Monday, February 20, 2012

A TRAIN waited for me!

By Jerin Jacob

You must have heard or have experienced of a taxi cab waiting for you or a bus or a friend waiting for you. Have you ever had an experience of a train waiting for you? I do!

The story goes this way…
         

        Other day on a weekend, I was getting ready to travel to my home town and I preferred traveling on ‘the hero’ of this shot story – a train. May be because of the weekend, I woke up little late and had to rush to catch up an early morning train. To reach the railway station, I had to catch up a bus but I missed the first bus even-though I had a close encounter with it – (In my country public-transportation is more common by the way).

        If bus driver had seen me and waited for me for a while,  I would have got the bus and would have got another topic to write “A bus waited for me!” and I wonder that wouldn’t be that interesting to write about. { This part of the Life-journey is called keep enjoying even if you lose something in between! }

              After waiting a “very long” couple of minutes, I got the second bus and reached at some where close to the railway station. I could only land around #200 meters away from the railway station as there were no direct bus routes. I can see far away the train had arrived and would departure very soon.

       I had two choices - I could run or could hire an Autorikshaw – (In my country this beautiful vehicle is also very common) to reach there as fast as possible. If I ran, I would definitely end up missing the train and losing some calories so running was a bad choice.

        Fortunately I found one Autorikshaw coming from the opposite direction where I wanted to go. But the driver understood the situation and applied the break immediately and skidded the vehicle as if he was being filmed for a Hollywood movie. He screamed “Come on in, we will catch the train sir…”.      { This part of the Life-journey is called not losing hope and taking inspired action }

             When the driver stopped near a short cut to the railway station. I handed him the traveling wage and jumped off the Autorikshaw and ran towards the railway track. “Don’t get me wrong, I was not heading to a suicide attempt neither was expecting of my lover’s hand to hold me from the train just like some Bollywood films”.

       When I ran close to the train, its engine had started and got moving little faster. People who were walking aside the road to the railway track, were watching me. They screamed for me to jump in and get into the train - (Hey, I am not over dramatizing it). People did encourage me so, at the same time one person from the other side of the railway track kept saying. “Don’t do it, don’t do it, you will not make it”. Even-though I avoided his discouragement my logic said I can’t make it as I had big baggage too with me.

Finally I quit trying. { This part of the Life-journey is called losing opportunity by thinking about security and comfort }

       After the disappointing attempt, I gave a thanking smile to the Autorikshaw driver and the people who encouraged me. I looked down for no reason but kept smiling as I walked to the railway station. The train went on moving aside me. { This part of the Life-journey is called Keep feeling good & trust in the divine power! } 

                  When I took two or three steps - to my surprise, the train rather than getting up the speed, it is slowing down and was almost stopped. My fans (hope I could call them so) started screaming again “Dude! Get in now at-least!”.

          When I was jumping in to one of the train compartment, I could see a man far from the Engine room was making sure I am safely in. Then the train slowly regained its speed. (May be the train driver had seen me “trying to get in” since I was running towards the train from the engine side earlier).

        When I delightfully got in, I saw a glimpse of the people who supported me – they had a smile of relief. But I forgot to look for that single person who discouraged me – I guessed, his eyes must have become bull’s eye because of disbelief as I got into the train very effortlessly which he might have thought impossible. { This part of the Life-journey is called believing in the destination and keep moving forward without bothering about discouragement or encouragement }

                       
             Yes that is how I got into the train. All those efforts went worth. I tell you, traveling through God’s own country in a train, sitting on a “side seat” is the most romantic thing you can ever have. { This part of the Life-journey is called exploring new possibilities and enjoying the journey at the fullest! }





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