I drive a scooter that is 11 years older than me. Its the Italian - Vespa 150 model. My dad bought it almost after 7 years from when it was born. He used it for 24 years and from the year 2002, I have been using it. I hate people (by people i especially mean car-drivers) who make me apply brakes of my scooter.
Day before yesterday, I was as usual late for my office and was driving at the maximum possible speed that the engine of my 34 year old scooter could support. A car was in front of me and as expected, I had to apply brakes. Instant reaction was of course yell at the driver. But for the first time, I felt proud of the car-driver. Not only that, I was surprised that I felt proud of one more person who was not the car-driver, a young boy waiting at a bus stand.
They were just another citymates of mine. So what was so special about them?
The driver applied the brakes because a blind man was crossing the road. Seeing that the young boy came running towards that man, caught hold of his hand and slowly made him cross the road.
Great job! I was proud of my citymates. We should do things just as we would like them to be done for us. If we can shout at a person driving madly when we are crossing the road, should we not slow down when someone else is crossing the road? How many of us do that? Do you do that? There are many such blind men in our cities, many old people who cross roads in heavy traffic, many women, many men and many more kids who do so. If you are doing what those two guys did, I am proud of you too!
Day before yesterday, I was as usual late for my office and was driving at the maximum possible speed that the engine of my 34 year old scooter could support. A car was in front of me and as expected, I had to apply brakes. Instant reaction was of course yell at the driver. But for the first time, I felt proud of the car-driver. Not only that, I was surprised that I felt proud of one more person who was not the car-driver, a young boy waiting at a bus stand.
They were just another citymates of mine. So what was so special about them?
The driver applied the brakes because a blind man was crossing the road. Seeing that the young boy came running towards that man, caught hold of his hand and slowly made him cross the road.
Great job! I was proud of my citymates. We should do things just as we would like them to be done for us. If we can shout at a person driving madly when we are crossing the road, should we not slow down when someone else is crossing the road? How many of us do that? Do you do that? There are many such blind men in our cities, many old people who cross roads in heavy traffic, many women, many men and many more kids who do so. If you are doing what those two guys did, I am proud of you too!
4 comments:
Using one's own experience to bring an important point home is charming and more personal, it steps away from being sermonizing. The fact that you have well described your reactions of wanting to scream at the driver makes me identify with it more!
Civic sense and responsibilities are the need of the hour to make Ahmedabad truly the mega city that it claims to be! Thanks, a pleasant morning this has been.
Teri Dhanno mein abhi jaan hain.
Dil khush ho jaata hai yeh padh kar. For once, I think being late to office was worth it.
Woh baccha kitne saal ko hoga?
:)
that is a rare sighning...have hardly seen this kind of kind behaviour in mumbai...so that was real special...glad u documented it..
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