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Obey siganls and die anyway

Streets are kids' playgrounds. You understand this better if you are from a village. You don't apply any traffic rules there. The kids can play whatever they want and it is the responsibility of elders to drive carefully.

Have you seen the flashing yellow signals? I started seeing them only since my college days. They mean that you can drive but with caution. You have freedom to go but you should be very careful. You need to watch out for pedestrians and others.

It is everywhere - the usual Red/Yellow/Green signals. The rules are clearly defined and you just have to move with the traffic flow. That is a mundane task. You have no control over it. Be a simple man as no heroism is allowed there. You can't easily make wings for your dreams to fly high.

Subways (underpasses) are very much helpful for old people. They don't have to look left and right before crossing the road and don't have to try walking faster than they could. They don't need to worry about the heavy traffic life around. Once again no rules, they can just relax and walk.

End of the school/college life could be a signal. Work could be a signal. So are the marriage and parenthood. The work retirement could be a signal. Unlike road signals these signals make us take a different journey from each point. In fact, all these are just the colours coated on the God made signals like childhood, adulthood,... old age. All are well defined. There is no way to disobey them.

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