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One more day -

Morning @ 11 AM, place : Office
I logged in to orkut and one of my old friends pinged me. She said do watch my onsite snaps, I have just uploaded them on orkut. She is been in US from last 1 year. I checked the snaps and my mind started calculating (as every IT guy's mind starts for onsite). She is of the same age, same degree, less experience. She, being my good friend, I was very happy for her but somewhere I was a little frustrated....
Frustration level : 30%

Afternoon @ 2 PM, place : Office
Got a call from my friend, he switched his job in a big MNC...as the so called recession is over, got almost double hike...he also booked a flat in one of the best locations in Pune. he is younger than me...offcourse I was happy for him but again...
Frustration level : 70%

Evening @ 4 PM, place : Canteen
Another call from my school friend. She cleared her MBA from London and got placed in a nearby company with a well to do contract. Her wedding is been fixed with her boyfriend and would take place in June. I congratulated her, it was really great to hear from my very best friend about her success in career as well as love life...Yes I was glad for her.....but
Frustration level : 100%

Evening @ 5 PM,place : Bus Station
I was waiting for my 5:15 bus going to my hometown. A small girl about 8, 9 yrs old came near me. She was not a tramp but was wearing dirty and torn cloths. Excitedly looking at the people out there, the buses and was trying to mimic the bus conductor. She asked me if I want a ticket. I said yes please give me one, she gave me a piece of paper as a ticket and in return I gave her a chocolate. She smiled and it was one of the most temperate smiles I have ever seen in my life....I was going to ask her a few questions but meanwhile her mom came and said, "Pardon her, It's her first journey by bus and she is very excited. Thank you for the chocolate as she is eating it for the first time." I offered her a few more, she looked at her mom, her mom nodded, she took them and thanked me.

Evening @ 5:15 PM,place : In bus
I entered in bus, was still thinking about that small girl. In the seat next to mine, an old man was sitting looking very stressed and nervous. He was very thin, wearing a white kurta and dhoti. There was a middle aged man with him convincing him something. I tried to listen to them and found that the middle aged man was a member of an old age home. He was taking that old man to Satara's old age home. That old man started crying as the bus started, saying he still wants to live with son and daughter in law. The middle aged man was convincing him that it's not possible as your son don't want to live with you and has handed over you to our old age home. I couldn't recognize but strangely tears rolled out of my eyes seeing that old man crying. It was a mixed kind of feeling I was feeling bad for him but at the same time I had an urge to meet his son and daughter in law and ask them how can they behave like this....But It was not possible for me to do anything for him..

Evening @ 5:30 PM,place : In bus
Bus stopped at Swargate and few more passengers entered. A women with 3 children came and sat near me. Her 2 children were sitting at another seat and she took her 1 year child in her lap. Bus started moving and that women started a conversation. She was a bit talkative, though I was not much interested in talking with her, I couldn't stop her from talking.... In next one hour I was all aware of how her husband is, how her mother in law irritates her and how she was feeling good as she was on way to her mom's home. I asked her how she manages looking after her 3 children and she told her whole story. She got married at 16 and her husband was of 30. at 17 she got her first kid it was a baby girl, at 19 she got another baby girl and at 22 she got a third baby girl...her mother in law and husband were very upset with her and wanted a baby boy...everyday she has to listen to their taunts and say nothing keeping in mind that she has to brought her daughters up confidently and make them independent. She was just 23 and handling so much responsibility, I was shocked and touched....

I thought to share this with you as this day was one of the most happening days of my life. It showed me so many different scenarios and enlightened the most important aspects of life...Every time in life we compare ourselves with the other people, who is going ahead of us, we are ahead of whom, what the other person is getting and what we are lacking. We just need to remember every person has it's own ups and downs in life, life can be very lucky at times and very bad at another....Still people don't loose their hopes and keep on moving trying to make life happier, better and better....No Need to say, at the end of the day my frustration level was 0!!!