A Step Forward About Being The Change!
After 2-3 drinks my friends were showing my bff’s relatives that they were happy in their happiness by dancing on the occasion of my best friend’s brother’s marriage(I don’t care if that’s sounds weird) After being exhausted all of us went to sleep, where we had a great laughter before sleeping. We all decided to leave the next morning and when we reached Bahadurgarh the nearest bus stand from the wedding house, we were heading towards Sonipat via Kharkhoda so we board a bus to Kharkhoda which started moving in a few minutes.
Bus conductor came towards us and asked for tickets, we gave him money and then to my surprise he moved towards other passenger without giving us tickets. We waited for a while, but when we thought he was not going to give us tickets then a friend sitting next to me called him and asked for tickets. He answered with a smile, ‘‘what is the need of tickets, If I am there’’. Then he sat with us and started influencing us with his shitty talk and told us about his salary (Rs. 8,000) which was very fucking low in this too expensive country like India. Listening him talk I suggested that he should do some part time work to support his extra expenses (In my Opinion, some of them were useless) And He replied, ‘‘Brother I have started many businesses, but not a single one of them profits, after that I bribed an officer Rs. 500,000 and got this job as a conductor in Haryana Roadways which is not even permanent. I have spent tons of money of my family on me to earn money but, I always saw losses and losses’’. He stopped for a while and then started again, ‘‘When I was of your age, I also thought of eradicating corruption from this country but when it comes to hot food all that thoughts become cold’’.
Bus conductor came towards us and asked for tickets, we gave him money and then to my surprise he moved towards other passenger without giving us tickets. We waited for a while, but when we thought he was not going to give us tickets then a friend sitting next to me called him and asked for tickets. He answered with a smile, ‘‘what is the need of tickets, If I am there’’. Then he sat with us and started influencing us with his shitty talk and told us about his salary (Rs. 8,000) which was very fucking low in this too expensive country like India. Listening him talk I suggested that he should do some part time work to support his extra expenses (In my Opinion, some of them were useless) And He replied, ‘‘Brother I have started many businesses, but not a single one of them profits, after that I bribed an officer Rs. 500,000 and got this job as a conductor in Haryana Roadways which is not even permanent. I have spent tons of money of my family on me to earn money but, I always saw losses and losses’’. He stopped for a while and then started again, ‘‘When I was of your age, I also thought of eradicating corruption from this country but when it comes to hot food all that thoughts become cold’’.
Now bus stops and 2-3 more passengers came and he went towards them to ask them for their tickets and sat near them. And a loud discussion started between me and my friend about the complete scenario and the way that man was doing corruption which I felt was wrong, because I thought of minimizing the corruption in our country and I was very much obsessed with Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of ‘being the change’ but by letting him do corruption in front of my eyes I was supporting him do so which was not right. After seeing us discussing on that topic I don’t know what changed him but he came towards me and handed me tickets and with some anger in his eyes and said, ‘‘Take It!’’ and went towards driver’s seat.
I was happy at that point of time that I didn’t become part of this corruption web at least for once. When we were leaving the bus, the conductor was standing on the door and He gave me a bad look and said, ‘‘Are you happy now?’’ I smiled and replied, ‘‘Very Much’’ and left the bus with a sort of proud feeling on all of us.
I considered that incident as my very first and smallest victory against corruption and people doing it.
-Bharat
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