Chapter 1
A morning
not sure if it was a fine one though, I woke up grumbling about almost
everything on earth. I had not realized why I was grumbling until an hour
later. It was these days; I woke up in the mid nights and had not slept for the
next 3 hours for almost over a week. I had no clue why, no no, not the age
factor nor I was falling for Gravity :P
In a hurry
to catch the office bus, I just dressed up and ran out of the house, without
wishing the landlord “Good Morning Thatha” in a nicer way, I had just uttered
the words and ran until he could he even lift his head up and respond back from
his busy newspaper reading.
It’s only
after 5-6 houses, I see a man and his wife in their late 50’s everyday rushing
to work at the same time when I start home, looking at both of them I stop
grumbling only to realize that they are aged enough to sit at home but they
happily go working, and I am not even half of their age. I see a lady making a
hair-do for her school going girl in her balcony, and it’s a routine I wave at
her girl every morning in whatever hurry I am. I see a Rottweiler and he is ugly enough to ignore
his barks. I also see a little kid who just joined kindergarten, I have seen
him yell out from his balcony “Akka Hi” for past 2 years and he is too sweet
enough for a tight hug.
6 minutes
of walk every morning gives me enough acceptance in this World. I reached my
bus-stop well before time, to see other co-travelers were yet to arrive. Well, doesn’t
even make much difference as I hardly talk to anyone of them; because I miss my
regular bus buddy. There comes 73, No! I don’t like the people and I let it go;
43, oh yeah! Same story. I waited until 44
arrived.
<Route #
44 is the regular bus I take every morning to work. Many from my bus stop come
in it including a recently wedded couple (to be introduced as important
characters) >
I boarded
the Bus and managed to reach the last seat which is but obvious my favorite
place to sit. I had no window seat there so I settled for last but second seat.
I barely had managed to sit, there came Aditi and sat next to
me. I was about to change the FM station
and Aditi’s husband came running and caught the bus in the first signal. When
he came in, there were only 2 seats vacant in the last row, seats next to the
people sitting in the window side on either side. Now, the two started some
sign language, you know :P they would
obviously want to sit next to each other and there was no doubt about it.
Now all
this put me into a lot of discomfort. I decided to let the husband sit next to
Aditi. I came to the last row to find “A new co-traveler” and a usual lady in
the last seat. I chose to sit next to the lady, where the Sun was peeping in
hot and bright. Well I had no choice but to sit there all the way to Office. I
started to worry as the hands would be tanned for the next one hour which I couldn’t
afford but then I managed to. And I reached my office.
