So what...

Sunday is the festival day of the week, says who? Says, Noel.

On Sundays I wear the hat of a part time English teacher. Last Sunday, I boarded the 9:58 train destined to Churchgate, I was standing on the foot board of the last first class compartment just then a bunch of people got into the compartment, and the train took off. Once into the compartment they quickly made sure that the whole group was in. The patriarchal figure did the head count, before he would count the last head he realized that they were in a we-have-a-situation kind of a situation.

Lets look a at this episode in a  video clip : a group of naive masonry workers, new to the city, gets in to the compartment closest to the stairways all in a hurry and then... realization knocks hard and catches you unaware. Traveling first class with second class ticket ! What do we do if we are caught ? I saw all this happening but there was hardly any time to throw a caution at them; including the woman and the baby, they were 10 of them in all getting into train that was about to depart, anything said or done would be like flashing torch lights of panic on them.

While realization hovered over three men and woman in the group, the rest were unbothered. When the old man with an oops tonality said, "this is a special compartment," to which one of the boys from the group said, "So..."

Seriously, when there is so much of life happening to us, that noise, that fear, that loss, that pain and all that failing and falling... So What?

I read this post by one of my students, "In life, go straight and TURN right," I realized after turning right there was nothing *left*.

Many times how much ever you play by the rules, you still don't get there. So get rid of that rule book, and play by your gut, seriously, wtf.

I was sure that the masonary folks woudnt meet the ticket checker while moving to the next compartment.

I believe, So what? and why not? Are the two questions that have given us revolutionary leaders and outliers.

"Be yourself" attitude is not applicable for all, you either know it or you don't. At times, just shut up and listen, all the answers lie within, what you are looking out for is to get confused.