I was waiting for my bus as usual at the bus stop. The bus which I wait for is pretty fast and very difficult to catch hold of. Hence I need to consistently keep my eyes fixed on the forthcoming buses and the moment I see my bus, I need to waive my hand to make it stop. It's an airport bus and it wont stop unless u waive your hand. So, today as usual i went a step forward to waive my hand but unfortunately the bus was too fast today to be stopped. It went away. But suddenly I turned to my right and saw a bus coming towards me and it was in good speed. It was almost close to me and my reflex pushed my body and made me run. I ran forward and stopped since another bus was already coming that way but thankfully at a damn slow speed. I stopped and turned behind and saw that the bus which I was trying to escape almost went by my side with an inch's gap.
I froze for a moment coz everything happened so fast that my mind was trying to realize what happened. I first tried to figure out whose mistake it was..mine or the bus driver's. Actually, I was standing on the bus stop platform and already there were two buses standing at the stop. But this fast bus snooped in the gap between the bus stop and the standing buses, and that too, with such a speed. So the only mistake on my side was that I was not careful.
I had nothing running in my mind apart from this incident. I got into another bus and i crossed half the distance, but still my heart was not ready to calm down and it went on beating at the fastest rate it could. I tried diverting my mind by watching out of the window and I started listening to the Ghajini song 'kaise mujhe tu mil gayi'. On the way I noticed an army training camp, and I could see all soldiers lined up in 'saavdhan' posture. Immediately I felt, they are the ones who constantly put their life in danger and how many heart pounding incidents they would have to undergo almost every day. And the feeling which emerged in me for them got intensified coz of Shreya Ghoshal's entry in that song. The humming she starts in that song and me noticing them were so simultaneous that I felt that filmy emotion. Then did my heart get bit convinced and i could console myself.
We never realize things until it happens to us!
