I've got visual...

"What's that? I've got visual".... Wonder what those words are doing here within  quotes and the latter having made it to be the title of this article? Let me explain. Those are the dialogues from a game- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Predator. The game revolves around Sri Lanka's militants and their elimination. In the end, rescuing the president is the ultimate mission. Well, one day when i was so much involved in playing this game while on my way to Kumbakonam, there was complete darkness in the bus and the light from my PSP screen was beaming into my eyes. I was playing the game to keep myself awake as they say, one shouldn't sleep while on way to a temple. Having boarded the bus at 3a.m, i chose to play and finish off the game before i reach my destination. My team was making it through the dense fog and the forest vegetation and i heard those words "what's that? I've got visual"... It was just a militant finding something fishy on the shrubs but for me these words began to get deeper and deeper. "I've got visual"... It kept echoing from inside and in the darkness and the silence, i began to ponder over the phrase. "What's that? I've got visual.."

I quit playing the game and it was completely dark. I checked my phone. It was not even half hour since i boarded the bus and i had a 6 hour journey ahead of me with daylight due only after 3 full hours. In the dark, i am prone to wild imaginations and as such this phrase started to spearhead the attack this time. I was completely sunk, this phrase has something in it. Or else, i wouldn't have been dragged into this so called reverie. Sleep was gone. I just kept repeating the words inside. "What's that? I've got visual..." All of a sudden, i took my phone; checked the calendar, the time, the number of days, in fact couple of months it has been till now. The phrase came back. "What's that? I've got visual"... It reminded me of something i had inside me all these days. Right from that last phone call, "What's that?" it is the strained and stained relationship. "I've got visual" Yes, till date, as i had vowed, i still have the same visual. I still have the same hope. I can visualise it again. I can see it happen. I can visualise it anytime. I have come all this way with the visual. So, "what's that? i've got visual" began to make sense. 

Visualise! c'mon people! Visualise. That's it. You will reach it. Or, it can be the other way too. If you are able to visualise something in some way you want it to be, then, you are already in the path of attaining or achieving it. Visualising, here does not mean dreaming. I did not dream. I don't have time to dream. I have a visual. I am working on it and i know it will happen. In the visual, there are many moments and this is one moment i foresaw once upon a time. I learnt this art through a casual personality development programme and through few documentaries i came across over the years. I carefully visualise, i am able to hold on to my nerve at any demanding situation and scenario just because of this ability to carefully visualise. It is important to note that one should not just focus on the end point in the visual. Make sure, you are equally focused throughout the moments. You will make it. Now, i know i am going to make it. I know i must make it to live through the visual. So, do i want all of you to visualise and attain it. 

I reached for my PSP from my camper and i found i still had couple of hours for daylight. I continued to play the game and whenever  the enemy spots my team approaching, he would utter those words "What's that? I've got visual"... and as for the game, it was being detected by the enemy but for my mind, it means more than that. Now, What's that? I've got visual... ;-)