'Shreya'

Do you know what's exhausting?
 Exams!


Do you know what's even more exhausting?
 Back to back exams!


I had my family law's exam the other day and it went surprisingly well. Don't you worry, I won't be blabbering about stupid exams. Anyhow, Something happened that day that touched my heart, again, surprisingly. :P


It started as any other normal exam day. Woke up. Freshened up. Revised. Left for college. Revised. Gave the exam. Cribbed about the paper as the worry for the next exam crept in.. Anyway, left college with my friend at around one thirty.


Now, everything is normal till now. He drops me at the bus stop and I take an E-rickshaw thingy which looks something like this->

There are 4 people in the ricky apart from the driver, moi, a 60 something lady sitting on my right, a lady in her early thirties with her 10 year old daughter sitting across us. Again, everything is in routine, the regular ruckus, the regular traffic, the regualr indifference. There is a considerable distance between our vehicle and another. But something happened, something that probably shouldn't have, something that was probably meant to be. Much to the driver's dismay, his amazingly well (Dhoom 3 sorts :P) driving skills ditched him when a bike appeared out of nowhere and collided with our vehicle. Why, you ask? Because it's India, and because it had to appear out of nowhere and it had to collide with our vehicle.


The bike swerved out of control and the biker's hand got squished between the ricky and bike's handle and it started bleeding a beautiful shade of red (yes, it was a 'beautiful' shade of red). Everything stopped for a second. I couldn't feel my heartbeat for a moment. I was working on my thoughts and letting the shade of the blood sink into my eyes and the thoughts of whatever it was that had just happened sink into my heart. And in a fraction of a second, as expected, all hell broke loose. There was chaos and people started shouting at that man and at each other [ Because, it's India and it's everyone's fault except your own]. This whole thing happened and was in the direct line of sight of the 10 year old girl  who immediately started bawling. Everyone tried to calm her down, to see where she was hurt.( All this while, I was 'hearing' random metal songs that my phone was popping and with every beat of the drum, I regained consciousness and started contemplating the scene that was being played right in front of my eyes )


Anyway, the little girl wasn't hurt AT ALL. She was crying because the man had gotten hurt! OH YES! Can you actually believe that!?


It was the raw emotion on the girl's face as she kept going on and on about the man being hurt that moved me. Because, I, probably like many others, have forgotten what compassion is truly like. That kid's innocence actually got me all misty eyed [a rarity] and I spent the next fifteen minutes trying to cheer that kid up by making random faces, showing her funny pictures and what not. And watching that smile lighten up Shreya's face just made me realize how you feel sometimes that your existence actually has an objective and that those objectives are floating all around us, like bubbles, just waiting for us to come into their way so that they can burst themselves into our faces.

On a completely random note, my blog post '10 ways to Annoy People' got featured in 'Awkward Panda', a blog by my dear friend. Check it out!
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P.s. Went to the market today while coming back I smiled at a 8 year old girl [ I swear I am NOT a pedo] and her response is 'Didi, aap bohot acche lag rahe ho'(Didi, you are looking good) :D
Bloody made my evening.