Do You Mind?!

The other day I was going home in a rickshaw with a friend and at one time when we stopped at the signal, a man on a bike came up to the rickshaw wala and what followed was very absurd. The man on bike started off by saying,

"Piaray bhai, do you get money for putting that poster up on your vehicle or have you done it on your own?"

Now let me tell you here that the said poster was of one of the two popular competitors involved in the ongoing campaigns for the position of the next Prime Minister. And so the rickshaw wala says that he got Rs. 200 for it. And then Mr. Bike said,

"Why did you do something like that for only Rs. 200? You can go on selling your vehicle for a thing like that? I  don't know why people do that."

I looked at my friend and I had an expression that said "What the fuck!?" From what he said, it was clear that he was a supporter of the other party and also that the rickshaw wala didn't care for all this world's worth who asked him to put some poster up as long as he could get a few bucks for a harmless thing like that. That was the most absurd thing that Mr. Bike did. I mean, degrading some random person on the road when he clearly did not care about it? Do we live in a free country or what! It is fine when you are thrusting your personal views  on the people in your circle but poking strangers on the road? If you do not like a certain thing you see on a road, what right do you have to point it out? It is at this time when you want to say, 'Do You Mind?! I'm living a free life here!'

Another day a few weeks back, I was going on a rickshaw and was biting the skin around my nails. "You shouldn't bite nails you know, that's a bad habit." Yes, that was the rickshaw wala. First, that is pathetic why he was looking at the back from the mirror. Second, 'Do You Mind?! I will fucking do whatever I want. Who are you to point me out?

If you are thinking I'm being like this because I'm discriminating the rickshaw wala, you're wrong and I'm not being harsh in saying that people should mind their own business. He doesn't have the right to point out an unknown girl and I don't have to listen to some unknown person. Creepy!

Realizations Lately

I have been delaying this for a year now. Found it in my archives and I felt sadness.   

Do you ever wonder how transient the life of a human being is? That everything comes to an end sooner or later? That things and situations and events and people never remain the same? From the world history to our own significant/insignificant lives, countless examples can be found. Though the change you are going towards might prove fruitful for you but the pain of passing through the change is what makes everything unsure. Maybe ‘pain’ is a big word for most of the changes in life but there is something, reluctance, a fear, what-ifs etc.

Until now I think this is good, that maybe, just maybe, it will last. But then there are days when I think that there can be a hundred things which can happen to end this. A hundred possibilities. And who could stop them from happening and leaving me at the same place where I was before.

Do you ever wonder how easy or different human beings would be if there was no existence of feelings and emotions? I mean, everywhere we see, everything works on feelings and emotions. The thing that makes it difficult is the fact that we have to use the right ones at the right time and if not, that is where heartbreaks and low morale comes up, don’t you think?