My first creation - Olympic torch!!!

God just walked amongst the crowd and mixed up. She could not be seen anywhere now. Her work was done and my work was yet to start. The crowd was talking amongst themselves; some were with Angel or now Jerry; some were looking at me with anxious faces. For me the most worrying thing was the second point told by God, “That he/she won’t be there.” It was really difficult to imagine life without God. I closed my eyes, “Oh God. Why?”

When I opened my eyes it was night. NIGHT??? Had I become blind or was it really dark? I realized in one hand I had the I2C, and the other was holding someone else hand.

“Is it you Angel?” I asked

“No, its Jerry.” She replied

“Oh yeah, I meant the same thing.” “Where are we?” I asked

 “I guess we are at the new place, SALT.” Jerry said

“Oh my GOD!” I exclaimed

“Your God? There is no God here Tom. Only you and me.”

“Yeah, but why is it so dark here. I cant see anything. Keep holding my hand Jerry, don’t leave it.” I said

Why so suddenly had God sent us here? We didn’t even get any time to think, to meet others, to plan something, to thank God, to ask God or to get ready. Maybe it was for good! When you know you are going far far away and more the time you spend with your near and dear ones, the more difficult and painful it is to part away. It seems it was good for Angel, oh sorry, for Jerry. And as for me, if I had been given more time I would have surely asked hundreds of more questions from OA. OA knows me well, he must have told God that I always have a question mark on my face. But why would he tell? Doesn’t God already know everything?

In between these random and unrelated thoughts, I heard someone weep.

“Can you hear that Jerry? Someone is weeping.” I said and became cautious.

“Be careful Jerry, hold my hand tight.” As I said this, the weeping became more louder.

“Oh! Is it you Jerry? Oh God, where is your face. It’s so dark here!” I said as my hand tried to reach her face.

“Stop it Tom, you just poked in my eye.”

“Oops, OK let me use my I2C now for the first time.”

I looked at it and imagined the Olympic torch of 2012 Olympics. First the glass sheet got illuminated at the border with blue color and then the torch appeared on the glass sheet with David Beckham holding it. What is he doing here? Oh, I saw him on TV and that’s what I imagined. Then again I imagined only the torch and it was there. But I dint like the burning flame, so I imagined the torch with a yellow halogen light bulb. It was shining there on the glass sheet with the halogen bulb throwing bright light. At the lower right side of the glass were the two tabs, create and destroy. I hesitatingly put my finger on the ‘create’ tab.

The glass sheet again became blank and the torch was there lying in my feet. WOW!!!!!!

I picked it up, it was golden in color. The light was going up in the sky. I felt elated on carrying the torch. Even Jerry had stopped crying and was looking in amazement.

“Can I hold it?” She asked

“Sure, take it.” I said as I handed it over to her.

“Oh My God!!!” She exclaimed.

“Hey, there is no God here, only his blessing in the form of I2C which we must protect even more than our life, at any cost. We will survive only and only because of this.”

Then we both hugged each other. Jerry was holding the torch and I was holding the I2C.

“Hey why were you crying?” I asked as I remembered the reason why I created this torch.

“Oh, was just thinking about everyone on NASA. Leave it now; we have a future which we must create. Nothing is pre-written, there is no destiny. We decide how it goes on from here. We will write the story, the history, the future, the destiny of this place, SALT.”

“Yes, we will. Its like having the power of God. We can create anything and we can destroy anything, A N Y T H I N G. This torch has led many athletes to glory on Earth, now it will lead to us to glory.

Tom and Jerry will be the creators, preservers and destroyers of SALT”.

Jerry interrupted me, “Calm down my love. Let’s plan how to start it. Its not about starting a company, its about starting life.”

And so the planning starts. Had you been in this situation, what would you do first of all? How would you plan? Or would you first create something to eat, something to sit on, something to drink, some nice clothes to wear or a nice bed to sleep as it might be night on SALT…it is dark there.