While I was sailing across the net (worthless to say, worthlessly), came across this very interesting image. And here are the thoughts that yelled out in me until I was forced to be pulled out of this.
When the flight lands, we get up from our seats and head for the exit. So what if the exit door is still closed. At least when it opens, we won’t have to wait behind a zillion people before we get to alight. When in a traffic, if on a bike, we always have to zig-zag our way to the front. When standing in queue, be it in the airport, mall, temple, some stores or in the bus depot we have to jump the queue.
In a temple, we also have a VIP entrance. For those impatient to stand in the serpentine queue and await their turn, you simply have to pay extra to get access to God’s attention a lot quicker than those guys standing in the queue. When in a Movie theatre, we wouldn’t mind buying tickets in black, if we know we might end up not watching the movie. In the station we have to be the first to board the train. How else will we get vacant seats to sit on? While on a short distance trip, I took a train back to Lucknow. Inspite of having booked my tickets in advance and got my seat numbers too, I found a family of four occupying my seat. I only got to sit after they had alighted. By the time we were approaching Lucknow, I was not the only ones sitting. I was sharing the seat with some five odd people.
What right do you have to sit comfortably on that seat when there are 5 other people standing? It is not a request. It is their right.
Its starts right from the beginning in the schools, I think. The teacher writes a sum to be solved on the board. “Whoever finishes solving the problem, put up your hand.” You have to be the first one to solve the problem, correctly. The one, who solves the problem and is luckily the first one, not only gets all the praises but becomes the envy of the class too. What pride in that :D So much of joy to watch your fellow classmates look at you with envy.
“If you come first in the class, I promise you a laptop.” And your child’s eyes grow wide with excitement. He indeed tops the class.
I often wonder, if there is no other way of living our lives. But probably, there is a reason why we are the way we are. It’s all about the survival of the fittest. We are after all, a population of 1.21 billion. Can you imagine? How else do you survive? The day you stop competing, that is the same day you stop surviving… Little little things we do like jumping the queue, sends cues to our unconscious or probably conscious brain that ‘Yes, we are still in the race…STILL COMPETING…STILL SURVIVING…’
