January 17, 2014

The incident.

Every other day there are thousands of 'women' and 'men' travelling by the Mumbai Local trains, up and down, day and night. I particularly mention women and men separately because it's not the same for both the genders.

So this last week I was, as usual, going home from work and walking my way through those over crowded bridges connecting platforms in the "peak hours". Suddenly, I found a man too old to be called young, trying to harass a girl walking beside me. She was hardly fifteen. I could sense it after seeing her getting uncomfortable and putting her bag in every way she could protect herself from that man. I was noticing it all and I'm very sure there were others too, watching it all and still as silent as 'humans' always are.
The way he was trying to touch her was horrible. I broke my anger and shouted at him, "uncle, khud ko control karo nahi toh gaand pe laat padegi". I'm glad a few men came ahead and started to beat him up. As soon as we reached the last stair, there was police. Phew! We complained them about him and then he was all theirs. I'm also glad the police didn't say,"FIR likhwana padega madam. Hum isey kuch nahi kar sakte abhi." There was a past incident where this actually happened and I expected this again but glad it didn't. The man was under their custody after getting beaten up by the public.
All my eyes were happy to see is that girl coming to me with a smile and thanking me and in reply I told her to make a start if something like this happens again. The rest will be taken over by the crowd of real men. She smiled back.

Imaginations.

Imaginations can be as good as real and as bad as a disaster. They can turn life into a bliss or make it downright difficult. The better the imagination, the more beautiful its effects. The horrible the imagination, the more horrifying its effects. The point is we can control it. The point is we know how to control it. The point is we control it. The point is we decide how good or bad, beautiful or dangerous, bliss or disaster they are or can be. However, we instead choose to not use this superpower and imagine what others imagine who are mostly negative at their par. Sad but true. The breathtaking fact is good imaginations lead to positive thinking which automatically turn into a bright reality while the bad ones, their exact opposite. We are leading ourselves and our imaginations. One must not forget that. Keep imagining!