Perfect Timing, Bad Innings...

If you think this post is about sports, I'm sure you are wrong. This is once again about my festival time unreserved journey to hometown, but different...

Sometimes we may feel the things around us uncomfortable and we may have bitter experiences. But when we look back to those moments, we will smile. Thats what happened to me on 13th of this month.

I was going home for 'Pongal' holidays. I had reached the station at 17.30 itself, for my train at 19.55. I was standing in the queue - probably 30th from the first. This time I was more hopeful that I would get a window seat, but the problem that I didn't realize then, was the heavy luggage I was carrying - mostly my engineering Books. Most of the people standing in queue thought the train would arrive at 18.45 or 19.00, where they (including me) went wrong. As the Train arrived the station only at 19.40 - only fifteen minutes earlier from the departure time - the RPF could not control the crowd and we all missed the line. Carrying heavyweight I couldn't even enter the compartment - I think I tried thrice to enter into the train, but all failed. I had no choice but to stand near the compartment door. Suddenly another group of passengers started pushing me from out. I was moving, squeezed, moving and at the end I was almost in the middle of the compartment - standing. There was not even a small space to sit or stretch legs.

I started my first ever standing journey. But it gave me a chance to make some train friendships. As usual I started listening to ARR music and started sleeping - best part of standing train journey is that there is no need to hold anything for balance, of course you can sleep while standing. When I woke up, train had made it to Trichy and most of my standing companions got down to stretch their legs so did I. Again train started and we were stuffed into it. Time was fleeting... After 10 hours of standing I got a seat as the train reached Sivaganga, and I got a short time wonderful sitting journey of 45 minutes at last...

It was hard to tackle the problems while I was traveling, but it gave me more pleasure when I looked back and shared this with my friends...with a smile...

"ACCEPT THE PAIN"