Maxwar

Many of you would be surprised to know that even after being born and brought up in Mumbai and till now at the age of 24 yrs I have travelled by mumbai local trains as many times enough to be counted on fingers.Yesterday I got another rare opportunity to travel by our local train for some work on the harbour line. As usual, my father again quite forcefully offered me that he can do the work on my behalf and I need not take the trouble of travelling so far. (is travelling alone really that tough?) But I really didn't want to miss this opportunity to visit a place I had never been before and above all the experience of travelling by local train J and I accompanied dad.

The overall experience was good. I got to observe many interesting people. Like, some smart people reaching the ticket counter much before the guy standing ahead of him in the queue. The one which is really worth mentioning here is of a middle aged man. It happened so that two young guys asked this uncle to play a role of a responsible citizen and stop people who were taking shortcuts to the ticket counter. He being a bit elder person would be respected and hopefully might be obeyed by others. Uncle did as said. Surprisingly , few men also accepted his request! Then came the kahani mein twist, uncleji rewarded himself for his good deed and utilized the shortcut route to get the tickets for himselfJ amazing!

When the train arrived, dad asked me to enter the ladies compartment. " got a seat?" dad asked me on phone ."haan" I hanged up ..actually I was standing near the door enjoying the breeze J Among the many other interesting ladies I met there, the one who caught my special attention was the one in school uniform. I was keeping an eye on the signboards to read the name of stations we were passing by.I missed one such station and tried to enquire about it from a lady standing next to me. She seemed a bit confused about it, that's when the little girl in uniform answered my query precisely with some bonus information on the same. I was very impressed by her knowledge and moreover her confidence. After few more questions, I came to know that the little angel was travelling all by herself from Seawoods to Wadala to and fro each day. She is a 6^th std student of a school in Wadala!!! Initially I had thought she must be accompanying her mom just like I was with my dad. I was very surprised to know about this, may be b'coz at her age I only managed to cross the road in front of my society gate to reach my school at the opposite side of the road. Travelling was out of question!

I felt like giving her a tight hug but, "beep beep" my phone rang, papa calling "after this station is our destination" ..train halted at seawoods and as the angel alighted, along with a warm smile gave me loads of courage!!

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