The crowded compartment


Sometimes, something happen that forces you to think about what we are doing. The things are always there at the back of our mind, but in a bit to avoid thinking on it, we tend to just keep it somewhere.

It was as usual a very normal day and the same crowded first class ladies compartment. Everybody jumped in to catch a seat and then settled themselves. The entire seat gets filled up within 2 stations. A very thin, old lady then got into the train. Nobody offered her a seat, I couldn’t take it anymore- I offered her a seat.
But this incident left me thinking.
Have we become so inhumane that we have forgotten to respect our elders also?
We are so insensitive that even when we know that the lady is old and she don’t have the strength or the stamina to face the crowd, then too we just sit and stare.
The mentality has become such that it’s the old lady’s fault that she got into the early morning crowded train- at such an age its best for her to sit at home and relax.
We tend to blame the younger generation for not having any respect to elders, but when we ourselves have forgotten that – how can we expect them to learn it ??
I don’t know- am I becoming too idealistic ??