“Early bird gets the
worm” goes a saying. So I was trying to be that early bird for the
past 2 days being so early to work discovering how it feels to be
early as I have always been a latecomer right from my
schooldays.Apart from the weird looks from my office security and
constant teasings from my colleagues on my strange behaviour there is
something which I felt quite annoying the last two days. The unusual
traffic at the same time same place for 2 consecutive days. Being a
hasty person I am, first day it was so easy for me to vroom amidst
the vehicles and ignore the reason as usual but today I was quite
curious to find out the reason for the unusual traffic and it was so
obvious that parents were busy driving their kids to school after
summer vacation. I was quite surprised not to find any one student on
the road. Either they were occupying the pillion seat or inside cars
or vans.Not a single student was driving a bicycle or walking to
school or not even using the public transport. Not generalising the
total student community in anyway but just expressing the real
situation I witnessed today. Not to forget, the above scenario was
around the most posh school of the city so there is always room for
exceptions not to become examples. Anyways the point of the post is
what happened to the bicycles? Has it become so obsolete for the
students? There is always an unexpressable pleasure and feel of pride
and self reliance when we drive our own vehicle. So that is the first
attidude that the students must be taught but here we have come to a
point to ignore the most obvious. Not here to whine for any reason
because there is no need actually. Amidst facebook and all the so on
so things to destroy the childhood they have always managed to
exponentially increase the number of state toppers every year and all
the remarkable acheivements in every field. So it is quite safe to
assume that there is a balance between social life and personal
life.Coming to the point, We have abandoned cycles as a mode of
transport. Even though the fuel prices have sky rocketed, we still
find it absolutely insulting to ride a cycle to our destinaion.We
would rather spend money on Orbitrek than riding a cycle to office.
Its ironical how that obsolete vehicle to be rode for schools and
office is considered to be the most stylish vehicle if you decide to
cycle on the beach in the evenings.
Curiosly,
Aswini
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