I have always loved my work. Beating the thirty-nine storied, glass enclosed escalator at Floating Garden Observatory in Osaka’s Umeda Sky Building, I sought the challenge of going beyond to making a forty storied building’s escalator. I worked assiduously; maps of the building, the land, the area, researches, everything! There were drawings all over. After six months, the design was complete.
The construction started. However, I wished to see it ready and running. One morning, after two years, I found an invitation waiting at my desk. It was an invite to the grand opening of the Palais Grande, advertising the escalator that broke all records till date.
The most awaited night arrived. I had the most beautiful vision of the escalator as I was driving my car, just when a gigantic lorry came towards me from the perpendicular road. I woke up in the hospital to find that I could neither see nor hear anymore. I went to Palais Grande on 2-April-2008 for the first time. I could not see anything, I could not hear anything, I could not hear myself scream in agony.
Today, ten years since the accident, I have been using the escalator twice every day. I am thrilled every time I hop onto it now. I still have the image of the escalator as I did ten years ago. I can feel the conveyer belt, the velocity, its height, the gravity pulling me back, the elevation, above all the feeling of accomplishment on reaching the top.
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Welcome back :)
i second anu :)
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