Traveling

Everyone, I mean literally everyone has had the need to travel. It’s become a part and parcel of life. To travel is such a wonderful thing. Every day is a new experience.

        I personally hated traveling from the beginning. But fate wanted me to travel. So now I have to travel in a day for almost 3 hours. Out of 24 hours of my day, I spend 3 hours for traveling…

        I live in Mumbai suburbs and I travel all the way to the southern tip of Mumbai. Obviously, I have to travel by train, and each day I get to see various incidents, that it just makes my day… or sometimes ruin it!

        In Mumbai, a city of overcrowded people, a city where you can get everything and anything, nobody knows nobody and everybody is a stranger. Let me phrase it rightly nobody cares about anybody! They all live their own small world… and there is little that you can do to change that fact.

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       I would like to share one of my bad experience of traveling. It was the day of my examinations; First of all I was late, second of all the train was late and above all I didn’t study at all! I was really tensed, it was 9:45 and the train was expected to reach at 9:35 at Andheri station. Apart from this it was a week day and so there were like million people standing on the platform to catch a Churchgate fast. I had the feeling that someone would get knocked off from the platform if. Thankfully it didn’t happen. I saw from a distance that the train arrived, but to my shock the train was already crowded. I said to myself I have to get into this train by hook or crook even if I have to climb on top of the train too (Certainly I couldn't do that). The train didn’t even stop and there were people jumping out. It came to a halt and few people came out. I took the chance and I swooped right inside the compartment. In a minute, One by one the train got so full that, I thought ill get thrown off right from the other side. I held on to the handle for dear life, praying that I may reach on time for my test. The train was so crowded that there wasn’t even space left to stand properly. My one leg was not even touching the ground; I kept that leg on top of my other leg. Half the people didn’t even get in. And the train started moving; I said to myself it’ll be over soon enough, no big deal. It was a fast train. So at least I’ll reach there a bit sooner. The local trains in Mumbai shudder a lot. I mean they rapidly rock side by side. When the train reached it's top speed the train literally started swinging left and right. I was literally bounced back and forth like a ping pong ball. At that moment I felt this is the end. I won't survive this. I literally started singing the hymn ‘I surrender’ in my mind. And right after, I reached Dadar and oh my, what relief. The whole crowd got down and the train got almost empty. I just collapsed in one of the seats. I was like alas it is over. But then it struck to me like a lightning bolt, EXAMS! It’s not over yet. It was 10:25 when I reached the station. It is like a 15 minutes walk to college and my exam starts at 10:30. At that moment I didn’t think of anything else. I just ran like my life depended on it. I reached the college and heard the bell ringing. “I can make it. I can make it!” I kept saying to myself. I reached my examination hall. The supervisor gave a sharp look at me and said, “Why are you late?” I replied, “I just had a rough day!”