This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 29; the 29th Edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The topic for this month is 'TWO MINUTES'.
No two days are the same. Each has its
own oscillating curve of high and low spikes. But of late, my days are mostly
about lows. A patchy break up and demanding work. I struggle to keep a balance
between my sanity and insanity. I plunge into work to nurse my wounded soul but
it seems to strangle me.
As I sit in my car on my way to office, I
feel stressed at the thought of those piles of files that cluttered my desktop.
I must read and approve them. I drive slowly in the morning’s busy traffic
feeling a little numb around the steering wheel. At a particularly stubborn signal,
another car stops beside me. A man, old
and elegant, leans on the driver’s seat. I look at him, he looks back. Our eyes
meet and we stay like that for few seconds. My eyes mostly blank and
melancholy, his eyes searching. Then suddenly he takes his hands off the steering wheel. He puts both his index fingers on the corner of his lips and pulls them down, revealing a sad face. Then he knits his eyebrows, wrinkles his nose, shakes his head and gives a double thumb down. I look. He then smiles broadly and makes a sweeping movement with his index finger and thumb. He then nods and shows double thumbs up. In spite of me, I am already smiling. He rolls down his window, so do I. Just as the signal turns green, the old man mouths, “This too will pass”.
Life changes for me in those two minutes.
Often you don’t realize that all you were pining for was just a small gesture
or a kind smile or even few minutes of attention. Two minutes of the stranger’s
time in this case did the trick. In those two minutes I learnt not to take
anything too seriously, to take two minutes out to ponder, to donate two
minutes of my time to do something uplifting to someone who is not having his
best time and to always remember, “This
too will Pass.” :)
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