The other day when I was taking my mom from hospital back to home, in this auto-rickshaw, mid noon, I had a really rough time with the auto driver. I had been already going though a rough patch in life - having been recently met with an accident and most of the family members ailing.I was dealing with the downs of life, waiting patiently for the bad time to pass on, but, when the auto rickshaw driver started blabbing complaints and demanding more money because we were living in a street and not on the main road, the limits to my patience burst and I ended up in this heated argument with him which left me feeling bitter about the infrastructure around us, the law-and-order and the kind of people that we have to deal with.
Days later, when me and hubby were headed for a place somewhere in Vijayanagar, Bangalore for
some work, we ended up in this small street that was heading straight to the cattle barn, with no side streets and reversing the car looked like a nightmare because half of the population from the houses - children and old alike - was on the street itself (thanks to the Google map and some people who would confidently guide you even if they themselves have no idea what you are looking for). We were not sure what to do next. Gathering courage, we started reversing the vehicle at a very very small pace, doing our best not to hurt anyone in the process. Slowly, the residents started helping us out, they started managing their children and gathering other stuffs like the drying spices and water buckets that they had laid out on the road while going through their daily chore. They also started guiding us to help make the reversing process smoother. There was this one really great guy who looked like a cab driver residing there, who took extra efforts to help us out of the nightmarish ordeal in that street. The incidence, although draining and tiring, filled my heart with hope and happiness - on finding so much friendliness and supportive attitude in the people out there. So, the good things do still exist :)
When I started writing this post, I just felt like putting the two incidences together, maybe to remind myself that there are both sides to life, that there are things that are good here and there are things that are bad. I hope we slowly improve upon things that are bad, and the experience of our next generation would be better than what it has been so far for us...
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