A Pinch of Perspective

If you ever want a perspective ask a kid and he will tell you the real joy to be derived of everything you have. They drink in every drop of the nectar they find irrespective of whether the juice is worth the squeeze. And if it wasn't then they just learn to let go and not crib and cry. I travel everyday in Mumbai local, 1st class!!! Every side for an hour and half, and I have seen the rich class traveling alongside the so called poor ones. Its a small Mumbai in itself. Everyone stands alike, smells alike and sleeps alike and if you got up to seeing your own reflection in the mirror u won't be able to make out who farted!!! You just can't tell who's who, u can't see the untouchable or the lower middle class or the guy living in hiranandani and you can't make out who is, 'criminally gay!!!' Well unless of course they want you to. Nobody screams or shouts when their imported shoes gets trampled upon or when someone drools on somebody's freshly creased shirt or the most painful of all when your nuts are left at the mercy of the crowd alighting at kurla station!!! Everyone just learns to live with it and simply no one complains. That's what i learnt in a journey of 3 hours everyday. Mumbai local teaches something everyday every journey gives a new perspective to life... it just carries on. No one knows you but they will help you catch your train on time, you will reach your destiny for sure but the time taken will be decided by the people you meet on life. Someone rightly said,"be benovelant to the people you meet on your way up, coz they will surely meet you on your way down".
The need is not to complain rather act or just live with it. On this 1st January while on my way to CRY office, a guy while boarding the local at washi was trying to get in and instead of holding the bar grabbed on to my face and broke my spectacle, that day I could have either gone blind and that might have been the end of blogging or I would have dealt with him on the train itself!!! Fortunately for both of us neither happened. In our life we are always rushing to please someone or the other and neglect the others we come across, its not that we have any obligation to acknowledge everybody but its definitely our duty to make sure they aren't harmed in our rat race. I have in these few days observed, learnt and implemented the three things that I saw...
a. Be on time if you don't want to be late.
b. Duniya me teen cheezon ke piche bhaagna padta hi hai boss... Bus, train aur ladki kyunki agar aap aadmi hain to aapko to babaji ka thullu bhi nhi milega
c. There will always be someone to forward his hand to you, but its up to you whether you want to hold on or leave it......sometimes for the good and sometimes for the worst!!!
-BM