Friday, June 23, 2006

Home's where .................

It hadn't been the most smoothest of transitions. Sure he had welcomed landing his first job but tinged the usual withdrawal symptoms of leaving a place he had known for over 2 years coupled with being thrust into the harsh city life of a new place, a sea change from the quiet town he had lived in. The job had been great, he just hated the drive he had to take to and back from it. The traffic was rough, with people honking away to glory running on some budgeted honks for a day plan. People were always rushing trying to take the shortest paths, didn't matter if it was over you rather than by you. He never liked doing things he didn't enjoy and may be that was one of the reasons why the prospect of this drive twice a day didn't immensely enthuse him everytime. Today was another such day as he got into his new car to get back home from work. He did ok till he ran into some serious traffic on the main highway. An SUV cut him off without indicating and he barely braked in time letting off an infuriated honk that drowned his favorite unmentionables. He knew it was going to be a loong ride home and he turned his attention to his happy place turning up the music. He was kinda lost as he came over a steep incline when he noticed the car in front had pulled up quite sharply. Not another accident he moaned to himself realizing that his misery had just worsened down to a crawl back home on this road. But he realized it wasn't a careless driver jumping lanes or a distracted cellphone user that had caused the slowdown as he came over the hill. His eyes were hit by the most crisp and golden rays of the sun he had seen for a long long time and almost every car around him grinded to a stop trying to adjust to the glare. Bathed in this brilliant light there wasn't much the BMW's and the Porsche's for all the money spent into buying them could do about it and the traffic ground to a halt. As he basked in this brilliant sunshine for some reason struggling to hold in the beauty of this sight, he suddenly felt warm he suddenly felt WELCOME.

6 comments:

Rohan Kumar said...

Well this happened a few days after I came to NJ and I maintained my opinion till the more recent latter thing happened .... believe me I've been a different driver since

totti said...

sure.I understand. Such things really go a long way in you growing as a mature driver. I have personally expereiened this. Pointy would vouch for it :)

M (tread softly upon) said...

how long is your drive?

Rohan Kumar said...

@totti Then you are a very loooooong way from being both 'mature' and a 'driver' is what pointy might retort ;)

@M Used to be abt 50 mins when this incident happened, now its more like 30 mins. WHy do u ask?

M (tread softly upon) said...

Because I drive close to 1.5 hours each way and I promise myself every single day that the next time we buy a house I will make sure I am close to work.

Rohan Kumar said...

@m 1.5 hrs must truly suck, u better act on that promise sometime soon