually walked through a separate physical object. They can even walk right through each other. Such a world has three different kinds of people, each being non-existent for the other two. So, all of a sudden, the population of the world is cut in a third; or, in other words, there are three separate worlds.
   The only problem is that these people randomly change their dimensions, without even knowing that it happened. However, they do remember their past. So a husband misses his wife because he thinks she is dead, but she is actually in another world of separate dimensions and thinks that her husband is dead. Same is the relation between a mother and her child, a girl and her boy friend, or a sister and her brother.
   Most people, given these circumstances, are very sad and lonely. They miss the people they use to love. They visit the graves of the 'dead', not knowing that these graves are not the complete truth, and that the people they loved are still there, just not for them.
   The only happy people in this world are the people who do not believe in relations. For them, there is no mother, or father, or brother, or sister. They are alone. They were born into their world to live, to go to work, to eat and to sleep; never to socialize. They are content in themselves and their materialistic objects, as long as they are with them. They do not have any friends. They do not let people come close to them, fearing that if they started to like them, and then were to loose them, that they would be unhappy also.

© Copyright 2000 Manan Grover

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