Hello !
I've been travelling in the metro since the past ten days or so, during the Office hours to reach my internship location. It takes around an hour just in the metro itself. Now, during the initial days, I had all sorts of things in my mind, "Why am "I" doing this ?", "Why is life so competitive ? " and God knows what not. I mean, there were quite a number of things in my mind on the same lines. It's not like a sudden epiphany or something, but within three four days, I started seeing familiar faces. That woman who would sit and watch movies on her Samsung Tab ( who would be in the metro when I would get on, meaning it takes her even longer to reach her destination ), that group of three women who would enter the metro together and NO ONE would be spared of the observation that someone new has come in ( :P ), that old lady who carries her laptop with her and refuses to sit when someone especially gets up and offers a seat to her. The pair of friends, one of whom has recently gotten married and is often applauded by the other one for managing both house and office work. All these people, and so many more. I am sure if I be a tiny bit more observant, I will get to know about many more such people. All regular people, getting up at 7 in the morning to catch the 7:40 metro, so that they reach their offices by 9. All of them have the same story. Broadly, all of them are the commuters of the 7:40 metro.
Sometimes we feel, that it is impossible for someone else to understand what's happening. We give petty issues so much importance, so much importance that it seems like nothing worse could have happened. That day, I was going to board the metro and the escalator was not working. Early morning no escalator. And immediately what do I say to myself ? "Oh God, that's the worst thing that can happen, taking the stairs early in the morning", and within half a minute, I am laughing at my own stupidity ( The security guard checking me that day surely thought something was fishy seeing the goofy eyed expression on my face ). I don't know whether you do this or not, but I do and I have started consciously keeping a check now :P
My point was, we feel it's impossible for someone else to understand what's happening. You know what ? We all are going through our own battles. We all are just so same. I don't know, it's like things have started making sense all of a sudden :P No, I haven't lost it and probably this clarity won't even last for long because seriously speaking it's too difficult to look for logic in this haphazard, ever-so-fast, competitive World anymore.
It's just that, there is this quote from the book P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, if you haven't read the book, I request you to read it, if nothing else then just for this quote :P I read this around six years back and loved it right then, just yesterday I re-read it and suddenly it seemed absolutely perfect. Here's what it is:
"The thing to remember is, even if we are all alone, we are together in that too."
It just brings some sense of peace to realise that you are not alone. You have someone with you, you don't have to do it all alone. Look around, there will be someone, someone fighting a battle similar to yours and if that's not the case, then everyone is together in being alone as well ;)
It's just beautiful.
I've been travelling in the metro since the past ten days or so, during the Office hours to reach my internship location. It takes around an hour just in the metro itself. Now, during the initial days, I had all sorts of things in my mind, "Why am "I" doing this ?", "Why is life so competitive ? " and God knows what not. I mean, there were quite a number of things in my mind on the same lines. It's not like a sudden epiphany or something, but within three four days, I started seeing familiar faces. That woman who would sit and watch movies on her Samsung Tab ( who would be in the metro when I would get on, meaning it takes her even longer to reach her destination ), that group of three women who would enter the metro together and NO ONE would be spared of the observation that someone new has come in ( :P ), that old lady who carries her laptop with her and refuses to sit when someone especially gets up and offers a seat to her. The pair of friends, one of whom has recently gotten married and is often applauded by the other one for managing both house and office work. All these people, and so many more. I am sure if I be a tiny bit more observant, I will get to know about many more such people. All regular people, getting up at 7 in the morning to catch the 7:40 metro, so that they reach their offices by 9. All of them have the same story. Broadly, all of them are the commuters of the 7:40 metro.
Sometimes we feel, that it is impossible for someone else to understand what's happening. We give petty issues so much importance, so much importance that it seems like nothing worse could have happened. That day, I was going to board the metro and the escalator was not working. Early morning no escalator. And immediately what do I say to myself ? "Oh God, that's the worst thing that can happen, taking the stairs early in the morning", and within half a minute, I am laughing at my own stupidity ( The security guard checking me that day surely thought something was fishy seeing the goofy eyed expression on my face ). I don't know whether you do this or not, but I do and I have started consciously keeping a check now :P
My point was, we feel it's impossible for someone else to understand what's happening. You know what ? We all are going through our own battles. We all are just so same. I don't know, it's like things have started making sense all of a sudden :P No, I haven't lost it and probably this clarity won't even last for long because seriously speaking it's too difficult to look for logic in this haphazard, ever-so-fast, competitive World anymore.
It's just that, there is this quote from the book P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, if you haven't read the book, I request you to read it, if nothing else then just for this quote :P I read this around six years back and loved it right then, just yesterday I re-read it and suddenly it seemed absolutely perfect. Here's what it is:
"The thing to remember is, even if we are all alone, we are together in that too."
It just brings some sense of peace to realise that you are not alone. You have someone with you, you don't have to do it all alone. Look around, there will be someone, someone fighting a battle similar to yours and if that's not the case, then everyone is together in being alone as well ;)
It's just beautiful.
