Travel Log

The beauty of traveling by train is you get an unique opportunity to mingle with persons from different domain and culture. Though now a day the younger generation is over occupied with their cell phones and other gadgets. They do not prefer to take a break even while traveling from them. Similar is the case with over stress executives working in private sector. But people, who are in their late sixties and above, always look for an opportunity to start the conversation with their fellow passengers. Similar is the case with relaxed government sector employees. Today while settling down on my allotted birth, I found an old man in a very friendly conversation with a middle aged person. Later on, I discovered that the old man was a retired Raw officer and the middle aged person was a second generation successful entrepreneur. Both were well educated and widely traveled around the world. The old man was looking at least ten years younger than his actual age of 72. On contrary, his wife was in a bad shape and suffering from abnormal heart beats and diabetes. The middle aged man shared his experience about best quality of Russian minerals and chemicals. The old recalled about dry fruits of Iran. After a long discussions of similar and topics related to current affairs, the middle aged person asked about secret of his fitness. He gave credit to his disciplined lifestyle and yoga. The middle aged person turned to old lady and asked why she not join him in these activities. He kept on insisting and suggesting that she must join him during morning walk and yoga session. After a lot of insistence, the old lady finally broke out and we came to know about a tragedy they went through before eight years. They had two sons, elder one settled in London and other in Hyderabad. Eight years ago the elder son came to India for getting married. On very next day the couple left for a hill station. While on honeymoon, one day the girl slipped and fell into a river. The boy, who did not know swimming, jumped to save the girl. The girl was saved but only dead body of the boy could be recovered after one day. The old lady was a very good painter and her paintings had fetched lakhs of rupees during many art exhibitions. The lady was reduced to ashes after this tragedy. She left everything. She did not even come out from her house for next four years. With tears filled in her eyes, in breaking voice, she told how terrible she experienced, when her younger brother one day forced her to come out and have a little walk in nearby garden.

The old man was looking toward different direction with dry and stable eyes. Life is like that. You do not know what destiny has decided for you. You create you world with utmost care and hard work. Suddenly something happens, about which, you have not even imagined and you found yourself totally destroyed. The old lady was so scared about being happy that she did not celebrate the birth of her grandson. She told that her husband keeps himself busy with lot of work. But memories of her son still haunt her. She feels his presence all over.

I found the old man very caring and a true companion. After the tragedy he realized the gravity of the situation. He must have realized his responsibility towards his better half. He started yoga and long morning walks, so that he become fit enough to take care of her wife for remaining life period.

This is the winner attitude. You should not let any destiny’s play to destroy your world completely. You should stand up with stronger determinations, so that you could save the remainings and built even a better world. After all you are assigned so many roles in this world and you have to perform well in all. If some roles are taken back from you, you are still supposed to perform well in remaining ones.