The Lightning Jolt

Ah! Well we had the worst power grid failure in the world just recently. And if you read about it anywhere you must have gotten the stats. But I'll tell you what happened with me.

Day 1- I don't go to college!!

Day 2- I go. BUT....!!!

Well, it seemed like the worst had struck us. I was with my friend and we were going to take a metro train from a station near college to get back home. Unaware of what awaited us, we were having a very informative conversation on Model United Nations and how agendas discussed in such conference are of utter importance to every citizen of this country and this world.

I think I’d want to say that the UNIVERSE HAS ONE HELLUVA HUMOR cuz when we reached the station, we found it closed. The trains were not working. We were bothered but we decided we would take an auto to a nearby station which would be working.  We reached there only to find that that station was also shut.

(And this is exactly what the metro station looked like when we reached there! Imagine when we land there and everybody stared at our faces thinking 'here come two more!' and we're told that it's shut!)

We both let out a laugh! We were stuck and there was no way back home as we knew it. Panic situation as we would call it was laughable for us because we were in this together (THANK GOD!) and we both were clueless. Thanking mobile phones for existing, we called people who we thought could help us in this situation. Calls to our family went later, once we set out to take a bus! By the way- I have rarely ever taken a bus in my life. The count goes up till 10 at the max. And I am 18! And I have never taken the bus alone or with a friend, it’s always been somebody in family.

We saw buses passing by and I was very uncomfortable with the kind of stuffed population I saw in them. I doubt if there was space to breathe too! And then i realized that we're going to be a part of one of those kinds of buses!

(ok no this is just an exaggerated image. but to be real honest, the alarm that you just experienced with this one was just what i felt being right there! You should probably stuff the people sitting on the roof of the bus inside. maybe that shall explain what the bus looked like! Thank God, the bus had a better infrastructure and look than this one!)

Then, if that wasn't all, i got water splashed all over my pants so it looked like i had peed in them! It was just the LIMIT!

Then a blessed friend told me that the metro had started working and so we went back to the station and i travelled all the way with my wet pants back home!

Hallelujah! The city had never seemed to welcoming and beautiful to me before! And my house probably never so cozy. I changed the minute i got home and crashed on my bed to take refuge from the reality that had just passed!

What a day! (And honestly, i could say that as many times you want me to!)

It all starts simply. You learn to tie your shoes, recite your ABCs and skip count by 2. Then it starts getting more complicated.

This is something I found on tinybuddha.com

"You learn that sometimes people hurt you. That even if you plan as best as you can, the future can sometimes surprise you. That the things you expect will make you happy sometimes fall horribly short.

You start collecting ideas about how the world works and how you should operate within it- what to do, who to trust. Then just when you think you have it all figured out, your world cracks open and reminds you there's still so much to learn.

People often debate the meaning of life and how we should live it, but i think most agree that life's about learning. It's about about being a little wiser and more aware than yesterday, and using that wisdom to make the world a better place than you found it.

We all have the potential within us. We're all students and teachers, vulnerable and powerful- and that's a beautiful thing. The most influential people in the world have both the courage to inspire and the humility to be inspired."

Consider this:

People will walk in and out of your life as per their own conveniences. It hurts to realise that some people will never be a regular part of your life ever again. There will just be that memory. But mostly, you will realise that none of this will let you be angry forever (You may not ever forgive OR forget but you'll get over it if not through it :P Like I did). You are just left hoping that there's just a tiny reminder that they get in their head on what happened between you and them whenever they see you and maybe even feel sad about it just like you did once!

And i never say it's ok until it really is, so i mean it when i write it here!

Let go and let in! It's OK!! :)