Delhite Daily Travel and Human Machines!!!
Metro, Buses, Cabs everywhere on the roads but not a place to sit.
This is the situation between 8 to 11 AM and between 5 to 8 PM in Delhi everyday.Being a delhite, I am also part of this and cannot avoid it.
Delhi has very good infrastructure and good connectivity through roads and metro system but still due to the rising city needs we face the traffic everyday.
Bus in Delhi
I know how to drive but I am not very confident enough to drive to the office. Hence, I travel by public transport bus.
Today was also as usual day. I took the Bus No. 392 from Hyatt Hotel. Normally, I get seat in the bus as its almost the beginning stop of the bus. The bus journey is for almost 1.20 hours. So either, I sometimes take nap, or just sit and think (ME Time) or sometimes I read the book.
This week I started reading 'Atlas Shrugged'. Kind of liking the book as of now. I took the tickets and sat down and started with my book. Almost half journey was covered and I felt a bit sleepy, so closed the book and my eyes too.
Why can't we live our present? I am not saying that we should not think of the future and not invest and etccc.....We should, but why are we just running and not able to smile on the small things.
Metro, Buses, Cabs everywhere on the roads but not a place to sit.
This is the situation between 8 to 11 AM and between 5 to 8 PM in Delhi everyday.Being a delhite, I am also part of this and cannot avoid it.
Delhi has very good infrastructure and good connectivity through roads and metro system but still due to the rising city needs we face the traffic everyday.
Bus in DelhiI know how to drive but I am not very confident enough to drive to the office. Hence, I travel by public transport bus.
Today was also as usual day. I took the Bus No. 392 from Hyatt Hotel. Normally, I get seat in the bus as its almost the beginning stop of the bus. The bus journey is for almost 1.20 hours. So either, I sometimes take nap, or just sit and think (ME Time) or sometimes I read the book.
This week I started reading 'Atlas Shrugged'. Kind of liking the book as of now. I took the tickets and sat down and started with my book. Almost half journey was covered and I felt a bit sleepy, so closed the book and my eyes too.
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| Today's Situation of my morning travel to Office |
Suddenly a creeping sound and bus stopped. Driver made the announcment that some issue in the coolant and hence, we need to get into the next bus. I had nothing to feel. Ok, we all came out. Next bus came and some of the passengers from this bus got into the same. It was crowded, I was not able to enter. Then the second and third bus came, highly crowded and hence I kept on standing on the road waiting for the next bus. Fourth bus came, and I decided to get in. It was almost full, five of us tried to get in. I decided whatever it is, I will get it. I was kind of the last one to get it and I can't believe even now that I got in the bus and travelled like this. I have no photo/picture of the same but I took one picture from google and posting it here. I had just one foot on the bus and 2nd was on top of it. My bag on my back. One hand holding the handle and other holding my book.I Was almost 3/4th in the air.
I travelld like this for almost 4-5 km. And one push from inside and I Would have been on road and gone forever, but still I didnt feel like getting angry on anybody. There was no frustration that why and what. I Was just standing, bit smiling on seeing that if somebody sees me likes this then ... No comments.
After the next stop, some people got down and I got a place to stand inside the bus.
I travelld like this for almost 4-5 km. And one push from inside and I Would have been on road and gone forever, but still I didnt feel like getting angry on anybody. There was no frustration that why and what. I Was just standing, bit smiling on seeing that if somebody sees me likes this then ... No comments.
After the next stop, some people got down and I got a place to stand inside the bus.
Story of this unusual thing in my daily routine ends here but maybe this is the normal routine for most of the people everyday here and in most parts of the world. I have so many things going in my mind thinking of this that where are we all rushing and why? What if by mistake, somebody would have given a push and I on the road. I know, I would have been writing this blog from either heaven or hell. What else would have happened. Police, Hospital, Cries, sadness and some more sadness and after some years again its a normal life. Whenever the blasts happen, breath stops for so many, so many of them who are still breathing cry for them but next day they are back on the road running here and there for money, for food, for job, cursing each other and what not...Do we stop???
Why can't we live our present? I am not saying that we should not think of the future and not invest and etccc.....We should, but why are we just running and not able to smile on the small things.
This is not the sitiuation of Delhi, or India or one part of the world but it is is for all over the world. One just gets up in the morning like a machine. As he has been told by his doctor, so does some excerices but keeps on thinking of all what meetings he has to do in the whole day. Take breakfast like the daily dose of medicine. Get onto the road by some means of transport. Reach Office. Work mechanically and back again on the road. Back home, have dinner - last dose of the medicine and go to sleep. Bonus, if you get the time to talk to your family for some minutes.
Where and for what are we heading for???
