This journey started on a fine Monday evening, I wanted to buy a book so I decided to start for the bookshop and none of my friends answered my phone call (yeah none of themK) I was on my own that day. I was standing on one side of the road the bus stop was on the opposite side so I had to wait to cross the road to reach the bus stop. Waiting to cross the roads may really get on your nerves especially when the roads are damn busy and the traffic police are in their wit’s end by regulating the traffic, people on the same time tend to cross the road on every chance they get even when there are vehicles approaching towards them, I was standing there criticizing my fellow citizens for not following the traffic rules at the same time the bus that I wanted to catch was in the bus stop but I couldn’t catch it on time as these days, due to my new resolution I’m following each and every rule perfectly(So that I can criticize others with a peace of mind :P) and by the time I reached the bus stop it was flooded with unwanted buses(at least for me :P) I had to wait for another 15 mins until the “wanted” bus reached the bus stop.
The bus was crowded like %^&*, I was forced to stand on the footboard (I have successfully reached my first destination) and it was nothing new to me as a daily traveler of the MTC buses I was used to these situations but today was different there was this boy standing next to me who was casting an angry look on me I was checking whether I was standing on his feet but I wasn’t, later I discovered the reason for his angry look, I was blocking his view of gang of girls whom he was trying to impress(here here I’m not stating that I’m goody goody boy who won’t look at girls I was kinda already pissed off and I’m not good at impressing girls anywhere let alone a bus :P) so trying not to disappoint a fellow boy I’m moved aside n tried to enter further into the crowd and that was my worst blunder, I was pushed into the hell(smashing crowd) who were almost crushing my bones and I can’t find where my left was(not literally :P).Thanks to the 1.2 billion population of India which made such situations possible, right now I needed something that I can hold on for support, yeah “The Pole” I set my sight on my next destination.
I had a hard time reaching my next destination, I had to squeeze myself through the crowd to get hold of the pole. Why I wanted to get my hands on the pole so badly? The answer is quite simple, for every human travelling in bus who is standing the pole is a paradise it gives you a place to hold and lean on (for people who are tired of standing :P). Just then I was managed to get a glimpse of the outer world so that I can know where I’m, I was literally shocked the bus has crossed only 20% of the distance that I had to travel. I had no other choice but to continue in that damned bus. As I mentioned before, the pole was a paradise for the people standing so it naturally drew some competitors for the spot I was struggling to keep up with their attempts to get y spot, just then a friend called me to apologize was not attending the call before I hope you all know how hard it is take the mobile from your jean so I had no other way but to leave my spot near the pole in the effort to attend the phone call. After that I was back in hell cursing my friend for calling at such a time but suddenly there appeared some daylight, some people who were “seated” were getting down so I had a chance to reach my final destination of this rather absurd journey. I had to fight lot to reach the destination and I finally made it there.
The final destination is the best part of any journey and this one is no exception. Once when I got my seat it was like I have achieved something (lol :P).If you look back closely this absurd journey sure does teach you a lesson, you have to struggle to reach your goal, you will always have some competition and you should never fail to take your chances. Coming back to the story, I finally reached the book shop and was told that it ran out of stock and they asked me come back the next day. I got the book next day and it was a different story and I’m not gonna blog about that(:P).
