Well, I always loved journeys.. Especially the long night drives to a distant place . My sleep was the most pleasant ones when I was in a bus en route tirupathi. That's where we would go often in terms of long drives. But as we moved towards having own vehicles, going anywhere would be at our own will and wish in our own vehicles. I personally don't like the idea because the stress and tension of somebody very close to you on the driving seat isn't really helpful to enjoy a drive over the ghats. But the fun and bonding which happens within the car definitely doesn't happen in bus train or anything else for that matter. Pit stops, stopping by every hour for coffee , pulling over to enjoy a scenic view , not having to carry your luggage in and out. so going on drive by yourself is absolute fun minus the risk ( punctured tyres are included too ).
So my love for journeys and bus travels seemed to be getting some returns . I shifted to Manipal to do my MS and then it being a place 400+ kms from home town (Bangalore) was all that was needed for me to frequent a bus travel. I was all excited. Like a big gal I would travel all alone back and forth every long weekends. Could it get any better ?
My first return back to home town happened just 10 days after I shifted. I booked the ticket way earlier than people generally do. All excited I kept the ticket on my desk so that the very sight of the ticket would bring a smile on my face. I was actually excited about the destination nonetheless but travelling alone for the first time was not less exciting either.
So finally the night I boarded the bus, I was all excited informed everyone I had to that I've boarded the bus. And I trek up my sleeper platform. All excited. My first time (almost) in a sleeper . I sit down look outside the window and see how Manipal looks from a bus. Two mins into the journey. I have this strange feeling. The feeling is nothing but Nausea.. Oh COME ON !!!! I DON'T HAVE TRAVEL SICKNESS . Are u serious ? I don't want to feel sick at any given cost and ruin my stay in Bangalore. I had to do something.The only thing I could think of was to close my eyes like I just saw dirty vampire and not to open my eyes until I here the conductor calling out "BENGULURUUUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!! " . I safeguarded all my luggage. Most importantly my laptop bag which I kept so close to me like it were to be my baby :P
And then I here sounds of something trickling .. !!!! of course trickling is water.. but where ?? somewhere close to my seat ??? Are u like Serious ??? Oh come on.. this need not have to happen.. And yeah .. Considering it was pouring cats and dogs in Manipal and the western ghats as a whole.. I know I shouldn't be surprised. SO it meant that My sleeper platform was going to be damp all night ??? oh Puhleez.. !!! and it also meant (considering the nausea feeling) that I had to do something so I called the cleaner and he comes for the rescue and brings up a huge sheet of cloth (seemed pretty clean) and puts it over the platform and says"madam , now u can go ahead and sleep " .. I ask him ..hello !!! don u understand that in no time the cloth would be wet too?? So he says.. "madam, the whole bus is full I cant give u another seat either..ille adjust maadkoli" what shit.. !!! I give up and sit in one corner of the platform the whole night.. Putting this across to my parents would mean that I would not be able to travel back home too often.
Now that's about the whole first time travel in a bus alone . And that obviously meant a cramped body for the next whole day :(|
On the way back from my beautiful holiday at home, I boarded another sleeper coach . Looks like I boarded it a little too early as the bus took me for a city tour in my own city. !!!! even then I still had to keep with it.. So the actual lesson what a sleeper coach thought me was this.. I closed the curtains on both the sides (the window and the aisle side) and laid down with my eyes wide open. I looked around in the 6x2 half feet space it was all dark and it just struck to me that, It was how it is to be inside a "coffin" .. Seems funny ?? Some might even shrug away my perception and say I'm crazy. but that's how it is inside a coffin right ??
Okay now that I gotta chance to see how life inside a nice cushioned coffin would be, I realised a lotta things. Like the coffin, the sleeper coach too has very limited space. You'd be cramped inside.
=>It is dark. Light would mean U should get outta the place to see the light.
=> U 've nobody to share the space with .. (its bloody 6x2 space man !!!!!!!)
=> You've no network connectivity hence you are totally disconnected from the outside world( now that's when u go inside a coffin right ? )
=>U don't have emotions ( emotions for or about what ?? )
=> Nobody cares whether U're hungry or not ..
=>Nobody would say a hello to u..!!!! they are in their own world(coffins) !!!
=> U would not feel like stepping out... People would call anything which comes outta coffin a ghost.. and that applies to u in a bus too :P
YOU JUST CANNOT DO ANYTHING LYING DOWN INSIDE THE SLEEPER COACH => COFFIN. What ever u do.. Do it before u go there.!!! JUST DO EVERYTHING BEFORE U GET IN THERE !!!!!!
Live your life to the fullest, meet people, make frens fight with them ,dance ur way out, sing ur own crappy song, make ur own tasteless dish for once and hate urself for that. Dress up gorgeous, dress down at times too, live ur dream, sleep like a pig, but wake up all energetic, set goals, even if u don achieve them somebody else might still achieve it for u :P Set an example.. good or bad.. laugh at others.. all important.. laugh at yourself..( no never do it.. u are gr8 to urslef at least ) . Enact in front of the mirror... Party hard.. even if its in ur own room.. Cry out.. and call it mood swings :P fall ill and enjoy the attention from the loved one.. Show them the same care when they are ill. Watch the crappiest movie and take the best movie as ur inspiration(and forget about it the very next day) . Regret,repent,rebel,remember,forget,love,like,hate,feel,hurt,get hurt, fall,climb up,walk ,read,write,talk,listen,eat,drink,watch do everything a living is blessed to do because EVEN GOD IS NOT BLESSED ENOUGH TO LIVE A LIFE LIKE YOU DO !!!. He is just MONOTONOUS writing our destiny. The fun of living through our destiny is for us blessed souls. Love your life.. Its only Until u are restricted to a 6x2 space . That's not the place you would want to repent not to have lived a life. Go ahead and DIVE INTO LIFE :) (SHIT WHAT DURGAMBA TRAVELS DID TO ME MAN !!!!)
