Drone Light Show
Sunday, March 26, 2023
I deeply value the dark. The monotonous patterns of daily life literally exhaust me and by the end of each semester, I'm eagerly looking forward to just blocking every Ray of light (possible) outside my bedroom. and then just sitting there on my fuzzy brown carpet or burying myself under my cold comforter until the unseen gives me the energy to socialize and get back to life, (although I wasn't dead of course).
Something absolutely else awaited me, on the finish of grade 9 final term. It was in the month of February, also the month of celebration, water fights, flags and lightening, (here in Kuwait). (usually we would be free only by march but we all know it’s different for grade 9, by march you're already sitting in your next class i.e. tenth grade.) So this time, unlike my usual pattern, I was looking forward to travelling on the bright with red, green, white and blue (which is used to represent the black in the Kuwaiti flag) lights, streets. The wonderful and eye catching decorations in no matter which part of the country you go to, brings everyone on the streets during the evenings of this month of National day and liberation day celebrations. This was also followed by the Drone Light Show at the Kuwait Towers on the 28th of February this year. Just like the name suggests it’s an exciting event organized, of fireworks, laser and light shows.
what’s very natural is that the whole of the population in Kuwait would want to witness the show, the natives and the expats. So to avoid road traffic, the Arabian gulf street was partially closed for the spectacular fireworks at Kuwait towers. The General Traffic department made provisions for number of busses from various public squares and parking lots for vehicles at Hawally Park, Sharq Market and other places. we reached Hawally Park at 5 hoping to find a seat in a public bus (this was 3 hours prior to the show) yet found never ending rows of people waiting for the same. the people were all dressed in the colors which brighten the month and it was a site for sure.
By 6 in the evening, there we were, all excited, jumping around, laughing and waiting just like everyone else was. As time came closer to 8 PM (the timing for the beginning of the show), the crowds got denser and denser and for the first time I was happy to see crowds.
The clock strike 8, the eyeballs rolled up, all tough I was too busy gazing the sky, I know for fact that every eye present there was stuck up in the sky. The event started with laser shows, and fire crackers which were so colorful and beautiful, as the date has it, all cameras were out. Images of the Kuwaiti Flag, the king of Kuwait, water tanks, under sea Obstacles, the Palace and more, were formed on the dark canvas, the evening sky. During the show, the children kept calling their fathers, who were standing next to them, some were even sitting on their father’s shoulders and yet calling them, of course of excitement. And this just took me back to so much of my childhood, that's what I always did. Children just need their parents to see what excites them. There was so much of love and excitement in the air, I got caught up in how the children were shouting, laughing and clapping, I guess that remains the best part of every event.
After the show was over, the restaurants were packed, I know this, because I was there too. After all of it, we came home, by then it was past 12 AM, while writing my diary I realized, how different this was from what I would usually record in it, I realized, sometimes light could be just as amazing as darkness!
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