Door

Imagine a life, when you have to share your room with your sister or brother or even your mother. And then finally when we get a chance we take a deep breath and feel, finally we are on our own. What a feeling that is!

I too felt that if I lived on my own I would feel like as if I am on top of the world. Yes! I am. Probably not on top of the world, but the last floor of my apartment building. I moved into my new flat with two roommates sometime in Nov. The winter was just starting in Hyderabad. Everything looked good. Ours is a duplex flat, and my room is the one on top.

There is a spiral staircase that leads up to my spacious room. As soon as you climb up, there is a huge French window (the one that is like a door from the bottom to the top) on the right. This led to a terrace with a nice view of the City. It was all nice. But the worst part was that, my room doesnt have a door!!

But I compromised and thought that with a lovely terrace and a spacious room what else could one need. My flatmates promised that they wouldnt come up without my permission, and that sounded like a fair deal. So I compromised and took up the room without a door.

Advantages -

• I can just rush out without locking the door
• Doesn't feel claustrophobic
• I can only think of these two

Disadvantages -

• Anyone can walk into your room
• Esp when you are not ready
• If you think you can pull a 'commando' without anyone seeing, you are gravely mistaken
• If you want to drive someone out or maybe slam the door in anger - well wadya know - NO DOOR!
• The feeling of not having a door makes you feel incomplete, like a house without a roof
• This feeling intensifies, when I would have watched a horror/thriller flick on TV
• Birds somehow love the door less room (I had to once try and catch a pigeon with my roommate and make it fly out of my room)
• When you want you rommies to know you want to be felt alone, again there is no door!

So you see, my door less life has no ending. Hence I have decided, I am going to shift into another place. And the first thing I am gonna check is if the doors are intact! Now as the temperature rises I have realised what a mistake I have made. Because even if I do get a cooler, the space to cool is not limited or cut off by a door. That would mean more electricity and less cooling.

I am on a serious lookout now for a room with a door, and hopefully by end of this month I will find one.