7

It's quite interesting how something generally considered small and insignificant can spawn so many thoughts in one's head. I got an email from a friend. The subject read 7. By the time I hit to open the mail, numerous thoughts flooded my brain.

First of, it reminded me of two things - The seven deadly sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride) and the movie 7 based on them, and a friend I used to call '7' in Engineering.

I got reminded that I had decided years ago 7 to be my lucky number because the board game 'Business' that I used to play with my brother (long before we had a computer at home), a score of 7 on the dice on the first roll would fetch me Rs. 2000 (or was it dollars?).

Such unrelated events brought together and thought about almost simultaneously just by the subject of a mail. And all this in a matter of only a few seconds. The mind works in mysterious ways!