safety first

Well the city traffic police are taking strict measures to endorse safety while driving.

I got fined for not wearing the seatbelt.
The irony was my cousin in the passenger seat had strapped his seat belt while I thought it better to simply flout the tenet.
What about the folks in Rickshaws, are their lives less valuable?
They do not require seatbelts as they do not have seatbelts or is it that they do not have seatbelts as they do not require seatbelts.
Well in India seatbelts are a luxury, I remember Suzuki 800 in '84 used to charge additional for the seatbelt, they used to call it a luxury accessory.
Yes, a luxury accessory for those who consider their lives valuable!

And another time I got fined for speeding.
Where are speed limits posted on the damn road. I have no idea I am yet to see one in the stretch I drive. I was told, I was doing 72km/hr in a 70km/hr zone.
At one time I saw a speed limit post of 40km/hr.
No point bringing that up, who drives at 40km/hr or who can drive at 40km/hr on the highway.

Yet another time, I was halted for not putting on the Hazard while crossing a junction.
The cop who stood me, said that when I intend to go straight at a crossing, I need to switch my hazards on. Yup, this cop had it that left indicator is to go left, right indicator to go right, and both indicators to go straight.

I finally came across the news that the city traffic police coffers are empty.
That explains at lot!

that is life...

had a cousin who passed away in a road accident.
He was 24.

either.....you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends and family die. sometimes life is just like that.

Maybe it isn't about living or dying.
maybe we are just too focused on our lives or too focused on who died.

maybe it is not about us living till 94 or dying at 24, perhaps it is all about how you finally go!

it's about what we were able to do till then.....

'So do I,' said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
-- Gandalf,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
Fellowship of the Ring, Second chapter,
"The Shadow of the Past",

getting to the summit

Reaching the summit of a mountain doesn't mean jack if you don't make it back down to base camp.