Your schedule is really hectic and chaotic.
- Wake up 4 am thinking ‘did I really sleep, at all?’. Just brush the teeth, wash the face, change the clothes and walk fast(run) a mile in the dark hours to catch the bus. No, you haven’t forget the morning “nature’s call” in the list. It is omitted and postponed for a reason. If you “go”, you would miss the bus.
- Ride the bus for an hour and try to catch up the sleep. But this rusty bus and its loose glass windows that makes a hell lot of noise will not let you sleep.
- Get down in the town where your job is located. From there, ride another bus or rickshaw and rush to a small room that you rented. Now here, complete your “nature’s call”, take a shower and walk/run to the office.
- In the office, fix the code and get ready to go to a client-site, an hour drive away, for the installations and other stuff.
- Work fast enough so that you can leave at regular evening hours for home.
- Come down to the office from client-site and update your days’ work to rigid/rude/inhumane managers.
- Leave the office and simply RUN 5-10 minutes to catch rickshaw or whatever. Walking will not get you to the train station ontime.
- Reach the station to catch the train to your neighbouring town.
Upon reaching the station you find that the train has juuuuuuust left the station, leaving you alone to wait for another 1.5 hour. You are tired, hungry and simply exahusted. You don’t like to talk or rather, you don’t have energy to talk something interesting with fellow waiting passengers on the train station. You just want to reach home ASAP, have a nice warm dinner and go to bed. That’s it….
After a long wait, the next train arrives. Well, this is not the end of your troubles. The arriving train is not supposed to be ridden by ‘monthly pass holder’ like you. But you don’t care, because there is a whole group of ‘monthly pass holders’ who are ready to take risk to reach home. And if you don’t ride on this train, the next local-train will be after another hour or so. It’s already 7:30 PM and you just want to reach home. You look out for that group’s leader – a simple looking, mid-age, almost bald, factory-worker who always wears “Dev Anand Style” cap. Among all the people, you make sure that the bald guy is there. The confidence grows in you, and you get into the ‘general’ compartment of the train, with lots of hassle and pushing, with other 500 passengers. The compartment capacity is hardly 200 people. And with you, the compartment has already swallowed 1001 passengers.
The train slowly starts. From where you are standing, near the door, you can see that your ‘monthly pass holders’ group leader (that bald guy) is the last one to enter the compartment. He always sits on the door steps.
The train is moving fast. You are praying that ‘TC’ (Ticket Collector) should not show up. If he shows up, that bald-leader would collect Rs.5 for each ‘monthly-pass holder’ and handover the money to TC so that he would allow us all to ride till the destination.
With the fast moving train, all noises slow down. And you are thinking of your chaotic day so far. Those thoughts are making you more nervous and you feel some kind of suffocation with the life. You are constantly thinking of breaking this boring, tense cycle. But you can’t…
…And all of a sudden, this bald ‘dev anand’ removes his cap, feels the wind and starts a very very sweet whistle. The whistle itself is very very soothing, nice and pleasant to hear. He always plays a hindi song on the whistle,
“duniyaa kare sawaal to hum, kyaa jawaab de?
tum kaun ho khayaal to hum kyaa jawaab de?”
He also sings this song after the whistle. His voice is just perfect. And all of a sudden your worries and hurries simply fade away, at least till the next early morning.
