1 The crash

The incident that i am going to reveal today to my readers is not a common one. This is the most singular experience i have ever had and will ever have in life and it had the most singular effect on my life. May be some of my friends would be able to relate themselves with the lesson i got that day. I still remember the most eventful day of my life which was more of a shock than anything else.

Although i am a very sound sleeper but that day may be because of excessive sunlight my eyes were bound to open. The problem actually was that from where the sunlight was coming into the aeroplane. The next moment after this inference i was up in a flash. It was not a plane but i was on some kind of a beach. I purely remember i boarded a flight to new york and had to attend a party over there. I looked around, around and then around. What is this? I was definitely on a beach. There were many questions in my mind. Did the plane crash? Are there any other survivors? How long it has been? There was no one to answer to any of my queries. I started running on the beach aimlessly like you just have to run and run but there is no finish line, and there is no reason to run but you cant even stop. The running had caused me to almost dehydrate and now i had a goal, to drink water. There was a whole lot of water in front of my eyes in the ocean but it would be saline. I had no other choice but to drink that. As soon as i touched the water with my tongue, it became my newly constituted most horrible moment of life. The water was so saline that instead of quenching my thirst, it enraged it to another level.

Maybe this is some sort of island and may be there are people living in here. At least this was what i hoped for. I looked at the opposite side of the ocean. It was like a jungle, a very dense one. I was in the dilemma of my life. Either i should stay outside and die of thirst or i take a chance of getting into the jungle and be killed by an animal. I was feeling like where is my mountain dew bottle drinking which would overcome that fear. But it was not going to happen. I sat their thinking for almost half an hour without any moment just when i saw someone in the jungle. It must be an illusion but why take chances. I ran towards it in a desperate hope of finding someone, some other survivor. When i reached inside the woods, I could not see any human in there. When i realised that i had come well inside the woods, i was terrified to the core of my heart. I wanted to get back but it was not possible even to move a feet. Then suddenly the bushes on the right side began to move a bit. There ought to be some animal behind it and when that animal came out of the bushes it was the last thing i could have thought. It was the dog, the same dog that was on the flight, and the same dog who i had cursed a dozen times even before the take off. It was the dog of some mr. Alex as he introduced himself at the airport reception when i almost screamed to my last after his dog touched me. "His name is tintin, tintin the superhero", he had said to me introducing the dog. I have had an aversion for dogs since childhood. Once one of them bit me on my leg, and ever since i have been cursing the whole species to the limits.

The dog started to move towards me and i also started to move back in a rhythmic fashion. One step would be his and the next would be mine and then his. Maybe the lord of the dogs was present himself to avenge all the cursing i had been showering at him in a long time. I had no other option other than to run and that is what i did. I ran, ran and ran till i was out of breath and fell there ok the grounds.

I remembered the day when i was in india and i followed a stray dog on a car and made him run till his last. Until now that moment was like a victory but now it was looking as if the karma theory was real.

I slowly opened my eyes when water was been poured upon me. I was so thirsty by now that i did not even realise before emptying the vessel that no one else but tintin had brought that water for me. It was some kind of a vessel i had never seen , may be a jungle make. I drank the water and was full with water when suddenly tintin went near a tree, and it would be worth mentioning that it was a damn beautiful tree that he got near to. He started to shake the tree with all his will and surprise!! It was some kind of fruit that fell off the tree. I had to eat them, and they were marvellously delicious i must say. I had my tummy full which i would not even dare think an hour ago on the beach. I had my energy levels now and i did not need any help from this species anymore. I tried to tell him to get away from me. I was thankful to him but it was uncomfortable sharing space with a dog. I tried to make him understand my intention through signals and after a long hard try i succeeded. We both went our own directions and i looked to find the remaining survivors of the crash because if the dog was here then there must be others. I strolled for almost four hours looking for a human but i did not even find a single living being there.

I was going through the jungle when i smelled some sort of a fire. My nose is an expert and this was definitely a fire. Now if i am able to find this fire i will reconcile with my mates. This was the only positive sign since the food i had. I smelled carefully and decided my way. For the next 20 minutes or so i had been walking and no sign of life when suddenly i saw it. There was the fire, i could see it, i have found them, i thought. I went near it and as soon as i went very near to the fire i was in some kind of a trap. I hanged there waiting for something to happen when two to three humans came by. I was very happy but it was not for long. These were not exactly humans, i think they were like those red indians, or they must be the man eaters. I had seen it in a movie that some humans did eat other humans. "What a day i am having", i said to myself. I am going to be a lunch for someone. Well this way or the other, my dream of dying for someone was being fulfilled. I will end their starvation at least. They were about to do some thing when something came from the opposite direction at a lightning pace and struck them. When i saw it clearly it was tintin. This time i was happy to see him. He fought with one of them and defeated him but the others were going to stab him from behind when suddenly a huge roar came from the jungles. It was real loud, the loudest i have heard till now. Reacting to the roar, i screamed the loudest i could. I am not clear of what exactly was the case but those man-eaters were scared because of my scream instead of the roar that came from the jungle. It was weird but they ran shouting some names in english i guess. Then suddenly the roar emerged again and it was even louder than the previous one. I had heard that kind of a roar somewhere but i was not able to recognise it. I along with tintin started to move in some other direction when suddenly it became all dark and from that dark emerged a huge figure of some animal i had seen before.

"This cannot be true, they are still living", i shouted seeing the figure. It was really shocking that there existed an island where there is life for the biggest threat and competition to humanity, the dinosaurs. It was a huge one, i don't recognise its name but it looked i had read somewhere about it.

I ran again, as i have been doing since morning but this time to no avail. It was huge a and it covered a lot of distance in one go. I was helpless. It reached to me and picked me up. There was no hope except one and i hoped for a miracle again. It was Tintin, Tintin the real superhero, again to the rescue. I do not know the exact height but it was not a very huge jump by him but what it did was enough. He just kicked the dinosaur out of life. There was a huge cracking sound and i realised that the jurassic park movie i had put on the television was paused by none other than Tintin and everyone in the flight was looking at me in amazement.

Whatever it was but the real hero of the story was there on my lap and i hugged him tightly saying in his ears,"my real hero." Others might have been amazed by the scene but we both knew our secret adventure and we will savour this for very long. I am not that great reader of dogs but i can assure you that Tintin was also feeling the same thing.

Later on in the flight i was told how Tintin had thrown a water glass on me and also some food off a air hostess's tray which i ate in the sleep itself and how he attacked anyone who tried to disturb my sleep. I knew his last bow of pausing the movie which saved my life. These all moments corresponded to my dream well but what i thought after that was really intriguing. The thought was "had it been a human i found on the island, would he been so faithful and helpful as Tintin was?" I have loved dogs since then and also have five of them but still i frequently visit Tintin because he was something else ' the god of the dogs', perhaps.