With wrinkled clothes and tousled hair, as you collapse on one of the ‘not so comfortable’ bus seats, it’s already dark.
The sun has set a few hours ago. You recall that it was still dark when you had left for work in the morning. You had a long tiring day.
“The sun also has lesser working hours than the corporate employees...” you curse the situation.
In this tiredness, too, the sleep deprives you. The dim lights inside the bus don’t let you read. The aimless scrolling on Facebook walls and checking unnecessary WhatsApp statuses of random people makes you feel bored.
Tiredness + Boredom - Sleep = Catch 22
It is when you decide to peep out of the window. And observe nature, that nature which is polluted because of the vehicular traffic.
“The bus is moving faster than usual...” Hardly did this thought strikes your mind when you come to know that the bus has come to a halt. The city traffic never betrays its commuters.
Outside the window, you see a small truck standing adjacent to your bus. It is like any other goods carrier truck, then what’s so novel about it?
But, still, it’s different for it carries discarded pipes, titles and other debris of remnants from a construction site and amidst this construction waste, you see men!
Men who are tan skinned, dusty haired and torn clothed.
Men who look just like you.
Like you, they too have had a tiring day.
But, there is one difference, one striking difference!
No, not that of the attire, attire is just a second skin, beneath which all humans look the same.
Then what’s the difference?
In the polluted air, amidst the honking horns of heavy traffic, on the bed of dust and dirt, all of them are sleeping, sleeping peacefully.
And you? With wrinkled clothes and tousled hair, sitting on one of the ‘not so comfortable’ bus seats, you realize,
“Life is what you make it...”

The sun has set a few hours ago. You recall that it was still dark when you had left for work in the morning. You had a long tiring day.
“The sun also has lesser working hours than the corporate employees...” you curse the situation.
In this tiredness, too, the sleep deprives you. The dim lights inside the bus don’t let you read. The aimless scrolling on Facebook walls and checking unnecessary WhatsApp statuses of random people makes you feel bored.
Tiredness + Boredom - Sleep = Catch 22
It is when you decide to peep out of the window. And observe nature, that nature which is polluted because of the vehicular traffic.
“The bus is moving faster than usual...” Hardly did this thought strikes your mind when you come to know that the bus has come to a halt. The city traffic never betrays its commuters.
Outside the window, you see a small truck standing adjacent to your bus. It is like any other goods carrier truck, then what’s so novel about it?
But, still, it’s different for it carries discarded pipes, titles and other debris of remnants from a construction site and amidst this construction waste, you see men!
Men who are tan skinned, dusty haired and torn clothed.
Men who look just like you.
Like you, they too have had a tiring day.
But, there is one difference, one striking difference!
No, not that of the attire, attire is just a second skin, beneath which all humans look the same.
Then what’s the difference?
In the polluted air, amidst the honking horns of heavy traffic, on the bed of dust and dirt, all of them are sleeping, sleeping peacefully.
And you? With wrinkled clothes and tousled hair, sitting on one of the ‘not so comfortable’ bus seats, you realize,
“Life is what you make it...”

