"EMU Diaries" - Day 16

Day 16– April 18, 2012

OK... let’s get back to reality…Enough of living in a fairy world and fantasizing about the future...Its time to fasten my seat belt and get ready for another day of learning. For that I need to get up from my bed and do the routine activities to face the public as a decent human being…The mask which we wear out to the world often becomes the face…

GZB-DEL

Same parking…Same helmet…Same amount tendered… Yet another day climbing the over bridge and looking at the time… Even the stray dogs now seem familiar. Got into the bogie and got seated. Every day in the bogie looks as if, it’s my second home… Paths are the same, only the destination changes… Middle aged ladies boarded, got seated and quickly went into a state of sleep.

Old age uncle was today missing…My eyes looked for him in the bogie but in vain. The value of a person is felt only when he is not there… At one of the interim station my friend got in and asked “Seems like you had done your prayer rituals today?” When asked why, he replied he noticed “Sacred Ash” on my forehead. Thought that these days, worshipping and spirituality is confined to only aged people… All this while bhajan camp was busy in their chanting… Imparting that we may live in this world but we should try to attain the supreme in our inner self…

Amidst all this insights, driver made us realize that its time to get started for the day. Got off and took my steps towards the class thinking that a step a day towards the spiritual journey would lead us to a content inner self…

DEL-GZB

Run baby run…EMU arrived at the platform while we were still on our way…Sprinted like an athlete only to find out that we had missed our train by couple of seconds…Not a big thing, it was indeed the delayed EMU which we thought to be on time… Grapes are sour… Friends were quite sad that we had missed our train by couple of seconds. Human beings dwell so much in lost opportunities that they seldom look out for more in the offering…

Regained by breath and senses…Yeah I am a bit obese (couch potato). We were not the only one who missed, there were other folks also. Refreshment bar owner bore the wrath of people who enquired him again & again about the train. Don’t get attached so much to circumstances or events. Let go… Train arrived as usual 30 min late but we transformed ourselves into a positive state of mind that we treated it to be on time. Adaptability and Compromise are the terms misunderstood these days…

We had our lunch. Plugged our earphone and transcended into a musical world, but to our dismay the cheap mobile handsets haunts us once again with another set of morons endorsing it. Decency is a word missing from the dictionary of some people… We wanted the train to arrive at the station at the earliest as we were in no mood of requesting the morons to lower their mobile volume.

Got off from the train like a flashing light only to get rid of screeching song played. Lived yet another day with the teaching that “Life is not a bed of roses, it’s the thrones which should be experienced to enjoy the beauty of the rose”…