I just made it to the bus with my backpack and the kfc burger in my hands ... the very last bits of indulgence before I left this city of beauty ... a city of beautiful people experiences and places !
This was my third trip to bangalore in the last one year , it all started with becoming friends with this person online and then going on a wild goose chase to meet this person in the real world and so on and so forth ... we'll leave that story for some other day
I'll like to call this trip a great success ! (Imagine borat saying that and it'll definitely bring a smile to your face). Did the usual smoking drinking eating thing but it was some how just more than that . I guess it has a lot to do with all the new people I met and the bonds I forged (hope they liked me as much as I liked them) and the fact that I was meeting some friends who are really close to me and share my joys and sorrows and my boring stories almost everyday over the phone or while chatting online after a long hard day of going to college ( college can be so so stressful !!!)
The main reason behind this journey to bangalore was to spend some quality time with that friend and just try helping her out with some stuff in her head (hope i succeeded on some level, can't really help cause I have very little insight on relationships !) and trying to get a smile on her face plus plus plus get some things in return ... good food being the primary concern on the getting back front !
So we basically hung out ... watched movies ... created mayhem .... ate good food and drank some good stuff ... smoked some incenses and ya did loads of other random stuff ! even managed to get into this popular place in blore called fuga and the experience over there was quite refreshing surprisingly !
Well back to what I really wanted to talk about ... I barely made it to my bus because of the huge traffic jams in the IT + GARDEN city of India. The roads are just so so full all the time in bangalore, its like the place never sleeps or something ... but while going through all these places I couldnt help but notice how all cities ... places ... people all over the world are so similar ! The way they act ... react ... deal with problems ... move on .. its all similar ! Even our problems follow this common path and aren't really that different ... stick to the basics I always like to repeat in my head !( roti kapdaa aur makaan ... lol) Took an auto once in the city and had an animated discussion with the driver about how traffic jams take place and why some drivers should be just banned from driving, even parking on the roads ... didnt really have anything else to talk about ... got to know about his family and how many years he had been living in the big city for ! Everyone is just trying to run away from something in their own lives ... If all of us just stopped for a second and faced those inner fears, I bet the world would be so much better ... brighter !
Ya so going back to the bus ... I've always had this thing in my head of taking a bus to some place and meeting my true love or something in the bus ! Always wish that this girl would come and sit next to me on some journey to some place and we would like totally hit it off (emmotionally and spiritually i mean ... other things come later folks !!!) and we'll get off the bus somewhere in the middle and just spend time together or whatever ! Don't really know what i'm going to say to her when I meet her or where I'm going to take her but ya its just a random crazy thought in the head ! But all I get is weird people sitting next to me ... So I just put my earphones on and blast some heavy metal tune into my head till the time people get settled down and sleep off !
I can never freaking sleep when I travel ... It's a bad habit I've had ever since I was a kid and it refuses to die even thou the sands of time pass me by !!! It's even more difficult when you're leaving a place like bangalore and going to endure 9 hours of pot-holled roads and sharp bends in a bus driven by a guy who doesn't even understand any language that you might speak ! (I love kannada but learning languages is really taxing for me so I'll just stick to hindi and english ... Thank you !) Did see a few faces I recognised from manipal but didnt really feel like striking any conversations ...
So there I was alone again ... A creature of the night left to deal with all the uncertainities of tommorow, tonight ! While travelling I always try to get the window seat, because I just have to know where i'm heading and want to see how I get there ... another one of those unexplainable obsessions ! Travelling during the night is especially interesting because you get to see the world in a totally different context ... a world without people ... without noise ... without happiness and without sorrow ! It's as if I'm visiting this world from another and the people are gone but the things they build are still there .
Leaving bangalore created a storm of electricity in my eyes with all the lights I could see ... from the factories to the various shops to some small house out there.The lights kept on getting fewer and more random as we got further away from bangalore . The reason I'm talking about lights so much is because of what they symbolise to me ... I like to believe that when we go off to sleep, our souls take a break by coming out of our bodies and roaming the Earth to feel refreshed again, so these lights sort of symbolise those souls roaming around ( ya its weird i know ) ... plus these lights combined with the darkness beyond make for such a captivating canvas drawn by an artist unknown ...
When I got bored with the lights, I went back to looking at how people were managing to sleep inside the bus ... Endless pursuits to quench a man's desire to overcome boredom ... It was actually quite interesting how people can contort their bodies to just get a night's sleep ... Bus manufacturers are you listening ?
Looking at the moon sort of brought me a little peace ... it always does actually ! Seeing that big white blob in the sky always makes me feel that come what may there is always someone out there for me ... to show me the way on a dark night or just provide company as I sit by the side of the window or just a good friend who listens and rarely talks back ... the moon solves it all ! Just watching the clouds rush pass by the moon , trying to cover up its light, the best that they can but the moon always triumphs ... right on !
Travelling from bangalore to manipal is journey sans comfort and that is mostly because of the fact that we need to go through the western ghats which are wet hills, full of forests ... ooooo !!! Travelling through the ghats at this time of the night can be an enchanting yet sort of scary experience ... Watching the dark wilderness and the monsters looking back at you ... What if they actually booed back if i said boo ??? Seeing the tree tops up in the sky and how the moon glides not too high above them ! All the broken down buses and trucks on the side of the roads like travellers who gave up reaching their destinations just because it was too hard on them or maybe they just lost track of where they wanted to go . The endless streams criss-crossing the the hills providing life and a certain degree of noise on a peaceful night such as this. All the shadows I can see out in the open in the land meant for no man !
Well somewhere around the 5'o clock mark I did manage some shut eye ... Don't know how that came through but it did . Reached manipal and the whole cycle of college ... hostel ... twist ... hostel ... college is back in place .
In the end I really wish I could be the SUN ... going around the planet everyday ... providing warmth to all its inhabitants large and small ... just a little sun in this infinte sky, travelling a little more everyday than the day gone by ...
p.s : ya i had a girl on my mind as well ... already talked about her in the last post so won't mention her here ! the best way to get a girl is so to give her a little but not too much attention ... atleast that's what my friends have always told me ... sigh ... I wouldn't really know about that either !
