Last Friday I travelled to Chennai by bus. As usual I went to the bus stand and to my surprise there wasn’t a single Chennai bus around which surprised me a bit. On one end of the depot I saw a bus marked as going to Chennai. I was happy and ran towards the bus because the bus was about to leave the depot. Somehow I managed to board the bus. There was a guy in his late forties standing on the path. He was the conductor of the bus and I asked him as to whether there are unoccupied seats available for which he replied in a rude manner. I was not that happy with him for the way he replied to me and to some other people as well. So I said I am getting down. Then he changed his tone completely and gave me a seat number asking me to occupy that. I went and sat in that seat and I started observing him. He was loud, rude and at times very frank about his opinion. This formed a bad opinion about him in my mind though frankly speaking it doesn’t matter to him as to what I think about him. For some strange reason I did not feel sleepy that whole night and since I was in the first row of the bus I noticed that the conductor was not sleeping the entire journey and he made sure that he kept on chatting with the guy. He made sure that the driver was feeling comfortable. He was discharging his duties sincerely though may not be in a way others would approve of. This incident made me think. Appearances are often deceptive. I know a lot of people saying that I m a perfect example for that … But in most of the situations it is only based on first appearance/meeting that we form a opinion about a person. How great it would be in a relationship if we can defer forming opinions about a person whom we meet till we get to know more about a person? Above all how great it would be if we don’t have any expectations from a relationship and manage to relish every moment of the time we get to spend with people?
This is something which we need to ponder or atleast I need to ponder…….
Best of All Times
17 years ago
2 comments:
Nice thought! :)
But what is life without any expectations tell me?
Thanks for your comments dude.To me, I can dream what is all expected from a person but I cannot expect something from a person because when I dream I m very well aware that whatever I picturise need not happen in reality whereas thats not the case when I expect and moreover by that way I dont get dejected or disappointed.
But to be frank this is easier said than done ;)
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