A new year begins. What better way to start it than writing your mind out. :)
I had a dream lately, a dream where I was walking besides a park near my house. I was not alone. I was walking with some other people, people I think I knew in the dream but I have no idea who they were.
I was walking with a girl and I remembered her face even after I woke up, not because there was anything striking about it but because of the fact that I had never seen her face before in real life. Now, before your thoughts drifts in some other direction (and I know they already have), let me bring you back to the jist of the thought I wanted to share with you. There are no 'romantic' connotations involved here.
After the dream, it just struck me. Did I just make up a person's face in my dream, a person I know I haven't seen before in real life?
Isn't it a person's face that gives him or her their own unique identity (well, in most cases....no twins in my dreams as of yet :P)? So, theoretically, I just created a new person, a new identity with a face and existence. Out of the 6 billion odd people on this planet, the creation of my dream could stand on its own as a separate being.
It made me wonder the power God possesses, of creating human beings with different shapes and sizes, each being having some difference or the other in their appearance, looks, voice, skin tones, hair color. God has created so many faces till now and still has not run out of any options!! Does he have a book of faces he refers to before creating a new one? :P
But this also made me wonder about the power of the human mind, its imagination and the power to play God. And also, the simplicity of it. People who write novels, who create animated movies, who create video games (sorry, but I am a gamer, so couldn't resist including this :P), are creating new faces on a regular basis.
This thought made my epiphany a little less significant but it still gave me solace that I too am in the list of those 'great' people who have added another page to the real Face Book of this world. :)
