Fuss Class...

This week I happened to travel in the First class boogie for the first time. Fascinated as any Second class traveler might be, I was very enthusiastic about this particular journey. I found it quiet amusing to get the ticket without standing in a queue and looking at the smirking faces of those in the queue, while i proudly asked for a First class ticket. I felt like dancing on my way to train from the ticket counter .... I was performing a free style dance in my mind. Within moments the train arrived and I got into the dream boogie with red stripes across on the outside. Wow! There i was in the First class boogie, how exciting...

I looked around and found people rushing in and taking seats, reading news paper, talking on mobile phones. Hmmmm, something is missing, I thought! The train started and with passing stations it became clear what was missing.

Just before the train left, an old fellow got down and changed the boogie...the guys sitting across him laughed mockingly signing that they knew he wasn't a First class material.

A guy entered while the train was leaving the platforms...poor chap, he was panting so badly... he rushed to find a seat so that he can breath in some air. Unfortunately all the seats were taken. He tried accommodating his bag on one of the baggage carriers, but he was so exhausted that he couldn't even think of what he needs to do and looked confused. He paced across the cramped boogie twice before settling for a small space to keep his bag. Sweating profusely and still trying to catch a breath, he asked a passenger to make some place for him to sit. "No fourth seat?" the guy looked disappointed. With no other option left, he came and stood in the passage. The cool breeze relaxed him a bit.

Crowd started to increase with passing stations. Everyone was struggling to get some space to stand. And then the typical fight between passengers took place. Nothing new I told myself. The man standing in front of me was some 6 ft and quiet healthy. Within five mins of alighting the train he started to dose off and with no inhibition he was leaning against my small frail frame. The crowd wasn't as much as it is in Second class, but this man made me experience the rib crushing pressure one gets in Second class.
Somehow I managed to get down at my destination, and mind you the "getting down" felt no different from the Second class. Gosh! I thought, I don't feel any pride in traveling by First class anymore. Yes the crowd was a bit less than otherwise. But the passengers had so much of attitude, and not just the executive types but the regular passengers (probably some govt. employees who can now afford First class) too. Everyone had an air above themselves. They were no less rowdy. They displayed equally foul mouth as that of their Second class counterparts.
And above all, the thing that was missing ..............Humanity!

Madness of mankind...

Of recent I have heard the stupidest thing that mankind can assume. Now human beings are deciding about what is natural and what is not. Since when did a species is given the right to do that? Especially the one species that had done almost all unnatural things that one cannot even think about.

Since when did it become natural to:
...destroy natural habitat to create an artificial one to live in.
...tame individuals of other species for ones own benefit.
...mess around with the order of nature to create new species or cause mutation in the existing one.
...breed among the siblings of a particular species.

Nature has its own ways to say "it's unnatural!"
like to :
...discard abnormal foetus in form of miscarriage.
...shorten life span of deformed newborns.
...wipe out of species that cause harm to the earth.

These are a few things that I could think of as examples. So in short I want to say that let nature decide what is unnatural, for human beings still have not attained the position above nature. For god's sake get over the false idea of us being the decision-maker.

And now a few examples where some things that are a part of nature yet are considered unnatural by mankind (how idiotic!):
...patterns and discolouration in plants is accepted as variegated while the same condition in human beings (vitiligo) is considered ugly and still socially unacceptable.
...some male penguins are seen to form a couple with another male, adopt a stone as egg, reject any advances from the female counterparts and even raise an orphan offspring as its own. Yet homosexuality is considered criminal act and looked down upon by the society.

We don't have much time...we have done enough damage to the nature for it to take a toll. So lets have a peaceful life for as much time as we have and let nature decide its course. It's time when human beings understand their role on the earth and not try to over-rule it.