Life & Turbulence

It has been a long official outing. Work kept me occupied but to be fair, I kept myself occupied with work. The good thing about travelling is you come across various people. You get to know them, interact and who knows another good friend in the making. And especially when the place is N.Delhi, you can't complain. C'mon you are in the capital city ;City filled with lot of Dil's ;)

After all the work and fun, while I was returning back home by Spicejet Delhi-Bagdogra flight, everything was going well. I got the window seating. I just stared through the window and it was a splendid view as usual. Again the same feeling, let this flight fly and fly. I don't want to land . Let's keep on flying.

Lost in my thoughts, suddenly interrupted me in fact all of us..Please fasten your seat belts. The flight is about to face turbulence.Please donot panic. No sooner did she make this announcement, people started to panic :) It was like they were supposed to face Yama-The God of Death or like this was the end. I was hardly perturbed. After 10 min or so, heavy jolt and turbulence did greet us. A man in his 50's who was CEO of some big hotel group sitting beside me questioned - Mr.... what's wrong with you ? Are not you scared ? You can be hit badly. I remained silent. Then the turbulence started increasing. Women started screaming,Children crying. While some started praying God and offering prayers. With all this happening, I was laughing. That CEO could not control and said... look Gentlemen..you are weird or you have gone nuts. What makes you laugh? You never know this can be your last journey. You cannot trust these Indian planes. This can go down any moment.

I said, See its simple....I don't fear death. I have given up on everything. I have nothing to loose. Yes-a concern for my parents. It will hurt them badly. But this life and its turbulence, we are used to. Ironically, Death comes first to those who want to live badly and those who want to die , Death keeps them waiting. I recalled one of incidents, my elderly brother Sushil Rathi from Mumbai, He died of blood cancer. I recall the time I spent in Mumbai with him while I was kid. He was full of life. He wanted to live badly.I could see that in his eyes. I really loved him. One day I got the news that he passed away. So the rules of God are really harsh. To add some humor to cheer him, I said CEO sahab .... Aapke samne itna bada paapi bhetha hai....marenge nahi aap. And as I told this, the turbulence had come down - a sigh of relief for all.

Finally, the plane made a safe landing, as we could see the Himalayas.