Last night, I just missed being crushed under the wheels of the Infy Bus in which I was travelling. I could not sleep just coz of this. The way it happened is as follows:
I called up my neighbour by 19:05. We spoke normally. I told her that today might actually be one of the happiest days of my life. It did become so... One of my past desires was that something unexpected should happen to me which inflicts a lot of pain as well as some sort of psychotic pleasure too.
Our bus took an unusually long time to reach our place. I was stressed out at work and had slept almost all the way back home. I was quite awake when we were near Rajajinagar. We had an unwanted traffic Jam on the way from Industrial Town to Basaveshwaranagar Circle. When the bus approached the Basaveshwaranagar Circle, I went and stood at the door of the bus. I was holding one of the bars on the door. I slipped on the first step (the topmost one) and just coz I was holding one of the bars, I ended up having an inch of my foot on the last step (the lowest). If my hand had slipped or if the foot had slipped again, I'd have been gone, either under the rear wheels of the same bus or beneath the vehicles (a couple of cars and a bus) that were coming just behind our bus. It was that inch that saved my life.
Is it Fortunate or Unfortunate that I escaped death by an inch... I am unable to decide. Do I consider this to be a slip between the cup and the lip?
I called up my neighbour by 19:05. We spoke normally. I told her that today might actually be one of the happiest days of my life. It did become so... One of my past desires was that something unexpected should happen to me which inflicts a lot of pain as well as some sort of psychotic pleasure too.
Our bus took an unusually long time to reach our place. I was stressed out at work and had slept almost all the way back home. I was quite awake when we were near Rajajinagar. We had an unwanted traffic Jam on the way from Industrial Town to Basaveshwaranagar Circle. When the bus approached the Basaveshwaranagar Circle, I went and stood at the door of the bus. I was holding one of the bars on the door. I slipped on the first step (the topmost one) and just coz I was holding one of the bars, I ended up having an inch of my foot on the last step (the lowest). If my hand had slipped or if the foot had slipped again, I'd have been gone, either under the rear wheels of the same bus or beneath the vehicles (a couple of cars and a bus) that were coming just behind our bus. It was that inch that saved my life.
Is it Fortunate or Unfortunate that I escaped death by an inch... I am unable to decide. Do I consider this to be a slip between the cup and the lip?
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