Thanks for paying your attention here if you did, but I would like you to pay attention at something that I would express views on.
I live in Mumbai, a city which keep moving even inspite of incidents like bomb blast, riots, bandh. We are fearless people who would like to move on even though strong storms come our way.
All my blogs have been on some message that I would like to give to the readers, and this one won't be much different.
We all have something that is very precious and given by GOD, its called "LIFE"
Nowadays situations are such that when a person goes out of the house isn't guaranteed that he/she will return safely back.
The obvious reasons are the bomb blast, terrorist attacks, incidents which can't be avoided like earthquakes, flood, etc etc AND INCIDENT THAT CAN BE AVOIDED or I should say accidents that can be avoided like train accident, rough riding etc etc.
Few days back incident: I was travelling in train, and suddenly a old person get into the train, after sometime he takes out his cell phone and rings someone. In a loud tone he starts speaking to someone, catching everyone attention in the compartment. During his 10 mins conversation on the phone, we came to know that he was a train driver and someone came under his train which killed him.
The way he narrated his story to the person on the other side of the phone was pathetic and I personally felt disgusted and felt like giving him badwords.
He was talking to the person on the other side of the phone as if he had done a great job by knocking down the person and the irony is that he was giving badword to the person who died under his train.
The way he narrated was really annoying, and one more thing that I came to know was that he wasn't the actual driver of the train, the actual person who had to drive the train was not feeling well so he took the charge.
He was narrating in the following manner:
I was driving the train and the actual driver was not well so I took the charge, and when the train left the shed there was a $#%^ who was crossing. I honked twice but he took the risk of crossing resulting in his death and the train hit him so hard that he flew like a FOOTBALL. ( He nearly repeated this sentence twice or thrice ).
I know it was the mistake of the person too who was crossing, but there was nothing to take pride if someone gets killed coming under your train, and the exaggeration was even more pathetic.
I mean leave the driver aside, but why are we in such a haste? I am totally against crossing tracks, but if its extremely unavoidable then crossing should be taken care of because what we perceive and what happens is different. We get a feel that we will make it, but the trains approaches even more faster than what we guess. I mean your life may not be precious to yourself, but someone is waiting for you to return home.
The most horrible death is train accident, because people die a struggling death, and i've encountered such a situation where in I nearly witnessed death at my feets. I assumed that I would cross the track easily while the train was leaving the platform, I quickly ran and crossed but on turning back I just realized how close I was to death. There was quite a less gap when the train crossed by me. The ladies in the train were shouting at me.
After this incident, the first thing that striked my mind was my mom, dad, brothers face as to how they would feel on hearing that I m no more.
Take more 10 mins but cross carefully, infact use the bridge. Going some where 10 mins won't affect much but if you loose your life then it would really be a punishment to your near and dear ones.
This won't strike your mind now, but being put in the situation is what would make you realize as it did make me realize.
Please a humble request, be very safe and travel safely. Some things are in our hand so don't be careless and do something for your loved ones.
Finally I would say, better be LATE than being Mr/Mrs. LATE
Thanks for reading.
Keep smiling cheers!!!!!!!!!
Nidhinpp
