The Daily Up Down!

The story starts from the way you can't choose to which parent you want to be born a child for and choose the school that promises to make your career, the same way you can't choose the place where you get employed for! It's the package and the designation. And then again, you just can't choose the transport you will travel in! It’s again chosen by the time you reach at home and how soon. The same way, Gurgaon chose me to give me the pain of traveling all the way from Delhi to reach out to my work place and then get back home. I chose the chartered bus that helps me in the daily up down.

 The fixed timing of the bus, the fear of not catching it on time, the fear of not getting  the seat and the fear of missing it and traveling all the way in a hap hazard way… keeps me on my toes. Waking up early is the toughest on the list! Wake up and the stop watch begins. The race to reach the bus stop starts at the very fraction of the second when the eyes see the clock and the heart says ‘Oh Shit! It’s 7”! And then the fear starts when I have to reach out to my pretty bus at 5 in the evening.

It’s that tough? Yes it is, but it’s limited to the time I don’t get into the bus. The moment I step in the bus, there’s a whole new world opened to me. The moment I enter the bus, there are people sitting, the same faces that I see every day, have had bid them morning sometime in my travelling career or have talked to them. It’s another family altogether!

Today. Sitting at the window seat with my music on, I was thinking on what life has given to me and Oh! Suddenly the mind said, stupid you have got a lot from everything you did and every person you met. I came back to the place I was sitting and realized, the bus I was traveling in had given me so much in itself… the life must have given me a lot more. It’s about realizing.

The chartered bus has given me friends of all age groups. There’s one who’s younger than me, there’s one who is elder to me, there’s one who is a married surd man, there’s another aunty who is going to get retired in 2014! Interesting! I talk to them every day on social issues, on fun, on eating, on everything. The minor point that I ignore is I am between the people of different mind sets, different upbringing with different work profiles!

It’s good to talk to people. Everyone is happy, everyone is content, everyone is busy - the baseline? The problems…. There is no man I have ever met who has no tensions at all, except me! I have to be forced to think about is my weight and keeping away from junk food, that’s it. :D But it’s about how these people react to their problems. The younger is spontaneous in her reactions, the older are calm. All this happens with age and with time and with experience. The more tensions you have in your life, the mature you are. It’s all about understanding things. I feel blessed to have some very nice people around with whom I share some special few hours. :)