In Transit

‘Kaam Chalu’….or ‘Work in progress’ was written on the diversion created by the Reliance Metro work going on in Mumbai. I bet this phrase was not just for the Metro, but for almost all my friends….and yes, me too.

Two years after engineering and everyone around is ‘In Transit’ mode. Moving towards the ‘One Big Break’ with more urgency than ever before; bearing all the troubles, the confusion, the chaos to see a better tomorrow. It was not the city which I left a couple of years ago. Probably when the Metro would come up a couple of years later, it would be a little more comfortable, but people have suffered a lot for this comfort. Nevertheless, building the Metro was essential. 

Like Will Smith will put it forward as ‘This little part of my life is called struggle’. But the best part of the city is that it never complains. Never about the traffic, the crowd, the troubles. These things are always going to be there. Life goes on. There are always ways of going about things. Banning the ‘Hookah’ does not stop the people from having it, or the restaurants from serving it. 

When I look at most of the friends I have, I feel the same thing. They are in transit, just like me, but that hasn’t changed a lot of things. They are still the same as I knew them. Just a little adjusted to let go the little curved balls that life has thrown at them. When life throws curved balls, these people never asked ‘Why?’

It feels nice. Life will always be in transit. Are you the person who honks at the traffic when a new flyover is being constructed or are you the one who blasts music in the car without caring much about the traffic makes a difference.