Wear and tear

This thought crossed my mind on my way home, after a long day at work and more importantly when the bus I was traveling in hadn’t moved an inch in 30 whole minutes!

What in the world was happening to Bangalore city? The Garden city that it was called 5 years ago…really, was this city as beautiful and clean and “green” as they say it used to be? I’ve been here for a year and I haven’t seen a single Gulmohar tree…the many that used to line the roads so pleasingly…the city I know now is one that lacks basic things like infrastructure, civic amenities, drainage systems…etc etc etc…a city where the roads are more like many potholes put together to fit a jigsaw puzzle…a city where you can see cars at a standstill (in all directions, mind you) on most roads and at all times unfailingly…roads, sorry, potholes flooded with water with the slightest of heavenly showers…did we forget the live electric wires dangling freely on the sidewalk, that oh so sparkle the city alive and stun the ordinary man straight to his heavenly abode!

Is this what we call “wear and tear”?

And what about the people? I always feel that it’s the people that make a place worth living…this is strictly my opinion but I haven’t found the best of people out here! Maybe I haven’t met the right people…maybe there’s a whole bunch of nice folks out there…who knows! I for one surely haven’t known any of them in this city in the past year? I guess, we can easily hold accountable the burdens and stress of working life, the pressures of fast moving careers, and more so the horrors of daily traffic jams for all of this…but then this really ain’t gona change in today’s fast paced world; so does that mean we’re all gone turn out be grumpy, unfriendly and rude!

As I sit here in the bus since the past one-hour and with an hour more to reach home, I have a neck and back ache that is beginning to aggravate again…something I surely did not experience a year ago…is this all there is to our days…rushing from one place to another, getting as much work done today so that we have lesser to do tomorrow (but it never happens anyways)…thinking about our aches and pains all evening…silly worries about our surroundings, the city, our lifestyles and what not…hardly any cheerful moments with a friend and loved one…and the scariest according to me…going to bed without a single nice thought in the day…!!!

Is this what we call a healthy lifestyle?

Or is this ultimately “wear and tear”!!!