So my love for journeys and bus travels seemed to be getting some returns . I shifted to Manipal to do my MS and then it being a place 400+ kms from home town (Bangalore) was all that was needed for me to frequent a bus travel. I was all excited. Like a big gal I would travel all alone back and forth every long weekends. Could it get any better ?
My first return back to home town happened just 10 days after I shifted. I booked the ticket way earlier than people generally do. All excited I kept the ticket on my desk so that the very sight of the ticket would bring a smile on my face. I was actually excited about the destination nonetheless but travelling alone for the first time was not less exciting either.
So finally the night I boarded the bus, I was all excited informed everyone I had to that I've boarded the bus. And I trek up my sleeper platform. All excited. My first time (almost) in a sleeper . I sit down look outside the window and see how Manipal looks from a bus. Two mins into the journey. I have this strange feeling. The feeling is nothing but Nausea.. Oh COME ON !!!! I DON'T HAVE TRAVEL SICKNESS . Are u serious ? I don't want to feel sick at any given cost and ruin my stay in Bangalore. I had to do something.The only thing I could think of was to close my eyes like I just saw dirty vampire and not to open my eyes until I here the conductor calling out "BENGULURUUUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!! " . I safeguarded all my luggage. Most importantly my laptop bag which I kept so close to me like it were to be my baby :P
And then I here sounds of something trickling .. !!!! of course trickling is water.. but where ?? somewhere close to my seat ??? Are u like Serious ??? Oh come on.. this need not have to happen.. And yeah .. Considering it was pouring cats and dogs in Manipal and the western ghats as a whole.. I know I shouldn't be surprised. SO it meant that My sleeper platform was going to be damp all night ??? oh Puhleez.. !!! and it also meant (considering the nausea feeling) that I had to do something so I called the cleaner and he comes for the rescue and brings up a huge sheet of cloth (seemed pretty clean) and puts it over the platform and says"madam , now u can go ahead and sleep " .. I ask him ..hello !!! don u understand that in no time the cloth would be wet too?? So he says.. "madam, the whole bus is full I cant give u another seat either..ille adjust maadkoli" what shit.. !!! I give up and sit in one corner of the platform the whole night.. Putting this across to my parents would mean that I would not be able to travel back home too often.
Now that's about the whole first time travel in a bus alone . And that obviously meant a cramped body for the next whole day :(|
On the way back from my beautiful holiday at home, I boarded another sleeper coach . Looks like I boarded it a little too early as the bus took me for a city tour in my own city. !!!! even then I still had to keep with it.. So the actual lesson what a sleeper coach thought me was this.. I closed the curtains on both the sides (the window and the aisle side) and laid down with my eyes wide open. I looked around in the 6x2 half feet space it was all dark and it just struck to me that, It was how it is to be inside a "coffin" .. Seems funny ?? Some might even shrug away my perception and say I'm crazy. but that's how it is inside a coffin right ??
Okay now that I gotta chance to see how life inside a nice cushioned coffin would be, I realised a lotta things. Like the coffin, the sleeper coach too has very limited space. You'd be cramped inside.
=>It is dark. Light would mean U should get outta the place to see the light.
=> U 've nobody to share the space with .. (its bloody 6x2 space man !!!!!!!)
=> You've no network connectivity hence you are totally disconnected from the outside world( now that's when u go inside a coffin right ? )
=>U don't have emotions ( emotions for or about what ?? )
=> Nobody cares whether U're hungry or not ..
=>Nobody would say a hello to u..!!!! they are in their own world(coffins) !!!
=> U would not feel like stepping out... People would call anything which comes outta coffin a ghost.. and that applies to u in a bus too :P
YOU JUST CANNOT DO ANYTHING LYING DOWN INSIDE THE SLEEPER COACH => COFFIN. What ever u do.. Do it before u go there.!!! JUST DO EVERYTHING BEFORE U GET IN THERE !!!!!!
Live your life to the fullest, meet people, make frens fight with them ,dance ur way out, sing ur own crappy song, make ur own tasteless dish for once and hate urself for that. Dress up gorgeous, dress down at times too, live ur dream, sleep like a pig, but wake up all energetic, set goals, even if u don achieve them somebody else might still achieve it for u :P Set an example.. good or bad.. laugh at others.. all important.. laugh at yourself..( no never do it.. u are gr8 to urslef at least ) . Enact in front of the mirror... Party hard.. even if its in ur own room.. Cry out.. and call it mood swings :P fall ill and enjoy the attention from the loved one.. Show them the same care when they are ill. Watch the crappiest movie and take the best movie as ur inspiration(and forget about it the very next day) . Regret,repent,rebel,remember,forget,love,like,hate,feel,hurt,get hurt, fall,climb up,walk ,read,write,talk,listen,eat,drink,watch do everything a living is blessed to do because EVEN GOD IS NOT BLESSED ENOUGH TO LIVE A LIFE LIKE YOU DO !!!. He is just MONOTONOUS writing our destiny. The fun of living through our destiny is for us blessed souls. Love your life.. Its only Until u are restricted to a 6x2 space . That's not the place you would want to repent not to have lived a life. Go ahead and DIVE INTO LIFE :) (SHIT WHAT DURGAMBA TRAVELS DID TO ME MAN !!!!)
