Journey

Travelling by trains can be a very interesting journey. One might wonder how travelling becomes interesting. For nature lovers, travelers it is definitely and interesting activity. But for those who don’t like to travel, what about them?

Well for them, I’d recommend that they travel by Mumbai local. You get to see adventure, drama, crime & anything which is in ekta Kapoors list of soaps. As a matter of fact, one can experience a society/ a culture of its own dwelling in these local trains. There are these vendors in the trains they have a family of their own. Women’s in the train for a particular vendor and deal with them every day, they exchange the train timings with them so that they can meet each other some other day with the products that has been requested for. It’s strange but true. We have families taking charge of the work while other is not available.

I travel from Vile parle to Churchgate everyday to work… well not every day (This is a separate story altogether). Coming back to trains, earlier I would carry a book along with me to read in the trains so that I don’t get bored and especially don’t dose off. A lot of people carry reading materials with them, just to get into their personal space and disconnect from the society in which they currently exist.

It’s been a couple of days I no more carry books along that I used to read. I have developed this peculiar interest of reading people (I don’t mean getting into their minds and reading them, I mean reading people like the word in a book).Here I would love to mention about these sweet unusual encounter I’ve experienced.

There are so many different people from various strata of society with different backgrounds who travel in trains. So many topics to talk & discuss on: Love, arguments, fraud, business…just so many things. The older aunties talk about their husbands, the newlyweds talk about their in-laws, working women talk about their colleagues & bosses and the young have an endless discussion on boyfriends and love.

Well, the hot topic for this season and this blog would then be on people’s request, which will be love. Guess it’s the monsoons that make many more people talk about love & it seems to be the hot favorite! Well talking about my encounters or the effort of reading people made me overhear a conversation between a group of girls. Well they were talking about the ideal guy that a girl can find. Everyone in the group had a different image/ persona of their guy! But the most striking one was, when one of them mentioned that ‘A guy who will sing for you is the one who is will love you always’! Well that’s when I was completely interested in what they were talking about. But yet another interesting thing was that all of the other girls too agreed to this. So guys the brand new formula to patao a girl is simply sing her a song!

The other day while travelling back home from office, I was seated at the window seat cursing myself for not bringing my book, it was then a group of girls from a small house background got in the trains from Mahalaxmi and sat beside me. They were 5 of them out of which two of them were standing at the door looking at the platform on the opposite side. The rest of them called the other two, only one of them came back and exclaimed that the other one clinging to the door is drowned in sorrow. All of them at once call her, but she kept standing there until the train left the platform. Now this was a perfect scene from a Yash Raj film. What happened next? She came back to them, sat in one corner, said nothing. All the other girls trying to cheer her up. The girl did not react to anything only a few mins later it was just a tear rolling down her cheek that said it all. From the entire episode I was able to gather that the guy she had left behind at the station was Ketan. And her another friend had a boyfriend named Chetan whom, all of them were going to meet at Mahim Station. So here, there was one girl all upset because she just left her ‘mard’ (guy) behind and the other one all excited and rejoiced to meet her mard. Well it was quite a drama with lot of emotions.

Today while I was on my way to office early in the morning, a very young girl in her teens was sharing her ‘incident’ with a friend over the phone. Well the incident was as such that – how she had been longing for a guy to come and propose to her and how the guy would show his love by standing outside her class and not saying anything. She went on, on how finally she found the courage to actually write a love letter to him. But alas, there has to be a villain in every love story, she went on how she managed to get the letter to the boy. And here comes the grand entry of the Villian – the Teacher. The teacher took the letter from the boy and read it. (This reminds me of Mohabbatein – Yash Raj definitely used to travel a lot by trains I guess!)

This incident also reminds me of one of my hilarious incident in a presentation in my college. It was a long lecture and only a few people were allowed to go out and come back. It was then my guy friend had gone out and come back I wrote a chit to him cursing him for not getting food I had asked him, while he was reading it, our professor got hold of it – well this was hilarious where my professor also gave him the rotten looks for ill treating me.

Coming back to the Teacher who read the chit written by the school girl, ordered the kid to bring her parents to school to meet her. But since all of us in our childhood are smart enough to avoid getting our parents, she too somehow managed to avoid the situation but had to bring her elder brother to meet her teacher. And the gaga went on and on. But it was a happy ending anyway. The parents came to know about it later and were pretty chilled out, didn’t mind the fact that their school going girl had expressed her feelings in a letter. Well what happened to the guy is a mystery! Unfortunately it was the destiney (mine, not hers) that kept the story incomplete.