Everyday would end before I hardly realize my day has begun. Days just
pass whereas I am totally indulged in my busy schedule. Today I wanted my day
to be different. I want to see the world around me is what I thought. It’s the same place, the
same normal-like day, same roads, same office and same schedule but still with
a difference.All I decided to do is watch what’s going on around me in a
different manner just for a day and thus began my day today
Every day when I go to
office, I would sit in my cab with full-on music with eyes closed (feeling the
lyrics of songs) and head rested on the seat or the second option would be I
would be busy flipping pages of novel that I read .Today for a change I only
put on my head set , played light music .Today I kept the window of my
cab open. I was sitting right near to the window. The cool breeze was making me
feel the chill of weather. And as decided I was watching everything around me
through the window. My cab had to put a break at one place due to traffic
signal. There I saw a lady standing with her two kids on the street (a baby gal
n a boy).Both kids were in their school uniform neatly dressed with a tie and
shoes and a two sided bag on their back plus their lunch bag. They were waiting
for school van I suppose. The boy was elder and the gal was younger .she looked
like nursery going and the boy probably High school, I assumed. I was in the
bus so all i could see was only the actions. The young gal was cranky abt going
to school .Her face expression said it all. Mother talks to her son. Her son
nods his head to what his mom told him and then immediately her elder son
kisses his sister on her forehead and whispers something. The baby gal smiles.
I wanted to see more of it but my cab started moving ahead. Probably mom gave
some idea to her son to bring her daughter out of cranky mood is what I thought.
As my cab was moving
ahead I saw a lady with uniform cleaning the roads, pushing all the fallen
leaves n dust on the road away with broom ...It looked like that was her
daily duty and she would be paid for it. I also saw a van of school kids all in
school uniform...I peeped into the van. This was the best, as I saw two kids in
deep sleep in the van. One kid was snoring with mouth open. Among other kids
three kids were playing among themselves with their hands, talking to each
other .The other kid was with book open mugging up something. One more boy was
busy looking outside the window. He looked at me all of a sudden. I smiled and
waved him bye. He smiled too but no bye. May be he was too shy to wave a bye or
maybe his parents might have warned not to be too friendly with strangers in a
city which is actually good.
There we go, our cab
stuck in between traffic. People were fed up waiting for traffic to get
cleared. Frustration was seen on their face but I don’t know i was totally
chilled out n all happy. All these tiny things that I was watching were making
me happy.
Now I could see a
building construction that was going on through the window .How they load
cement pull it up, and then unload the cement in it and again the process continues.
Next inside my cab I could see a gal trying to pick eye lash fallen on her
frens cheek n give it in her frens hands. Simultaneously, I could see people getting down their vehicles
going at the side and bending down to get a peep of traffic as to when the
traffic might get cleared. I could read frustration of waiting, on few people’s
face.I observed a guy with
his friend behind him on bike (He was calm probably was the only guy who was
chilled out among many around who were totally frustrated of traffic) my cab
moved a little front n now it stood next to another bus. Now i could see a gal
in deep sleep inside the other bus near the window. I thought lucky gal who got
fourty five extra mins to sleep in the bus bcos of traffic. ;) There was
another gal in the same bus playing some game in her cell. There was a cartoon
n some bridge kind of bars. All she had to do was make the cartoon jump over
that bridge, one bridge after one...I could see she completed two levels and
then my bus started moving again.
It started raining. The
moment it started raining I cud see raindrops on my window n later it had
covered all over the window pane. The lady who was in front seat of me closed
the window as it started raining. I wanted to open it. When it started raining heavily
i did open the window. I put my hand out. Tried to collect the rain drops but
it’s difficult to do so, collecting rain water drops in hands is not an easy
task.The gal
who had closed the window turns back n looks at me. I gave her a smile. She
could see me stretching both my hands out n playing in the rain...She smiles
back at me n shifts to sum other seat.(I thought that was an indication that
now I can open the window fully and enjoy the rain)By then the traffic was
cleared n slowly my cab starts moving. Now i wanted to put my face out through
the window and get it wet and i did it but not completely as i had to be aware
of my one n only one head. Could not take a risk on that .Also that Wipro’s
tiny little work was dependent on this head now. ;) Then came my office. Not to
forget music was on all the way to keep me full on to observe all this.
I don’t know the reason
but I had the best feeling that day. I felt Life is very beautiful and I am
missing nothing in it. Every person on this earth can find happiness but just
that only few people will happen to see it and rest are too busy looking at the
negative side of life day to day. Life comes once, Love it and Live it.
