Last four days were as eventful as they can get.
Covered a distance of around 2200 kms attended the marriage of two of my best friends.
As it is common with any kind of journey..it always leaves you with memories.
This one was no exception...
We landed at Jammu airport at 9:40 on the morning.
After collecting our baggage we were waiting for our friends ,who were about to reach in the next plane...
In this process...we took some 10-15 minutes...and by then a pretty long Queue came up at the Pre Paid Taxi counter.
I was standing behind some 10-15 guys in the queue.
For some reason the queue wasn't moving for some time....
It might be because of a confused tourist who doesn't know as to where he should take a taxi.
or it might be because of the guy at the Taxi counter does not have the change to payback to the guy.
Whatever it was ...after 2-3 minutes i checked my positon in the queue.
I was still the last....
This made me feel a bit uneasy...
Why was i still the last man...i glanced at Shagun and the two friends.
I feared they might even ask...why are you still in the last position in the queue.
After 3-4 minutes a group came and enhanced the queue a bit more.
Now as i was not the last person in the queue...i felt relieved.
I couldn't believe the way i was reacting...
The people who were after me in the queue had no impact on my reaching the Taxi counter...
but..
Somehow their absence made me insecure...
and their presence made me feel better.
While in the queue...i could make up my mood swings and tried to analyse the mood swings.
This might sound a trivial occurence...
but after a bit of analysis...i found my behavior shocking.
If the people in front or the people behind in queue could decide my happiness/sadness.
It could well be happening in the day to day events as well.
The people were in front because they did something different which got them in front.
The people behind did not do something that i did and that got me ahead of them.
but whatever it was...my TAXI-BOARDING-TIME remained a absolute function of my actions...and not anybody else's.
So when ...TAXI-BOARDING is the motive...and TAXI-BOARDING-TIME is an absolute function of my position in the queue.
Why was my happiness RELATIVE to my Position in the Queue??
Covered a distance of around 2200 kms attended the marriage of two of my best friends.
As it is common with any kind of journey..it always leaves you with memories.
This one was no exception...
We landed at Jammu airport at 9:40 on the morning.
After collecting our baggage we were waiting for our friends ,who were about to reach in the next plane...
In this process...we took some 10-15 minutes...and by then a pretty long Queue came up at the Pre Paid Taxi counter.
I was standing behind some 10-15 guys in the queue.
For some reason the queue wasn't moving for some time....
It might be because of a confused tourist who doesn't know as to where he should take a taxi.
or it might be because of the guy at the Taxi counter does not have the change to payback to the guy.
Whatever it was ...after 2-3 minutes i checked my positon in the queue.
I was still the last....
This made me feel a bit uneasy...
Why was i still the last man...i glanced at Shagun and the two friends.
I feared they might even ask...why are you still in the last position in the queue.
After 3-4 minutes a group came and enhanced the queue a bit more.
Now as i was not the last person in the queue...i felt relieved.
I couldn't believe the way i was reacting...
The people who were after me in the queue had no impact on my reaching the Taxi counter...
but..
Somehow their absence made me insecure...
and their presence made me feel better.
While in the queue...i could make up my mood swings and tried to analyse the mood swings.
This might sound a trivial occurence...
but after a bit of analysis...i found my behavior shocking.
If the people in front or the people behind in queue could decide my happiness/sadness.
It could well be happening in the day to day events as well.
The people were in front because they did something different which got them in front.
The people behind did not do something that i did and that got me ahead of them.
but whatever it was...my TAXI-BOARDING-TIME remained a absolute function of my actions...and not anybody else's.
So when ...TAXI-BOARDING is the motive...and TAXI-BOARDING-TIME is an absolute function of my position in the queue.
Why was my happiness RELATIVE to my Position in the Queue??
6 comments:
dadasiba chalo hamare saath, sab samajh aa jaaega
nice observation! :)
I guess its becoz sometimes we measure our success by how many ppl r behind us than comparing how many r in front or better not comparing at all..
Its because we think we are happy if we are ahead of some people or are in better condition than some and being in worse condition than other makes us sad, what we dont care is about what we are feeling or in what condition we are we jus always take a relative count.
Its not you knowing that you are last, its knowledge that your friends know you are not last.
Ye padh ke ek video ki yaad aa gayi :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=U3NgzQ9Pcsg
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