Distance = Speed X Time. Given any two of the three values, getting the third one is extremely simple and does't require any help from my three years mathematics degree. I don't know the exact distance that I need cover to cross the road and avoid the vehicle coming at the unknown speed from the unknown distance. I neither know my speed nor I know the time I have. I generally go with my instincts and it worked so far ;) Whether it is based on our past history or the history written for us, our instincts works in a marvelous way. Of course, it dies at the moment when we start questioning its trueness.
The median strip here is so wonderful with lush green covered everywhere and a few scraggly little bushes here and there and a row of wild trees. What if I see a snake on a random day? Yeah, a very beautiful snake wiggling its tongue and exhibiting its splendid hoods. What will I do? Will I take few quick photos and share? No way, I am sure I won't do that. I will run. I know I cannot run either to the front or to the back as it is too dangerous on the highway. Obviously I cannot run towards the snake. So the only option I have is to run in the opposite side of the snake. I don't know whether I can run faster than the speed of the snake. I never had race with snakes. I neither know their speed nor the maximum speed that I can run. All I can do is just run as fast as possible with the hope that I can outrun the slithering snake. By the way, not all the snakes chase humans. Do they?
It is a lot lovelier to wait and cross the road from the median than from the sides of the road. I may see a old person trying to cross the road from the other side. I feel it is too risky for them and I wonder why they come alone. It may be students from the near by college. It is very rare that they fail to remind me of my own college days. It could be a school kid trying to run a little faster than her dad, not minding the road and still continuing her conversation. I know she won't know that the holding hands would reverse in another thirty years and that would be the sweetest of feelings.
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This is very much usual. This is just one of those many "usuals" that happens everyday, everyday with no apparent connection to what I am doing or who I am. I mean, these unknown people, random scenes and meaningless thoughts - they all just come and go. I don't remember any of them. I can't recall them on the very next day or even later on the same day. They don't seem to serve any purpose. But it is OK. I believe there are so many things that meant to cross our path in life to make this destination-less journey meaningful - meaningful to the One who designed it ;)
Kovil Pillai P.
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