Patience - Do You Have It ??

Are you having enough patience in life ??

It was the last week of December – the last week of the year 2010, I witnessed an accident on the NICE Road.

I was travelling towards my office on the NICE road. At the end of the NICE Road, it connects to the Hosur road. Usually, during the peak hours, there will be lot of traffic at the end of this connecting road. So, many of the vehicle users tend to travel on the other side of the road (i.e. on the right side of the road where the vehicles come from opposite direction) after passing the final toll on the NICE Road. This road provides them as a shortcut, so that they can reach their destination early. Yes, the accident which I witnessed was due to a vehicle following the wrong direction.

I was in the office bus, stuck in the traffic jam near the end of the road. A Scorpio car user came in the wrong direction, overcoming all the traffic that was there from around 10 minutes. He must have thought that he is reaching the destination earlier than what he had thought of. But alas, there was something to happen. A bike rider coming in the right direction couldn’t recognise that this Scorpio was coming in his opposite direction, breaking the road rules. Unable to control his bike, he rammed into the Scorpio. The result? The bike was broken into pieces. The head light, the front tyre, most of the front part of the bike was broken into pieces. And the saddest thing – he laid on the road unconscious…!! Maybe he was dead !!

What was the mistake he committed ??  - Nothing…!!!

He was just coming in the right direction. But unable to control his bike, he lost his balance and lay helpless on the road. I don’t know what happened to him, don’t know whether he survived or was dead.

So whose mistake was it? Yes, it was the mistake committed by the Scorpio user who came in the wrong direction. Though the bike user did not do any mistake, he was a victim of the mistake committed by some other person.

In this world, why is that people who commit mistake are spared and the ones who don’t commit any mistake become the victims ? If only the Scorpio user had waited for some time in the traffic, he could’ve avoided the accident. He could’ve waited with a small amount of patience. Not only him, many of us like him, tend to lose patience, especially in situations like traffic and tend to take shortcuts. It may not have an effect on us directly. But others may suffer because of our mistakes.

So people, please have some patience in all the things you do. I don’t say not to break the rules. Some rules HAVE to be broken in life. But not the ones which can cause trouble to others. Any comments ??