First train experience from Bangalore to Tirunelveli

It happened every time. I never had an idea why.

I had tried many times to book a train ticket to home (using friend's irctc account as I did not have one). Almost all the time the website showed me a waiting in 200+.

For a change i booked a ticket on Tuesday. Oh God! The ticket just got confirmed. But that was just the beginning.

Leave approval, work completion, packing, tats bye from office etc passed within the blink of an eye.

As I had already planned, I walked that 5 km to reach the nearby station to get a train to the main station from where I had to take another train to home.

Just another blink. Tea, ticket collection, photos, train arrival, crossing and arrival at main station passed by.

First time after many years I was half an hour early to the station and for the 836471927483610274910174th time the train came half an hour late.

I boarded the train and just remembered which seat i booked. Time passed for a moment to let me recollect that incident.

I would travel alone and it was preferable to book a side lower seat so that I could watch through the window and go all the way. Eventually I got a side lower seat on the booking time.

Time resumed. “7,15,23 and there you go 31”, finally I found the seat. But as it had always happened to the bachelors traveling alone, there was a middle-aged woman on my seat.

I prayed God that she won't ask me to shift to an upper berth, which if happened, would not have made me sadder like now (but it would have anyways made me sad).

She didn't ask me to shift to an upper berth instead she asked me to move a few compartments away to take an ordinary lower berth (the three seat lower berth), which I would not even have the freedom to sit for a while.

All I could do was just to wait for the middle seat man to come and help him lift his berth up so that we both could sleep compressed.

- Zopher

A Broader Image of Swathi's Murder

Just saw the images of the girl who was killed at Chennai. The last time I saw an image like this, it was from the movie SAW. At least Jigsaw (John Kramer) was not a bad man.

"Everyone deserves a chance to live", was one of his main principles. 

Note: You may search on Google to know more about the incidents. If you don't know what's Saw movie, click the Wikipedia link below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(franchise)
I don't care what media, government, whomsoever is thinking. The friends and acquaintances of the killer. You know who he is. Still you try to support him.

What do to? After all we are just selfish humans.

And news says, it's a fight for love. Great! That's what people do to show their love. Heavenly love to send lover to heaven.

The only blame the male community use to justify such incidents is betrayal by women. Sometimes I feel it's always the fault of guys. Taking movies as an example, not the ordinary commercial incredible movies, but the ones which people have accepted as closer to reality movies, such as Minnale or Vinnaithandi Varuvaya, do they actually cause such incidents?

In Minnale, the lead character actually tries to impress someone who is already engaged to someone. Isn't it betrayal to the engaged man? So isn't it right for him to kill her for he she leaves him for the lead role?

Or in Vinnaithandi Varuvaya, from the beginning of the movie hero knows that heroin is on the side of her parents, but he still tries to convince her demanding her to leave her parents for him. What sense does it make?

So it's almost always men who try to possess a girl even if she is reluctant to this. OK. There could be a possible fault on the women's side too. But then why should there even a concept of love when you blame the whole female community for betrayals?

If a girl leaves the first person for a second person and if it is called a mistake of that girl, then why don't the second person betray another male by trying to separate her from the first person? Why can't he simply say, “you're in love with another man. I can't betray that man. So I won't come close to you even if you had any intention”. In reality we know that men always try to possess a girl no matter what her relationship status is.

Have we missed something that all these are happening? Did we actually forget peace? Did we forget to teach the generation to not try possessing things that don't belong to them?

In the process of making their children rich, family forgot to teach them morals. I'm there process of making their students as toppers, schools forgot to teach them morals. In the process of making money, society and workplaces forgot to teach them morals. So there should be some space where this can be fixed, but left loose this may cause serious issues in the coming days.

- Zopher