If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
End of July, most parts of Northen India faced: Major power failure due to Northern power grid breakdown. Being Delhite, and being one of the victims of this power failure while driving down the South Delhi this is what I thought and decided to pen it down.
Suddenly, a normal usual technical failure in the afternoon which led to no power and most of the people who travel via different modes were on the roads in Delhi. Metro was impacted and thousands of passengers for whom the metro is a lifeline had no other choice but to use the road service. Hence, as per the logic, there will be more people, more traffic on the road. At this point, Traffic Lights also ditched the travellers which could have been savior. But, no worries Delhi is known as people with hearts, so we were facing all this bravely. On top of this, monsoon rains which we are not seeing so regularly and which is deficit this year also started pouring. Wow, I suppose, most of us have heard this phrase and it did fit aptly at this time"Bhagwan jabh deta hai toh chapphar fad ke deta hai". It means that when God gives, he gives by breaking down your ceiling. I hope I have translated it correctly. 
My father and me were driving down to Saket for some work on a weekday in the afternoon. At the IIT Gate Traffic Signal, we landed up in the soup which is known as The Traffic Jam.
No Traffic Lights, No policeman, all the four sides of the road on the crossing were crowded and everybody is in a hurry as everybody has some urgent work in such situations. We were also one of those.
At this point, for sure, there will be somebody who will try to out smart others and try to be more intelligent then everybody and he thinks he can cross the road and will not be a issue for others. As its a trend, so we had one here. I have tried to use my painting skills. Black Honda City was the culprit at this time over here. In this drawing, Car in the center is the Black Honda City and other blue and red lines are other vehicles from all other sides. Driver of this Honda City, decided to cross but there was somebody else in front of him, not s small vehicle but a big truck coming from the other side who came in front of him. And then, Black Honda City got stuck in between and hence everybody as no one could move even a inch back or in front. If one would have tried also, then we would have landed in something which is known as accident and added spices to the soup.
And then after 5 minute of wait, my father came out of his car and tried to ask some of the people to move so that this Black Honda City can move and hence some space can be made and traffic can start moving atleast. But, even if little space was made, we would get a biker or a scooterist from somewhere who would come to go from there and again we were back to square one. Father frustrated came inside and said nothing can happen of this and people. He was loosing his temper now as we had to reach as soon as possible and we were loosing time. And then after 15 minutes, we saw two traffic policeman came. I heard my father saying - "Now, people will listen and move". I didn't say anything as didn't want to get in the discussion mode at the wrong time, but kept thinking over the way.
Normally, we say that these Traffic Policemen don't do anything and at such hour, its these guys only who are making the difference and we listen to them. Also, we look forward for them, otherwise normally we pray and hope that they are not there on the traffic signals. Isn't it. Why are we like this??? But, here I am not to praise the policeman as have so much to say against them. So let's get onto what I was actually thinking.
Next thought which came to my mind was that why do we need a policeman to guide us. All those who are driving are above 18(As per the law, you cant get the licence before 18) so, for sure, crossed the teens and are very much adults. So, do we need a policing at this age also. Why were we acting like a kid and waiting for a person who might be younger to many of us who are there to tell that what should be done. Inspite of driving above 100 on highways, we need somebody to tell and guide us. Hmm....Infants, Kids need parents, children need parents and teachers to guide them. College students also needs teachers, parents. But are we not learning at each level of our age to grow intelligent and think independently and take the right decisions at the right time without looking upon a policeman. I am not talking just about policeman but different instances of our life also wherein we keep looking for some police to tell us inspite of the fact that we know more about the situation and have the ability to confirm that what's right and what's wrong but still we want somebody else to tell and that somebody should have the authority. For sure, we will listen to this authorized person are used to listening to authority and working as per that.
Please don't get confused by the term suggestion, advice which we should keep looking from anyone at any age and at any point of our life (Either the person with authority, our seniors in any form, or somebody who is expert in that area who can be younger to you also or some discussion which we have on and off with friends, strangers). At this point I am trying to mention about the things wherein we can take our own call but still we don't and we do some silly mistakes and get everybody else in the soup. Traffic Jam is just an example which triggered the thought process in my small brain.
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Why do we need Policing always????
