Bus driver - Route 4

Most of the people's morning start by snoozing their alarm clocks over 10 mins of the time at which they were suppose to get up. Then running towards the bathroom while taking a glance at the newspaper, making a point to check the horoscope to see whats in store for them for the day. Some how we complete our daily chores in the bathroom and put on the first dress on which we get our hands on, taking a bite of whatever is kept on the breakfast table and gulping the glass of milk ,complaining why its so hot, all the time mom n dad shouting why you don't have time , why can't u get up early or bath quickly,why u spend so much time in front of mirror setting ur hairs etc...phew... banging the door as we leave are home....running towards the bus stop...calling our friend who is either already in the bus or will board from our stop,asking him to stop the bus for a minute,praying to god "please make me reach the stop just on time".Then somehow you reach the bus stop and just as we keep our foot on the footstep the last thing that we want at that time is the Bus driver shouting at us..asking why can you never be on time? then you think how dare he speak like that and you spoil your mood for the whole day. That is what i feel is the kind of start we don't want everyday.
If you are wondering that this is what happens with me daily then you are not that wrong.This is what used to be the case when we used to come by Infosystems bus but our Route 4 bus driver,Adesh, is a person of some other material.

Almost in every two days , i have to stop the bus for my friends who some how fail to reach on time and everytime i tell him "Bhaiya woh road cross kar raha hai,aap ek minute ke liye bus rok lo ", he will reply with a smile on his face saying "koi na,aane do'. I mean that guy never ever make a face or get irritated with that, infact he always make you feel as if its someone of his own for whom he is waiting and will wait no matter how late he himself is getting. As I have always seen bus drivers making a point to reach the respective destinations at time , otherwise they have to listen to harsh words of their supervisors and have even seen office building gate keepers noting down the time at which the bus arrives, Even then i have never seen him show any kind of uneasiness or hastiness.
Sometimes i wonder that even if i get heated up at the top , i can always cool myself off when i reach my office, in those airconditioned odc or wings but what makes him keep his head so cool.
Everytime you look towards him he will greet you with a pleasant smile and sometimes chiping in few cheerful statements like " aaj to jaldi aa gai,aaj bus yahan se pakad rahe ho". Rather than giving you a worst start of the day ,every day when i see him he gives my day a perfect and cheerful start.

I don't know whether he is very happy with his life or not and even if he is not ,he definitly knows how to make others feel comfortable and making sure that they have a pleasant day.

Even when somebody goes and tells him to change the fm station or increase or decrease the volume, he graciously reply"oh awaaz nahi aa rahi kya ,shayad volume badana bhul gae"

Even when our fighter bus helper fought with the guy whose car was hit by our bus , he very calmly handeld the situation and pulled our fighter out before he could be beaten black n blue.

I think its very rightly said "Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day" and this guy seriously follows this .

May God Bless him and always keep him like this.

My Idols

"The greatest thing about great people is not the great things that they did but the way they influenced others to follow their path."

Always wanted to write some thing or other about the people who have influenced me a lot throughout my life.The people i idolise comprises not only of great personalities but they even contain my family,my friends ,my colleagues and many strangers.So through this post i will try to compose what all i have learned from each one them.Firstly i will write only small small extracts about them but with time i will keep on expanding them.

First on my list is the Man we all call Bapu,Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , also known as Mahatma Gandhi,the Father of our Great Nation.Bapu was the pillar figure of India's Struggle for Independence.But what really astonishes rather hurts me nowadays is the strong anti-Gandhian wave going around among the so-called X / Y- generation people.Most of the people blame Bapu for our delayed independence.According to them if Bapu wasn't there then we would have got our independence long time back.I don't know how true it is .The only thing that i know is that Bapu deserves much more respect than what we are showing to him. Bapu gave all his life for the struggle of the people of this country .May be he did a lot of wrong things but even if he did one right thing than also he deserves our love ,our respect and our gratitude.

Well some day i will write a book on this great man.

These few lines of Bapu influence me a lot “It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.”
What i take from these lines is that "Let your action speak for you not your words"

Second on my list is one person who motivates me the most to work for my country,for my people.Being a foreigner she did something for this country ,for its people which a native can't even dream of. I think the biggest reason for this was that she never believed that humanity could be divided with so called LOCs between the countries.For god every human being is same and only thing we all need is love and care. She is a perfect example of a Mother.yes i am talking about Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa once said "There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”

She taught me to treat every one with love and care ,make him feel important.What hurts everyone the most is the feeling of being neglected,not cared.And believe me it really make us feel good when we know that there is someone who care for us.

well will continue with more pretty soon