I'm a survivor!

I can feel goosebumps on my back and hands as I write this.

A very very weird thing happened yesterday. After having spent a tiring day auditioning here and there, and a visit to my grandparents, and a little run behind a Best Bus, I was at a friends place chilling out. We were getting ready to watch a movie, my friend (looking at how amazingly tired I looked) suggested that I bathe. My eyes WERE kinda droopy so I thought it was a good idea too. In I went to the bathroom to take a bath. Didn't use the shower, used water from buckets. Well I am not going to tell you too much more about my bath, but midway through it, I raised my hand above my head and I heard something BURST! And then....there was darkness.

My friend's bathroom doesn't have a very high ceiling. It is probably 4-5 inches beyond my head. And the light-bulb holder on the side wall is pretty much on my forehead height. And being a Mumbai house, it is not huge....it is rented. So in this small bathroom with a low ceiling, when I raised my hand...sorry...my very wet hand...I accidentally touched the bulb I guess....and yeah...the bulb was naked too.

Back to the darkness. So there I stood, shocked...wet...and with soap on my body as the last bits of the glass fell to the floor. I was really numb. And then I felt a sharp sensation on my left shoulder. It was really freaky. I thought a glass piece had entered my shoulder, like shrapnel. It stung. I draped a towel around me and opened the door without moving my feet. From the light outside I looked at my shoulder. I felt it and luckily there was no glass on it. The bulb had burst behind my back and I was now worried if my back had pieces of glass sticking into it...or worse...my head!!! What if when they came out.....well you know....

My friend came over to me almost as shocked as I was. We checked my back and hair, and thankfully there were no glass pieces on me. Which is really cool, coz the bulb was really not that far away and when I looked at the bathroom, there was glass pretty much everywhere on the floor. Jesus. The thing on the shoulder? That's a burn. I don't know how, must have been a really small glass piece. It turned white in no time...and right now it is deep brown. I like it. I think it is cool, but I can't help but shudder when I think of what more it could have been. Really scary. Gifting my friend one of those tube light style illuminators. The ones that probably wont burst. eewwww. Goosebumps again.