Well it was a fine morning and I was stuck at the door or the jam packed bus (God bless BMTC). I literally don't have an inch to expand my diaphragm an catch a deep breath. I was collecting my ticket and change from the bus conductor when suddenly someone poked me on my shoulder. After managing to move around in that bus I got a look at the person who poked me. He was tall man , formally dressed but looked very frustrated. He shouted on me that whether I will move back to give him space to get off the bus or not. When he shouted, for a moment I was about to lose my temper coz I had a surgery a few weeks back and it was challenging enough for me to tak a bus ride when it was jam packed and above all a stranger shouting on me!!! Very hard to resist.
Suddenly I realized that he doesn't know my condition but I certainly do know his. How??
Because he can't see where is the pain in my body but I do know when I first took a glance on him. He is frustrated and want to get off the bus when its running at 50kmph. Fuck!! Then I sarcastically said that " could you please wait for a sec, an if you want to jump from a running bus you have to wait for that also cuz I don't have any room here." Everyone laughed and he felt weird but his frustrated face looks good then because he realized how rude he was to a complete stranger.
Then I thought why he was so messed up on the start of his day. Maybe because of his wife/roomies/parents or maybe he is so fed up of his work and he wants to get over with it ASAP. But this won't help at all.
People are now so little of empathy because of workload they are not supposed to take. They have their frustrations and they take that out on anyone they find.
Have a Lil fun. Go out for a week. Go to Goa . relax, enjoy, rejuvenate an then come back to work. It will not only take some stress off your shoulder, but also allows you to think clearly.
Have a good day.
