heaven on earth

the moon was not too high in the sky that night and the breeze wasn't whistling, it was gliding. "the stars were blazing like rebel diamonds, cut out from the Sun" and all around was calm. nothing out of the ordinary, just a normal evening. but hey, i hope that this is what heaven felt like.
just the knowledge that i was living and breathing and soaking all this in was enough to set me spinning. it was somewhere close to 5 a.m. and there were, it seemed, a million people outside, on the streets, under that sky. "aah! this is the life!" that's what pretty much everyone was thinking and feeling. "let us live and die here at mood i", there was nothing beyond that.
it was like a state of induced nirvana that enveloped hundreds, if not thousands of youngsters, unchaperoned youngsters in IIT Powai. it was upto you: to lose yourself in the alchohol and drugs or to lose yourself in the wave of creative energy that bubbled and streamesd around the campus for those blissful five days.
that was it. the choice, the decision was yours.
they say that mood i makes or breaks you. it made me. it defined my sense of will-power and sealed my mind completely against the monsters that promise you paradise but lead you to purgatory. the monsters that, for a few hours of surrender, ask you to relinquish your life to them and give yourselves up as slaves to their cravings.
at the same time, the creativity kept you sane, the energy kept you grounded and the friendship, support and jealousies kept you human.
nothing compares to the exhilaration that you feel when you make the right choice. when you don't take the easy, well-trodden way out of experiencing the lows in life. that is when you know heaven, right here on earth.