The first rain every monsoon always has shared a special feeling with me. I haven't missed on getting wet in the first rain, but this year round it was different.
Today was the day which witnessed first rain in Mumbai after few drizzles and light showers that fell occasionally. Normally every year, I enjoy monsoon with my friends playing football. It's damn fun, trust me there is no better feeling than getting wet while playing football especially in the first rain beating down the enormous heat faced during the warm summer. Today I missed getting wet and missed playing football during the first shower, mainly due to my job. As I was working late hours I missed getting wet, moreover while on my way home I had few important books in my bag along with my smart phone and my wallet. This refrained me from getting wet.
I would share what I did get, rather than what I missed on.
On Reaching Dadar station around 8:30 pm and seeing the indicator showing 7:26, I was assured that I would face a hectic travelling today. While descending the bridge, the only thing that I could view was human heads all over. It was a heck of a crowd and it was justified due to trains being one hour late. In some time 7:26 train arrived but I couldn't board it due to heavy rush, which ultimately landed me in the next train which was a Dadar start local and that assured me a place where to stand peacefully if not comfortably.
It started raining heavily by the time I reached my destination, I got down and it started raining like never before, lighting and thundering. It got too scary for a moment or so, but ultimately the Mumbaikars weren't affected.
I assured myself that I would wait for sometime rather than gushing into the rain and getting wet. I had some important books with me, and no plastic too using which I could have protected my books and cell phone and my wallet and then getting wet would have been quite fun.
I nearly waited for an hour on the station bridge, meanwhile enjoyed small small drops of rain.
This one hour was something special.
Project partner: During my final year, I had worked on a project with my friend and later on she became one of my close friends, later we both had a fight and stopped speaking with each other. From the past one year she had never contacted me and neither did I take a step forward. Today early noon she pinged me on my mail, but I refrained from giving a response.
The same friend went pass through me and she was totally wet, and for an instance I felt like talking to her, but she was wet and her train was just approaching the station. I again refrained from talking to her.
A physically handicapped person: A physically handicapped person too got all wet, and his cycle vehicle was lifted by two men and took it to the top of the bridge, but the way the vehicle was kept it got all wet. It was really sad to see that handicapped person struggling to get to the top of the bridge crawling.
Umbrella seller: As it was the first rain hardly any one carried their umbrellas, suddenly from no where, a umbrella seller came and put umbrellas for sale. I've never seen so many people buying umbrellas like this, the umbrella seller was at the right place at the right time. He must have enjoyed a huge profit, and all his defected umbrellas also must have been sold out.
Unknown help: The rain didn't seem to stop and it was raining since an hour, so I preferred seeking some help from someone having a umbrella. One unknown person, had two umbrella. I quickly approached him and asked for help. He said he was waiting for his bro, and that made me loose hope and made me step behind. But when his brother came, he gave his second umbrella to his bro, and called me and shared his umbrella with me. It was really kind, and emotional too. The way that it was raining, if he agreed on giving me help he too would have got help. But it didn't matter to him, he offered me help and as I was helpless I too accepted his help. He dropped me till the main road which was 10 mins walk from the station and he literally dropped me till the bus-stop as his destination was in the opposite site of the bus-stop. When he dropped me till there, I thanked him whole heartedly.
In return he said me "Boss today I helped you, tomorrow you will help me and this is what's humanity."
His words really impressed me, and I felt like thanking him once again. It's because of such incidents, I always prefer helping people.
A day which was something different if not special.
Keep smiling cheers
Happy monsoon
Kind Regards,
Nidhinpp
