What's the Hurry???

Hello all you people in a hurry,
I am a new co-blogger on this extremely beautiful blog, where we want to express our voices about our one true love. Our Nation.

So, where was I?? Yeah. Sorry for being so sarcatic. I can't help but do that right now. I just came back from the train station. And....needless to say, it was one of those off-days that things just aren't going YOUR WAY. And needless to say, the frustration about the way things work here got to me....for the umpteenth time.

This is something I have been meaning to write on, for a real long time. But, like every other Indian, I don't seem to have any time AT ALL.

So, where was I again??? Yeah. Train station. We went to drop this aunt of mine from Aurangabad. Most of the people I know, don't bother to take platform tickets. Even if the counters are empty or there are very few people. Well, I am proud to say that I am a very law abiding citizen (like my parents) and HAVE to go by the rule book (yeah some, "COOL" people think it is dumb... whatever!!!). I don't know why there was such a huge rush at the Secunderabad station counters. Normally it isnt that way. Don't know what the deal was.

Anyways, the huge rush....and only two of the 8 odd counters had someone manning them. People were buying train tickets as well as platform tickets from those two counters. And mostly males. My mom joined one of the queues. There wasn't any separate queue for ladies, coz there were like 2 ladies present there apart from my mom and me.

I joined in with my mom coz i didnt want the herd of sweaty men pushing my mom around. It was pretty nasty. I even went to the extent of asking my mom to just forget about the ticket, and just go to the platform without one. She wouldn't listen to me. I thought I'd rather join in.

There was an almost stampede at the counter. It beats me as to why we always build so much, and NEVER fully utilise those services. EVER. 2 out of 8 counters open. Platform tickets being taken at the same place as normal ticket. We eventually got the tickets after being pushed a little bit, and mom seeing my temper for the first time. I was literally shouting at people for cutting the line and pushing the females around.

As usual. I commented,"What animals". It was almost a slaughterhouse and we felt like animals waiting to be chopped off. It was truly irritating, disgusting... and after all, it wasnt the first time that we were experiencing it.

Why the sudden outcry u may ask?? Well, when there is talk of so much modernisation and development, you start expecting certain things to change. And just when you think that they ARE infact changing... you get a rude shock that things are still the same...at many place.

We are developing.... in a very unorganised way. And we are behaving like animals. We dont seem to want to wait for anything. On the roads, we forget our manners, shout all sort of possible expletives, and just look at our convenience rather than what is right. Every Indian identifies with what I am trying to say. Maybe right now, I am too very frustrated to put it all in here.....

I must say that India will not develop as long as its citizens are such self-centred people. I dont think being so unorganised is going to help us in any way.

Why the hell are we in such a hurry???