Night travel have always attracted me, night travel doesn’t mean the night travel to reach a different city altogether, but night travel in city buses where you can enjoy a lot of things like, peaceful bus commuting without any mad crowd, cool breeze from the ever entertaining darkness outside, speed, yes we all have to accept that once in a while we just want to live that moment, without worrying about “Speed thrills but kills”, though being careful is absolutely necessary.
I have always been lucky, for I have got a lot of opportunities right from my childhood to travel by late night buses. During my early childhood, we used to live in a place which was about 15 kms away from the city centre, and was connected by a single road, a state highway. During those days, I just used to sit beside the window and enjoy the cool breeze/wind from outside hitting on my face along with my cool bro, who used to like that, still acted as though he is a “Big brother”.
Then came the days of high school, when I used to travel to school by public buses only. During those days, I couldn’t actually travel much during night by late night buses except very rare cases. Then came by std 10th tuitions, when I was traveling easily about 20 kms one way to attend tuitions, I just loved it. Evening, I used to start and reach the tuition centre by late evening and attend an hour of tuitions 5 days a week. And then came the most exciting part of that day … yes … traveling. Used to commute by again a state highway, which most of the time had very scanty traffic. As again, I used to live my childhood days again sitting beside the window and enjoying the whole “ride” till I reached home, and on the way studying. Yes, I used to study on the bus as I used up 3-4 hrs of my day in commuting from the tuition centre and back.
Then, during Pre-University ( 11th and 12th days), I hardly used to enjoy the commute back as I used to travel from a centre of the city to my locality and most of the time, the buses were hardly empty, it used to be crowded and I really couldn’t enjoy the travel.
Then during my Graduation days, the only time I used to do night traveling was when I used to attend “Placement written tests” and return home by 9-9:30. So again, it was hardly enjoyable, as either I would be worrying what to study, if I had got selected for the next rounds of interview or I will be thinking why I didn’t get through, except for once, when I can cleared both the written test as well as the interview. Only on that occasion I really loved every minute till I reached home and handed over my offer letter to my mom and saw the smile on her face and felt satisfied for all the efforts I had put till that day in my life.
From past few weeks, I am “forced” to travel by night public buses once in a while, as there is a release nearing and I am slogging towards it. I live every moment when I am traveling, that too the road happens to be the ring road and bus driver makes sure he touches 70-80Kmph, though this might seem to be a small thing for two and four wheelers, but to hit 70 or 80 on a six wheeler and at the same time hearing the whole bus wobbling every nook and corner as its moving at that speed is altogether a different experience. I was so thrilled that I took a few pics and just enjoyed the commute.
I really don’t know whether I will be getting this chance again and again but wanted to make the feel immortal, so decided to publish a blog post about it and here it is.
What do you want to know about me ..?
I am just a normal man with his feet firmly on ground and want to touch the sky, as u wud find out in my fist post, i did it!!
want to achieve heights in my life. Dont know how, when, will I ..? YES .. I WILL!!
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