{"id":36,"date":"2024-01-22T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2024-01-22T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:59:44","slug":"dont-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/dont-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t look up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Don&#039;t Look Up by Apoorvo Chakraborty\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QlYy65cwDVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the last thing that people heard the voice upstairs say, but it wasn\u2019t the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started off as a small creak in the floor, a little disturbance to the late night news on tv.<br>Distant wailings in your otherwise quiet neighbourhood.<br>Minor inconveniences, delaying but not stopping the day to day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes your keys may go missing as you&#8217;re about to leave the house for that job you are already late for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you would flip to a channel that you swore was at 285 only to be greeted by white noise at first and then flash of images, fictional images, or so you hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in a few days, the TV would stop working all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And random books would fall from your shelf, books you don\u2019t remember buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the trouble with the voice, it didn\u2019t make you do anything, it just stopped and nudged you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the whispers would start.<br>By then it is too late.<br>The more you listen to them the louder the whispers grow.<br>You can try drowning them out with distractions, shows, reels and people alike,<br>And it might help for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the whispers are only muted, not silent,<br>When the noise stop they are all that remain<br>With terrifying questions of what if and why not?<br>And you would have no answer to whisper back.<br>And even if you did, how would you look, whispering to yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can try talking to other people about this,<br>They won\u2019t understand a word you are saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no whispering voices,<br>There is no channel 285.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just when you think, that you are slipping into madness,<br>Looking down at the moving traffic of the sane city from your terrace.<br>The voice will calm you down and say, if it is sane that you seek to be,<br>Don\u2019t look up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the last thing that people heard the voice upstairs say, but it wasn\u2019t the first. It started off as a small creak in the floor, a little disturbance to the late night news on tv.Distant wailings in your otherwise quiet neighbourhood.Minor inconveniences, delaying but not stopping the day to day. Sometimes your keys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiveramblings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}