Imagine coming back home after a usual day. You get into your room, drop your bag, change and just sit, idle with having no idea about what to do next. Suddenly, you feel like going for a walk, probably just to enjoy the cold breeze gushing outside.
So you grab your earphones and phone and set out. You set your playlist on shuffle and start walking aimlessly trying to relate to the songs playing, until you start hearing car horns. You quickly remove your earphones thinking that maybe in your aimless walk, you are blocking the way for someone else. But that’s not the case here. Apparently the car horns are for someone who is desperately trying turn their car around but instead, happen to block the road for other cars.
One thing we should all learn is, honking is not going get us anywhere sooner. Half the road problems in India would probably disappear if we learn and apply this one simple thing.
So now there’s this long queue of cars, honking together, waiting for that one car to move. Promptly you start walking towards that car, while being enviously stared upon by all these drivers because you are moving and they are not!
You reach the car, the cause of all the havoc and you see someone. Someone astonishingly pretty. But that pretty little someone is nervously crying, because nothing’s going her way.. Literally!
Very hesitantly you approach this someone, you stammer more than the usual, and you offer to help but in that moment you become nervous yourself. Now come on, a crying girl will make anyone nervous. Suddenly in that cold breeze, you start sweating but now you have already taken the first few steps and its too late to move back, so you somehow utter the words “Hey, would you mind shifting to the other seat while I just make way for these idiots to pass by?” followed by a smile. A brainless one I presume.
At this moment you feel proud that you know the language and also know how to drive. But suddenly, that face lifts up and stares you in the eye, and you say to yourself, “What have I done!!”. That moment is then disrupted by another set of honking, and this time you are thankful for it. The pretty face doesn’t say a word but picks herself up to get to the other seat.
You quickly get in, start the car, make a few turns and get the car to the side just to make way for the morons. Once the whole thing clears up, you again put it back into gear and turn it to the direction it was intended to be in. You finally save the Damsel in distress!
Now that you have done your job, you open the door and lift your butt to get out of the car when suddenly a sweet voice approaches your ears, “Could you please drive the car till my place, I don’t think I would be able to do it myself”. You gladly oblige, smiling away form the inside knowing that you had nothing else to do anyway!
Now you are a chauffeur for someone you don’t even know, so you try to start a conversation while getting directions from the lady sitting next to you and before you know it, you have reached the destination where you see a huge bulky man waiting anxiously and you instantly know that, that is the father!.
You stop and park the car as you see the damsel explaining the scenario to this person and also how YOU got into the picture.
Now, the next thing you know, you get invited in for a cup of tea. As you walk in with these stranger, you start cursing yourself for being dressed the way you were but continue to walk as there was nothing that could be done now.
The tea helps you to get to know these people a little more, swiftly the exchange of number take place and you reluctantly take their leave and start walking home.
You have your earphones plugged in again, but non of the lyrics get past your eardrums. You are still lost about the incident that just took place. You wonder if this was a plot of some kind.
Unknowingly you reach your destination, enter your room and drop on your bed, lost! When suddenly you are welcomed by a text. “Hello!”
Metanoia. 