Very frequently, I use to traverse through one of the highly congested and booming regions of my city – T Nagar. One must have great audacity and dazzling driving skills to get pass the traffic swiftly. In peak hours, the words ‘safety’, ‘traffic rules’, ‘order’ and at times ‘ethics’ loose their definitions. All the riders can be seen raging in their intentions to blaze past each other and reach their destinations(?) soon. They use to honk vigorously even before the signal reads green. If you happen to be an unfortunate pedestrian walking there, you will realize as why the hell in the world the ugly road accidents happen.
Finally, unable to manage the traffic intensity in that region, a bridge was built to dilute the traffic flow. It really served as a gem, dispersing the traffic and saving lot of precious time for the veterans traveling through that place. Neverthless, some morons refuse to abide. They cause lot of fuss to the rare bunch of people, who really believe the regulations, standing by the line and signaling in a turn. Once, such irritation engulfed me, when i was standing atop the bridge. An eternal array of riders kept storming past me, driving in the wrong lane allocated to the fellows coming opposite to us. Those retards stagnated the traffic in our lane allowing a free movement in the other. Everyone who stood beside me were fuming inside and started abusing them. After few minutes they lost their patience and started to leave the row one by one and got past the crowd. At long last, they made the traffic impasse leaving no ways to move further. I too started thinking to break the shackles and move past everyone and reach the front. But i dint, and honeslty i couldn’t find the reason that prevented me to do that. May be, that’s called conscience.
It is simple to understand that only few stingy people initiate to break the rules arousing others to do so, resulting in an avalanche. But the bottom line is that a pinch of ethics and discipline would see us through. One cannot disrepute their conscience to achieve any materialistic or idealistic benefits. Realizing and accepting it, not only in this scenario but also in different others, would slowly and steadily erase the byname – ‘undisciplined’ tagged to us, Indians.
