Life's Realisation

“My eye was hurting all day and I was feeling totally out of sorts.” he said yesterday while I sat in the garden sipping my tea after work. “May be your lenses are dirty.” I said “Here, check and see, but I remember cleaning it today” He said When I looked at the spectacles I had to stifle a giggle coz I found it sooo funny to notice that one of the lenses in the pair of spectacles had fallen out somewhere and had gone unnoticed all day. Only when I pointed it out to him that he realized the missing lens. I immediately armed myself with a torch and searched high and low in every nook and corner for the missing lens. Thankfully, before too long it was found unbroken on the lunch table.

Today, I got a bit later than usual and to add to it there was a slight traffic jam probably because of the rain. So, there I was creeping in every free spot that I could possibly find to get ahead of the next vehicle and get to work on time. At one point the lane closest to the pavement was free so I decided to use it so that I could over take a real slowcoach that was driving fit for a funeral. I accelerated and quickly overtook the vehicle. Alas! But in the process I accidentally gave a poor old soul a mud bath. I sure as hell felt and still feel reallyyyyy bad coz I know what it feels like to get drenched by careless motorists. I wish I could have taken it all back, but, I can’t. I wish I could have stopped and said sorry, but then again it would have only infuriated the guy totally. So I just continued on my way and vowed to be was extra careful and not to splash anyone again.

Last Friday some of my friends and myself went to visit buddy in Maharagama. I should admit that I am not familiar with the roads in Maharagama, so looking for the turn off to our friend’s place was quite a tedious affair. Nevertheless, after we went in circles we successfully reached our destination. On our way back I waited patiently to turn on to the main road from the Elhena Road. As soon as I got way I turned on to what I assumed was the road. To our horror there was a thud (loud noise) and the car bumped up and down, before I managed to bring the car to a halt. I assumed that I had hit a rather biggggg pothole; coz what else can you expect in the middle of a road. But, to our surprise we figured out that it was barrel drain. The barrel drain was covered with concrete slabs in the middle of the road but, one was dislodged and for my bad luck the car had hit the one dislodged. I don’t see why such issues are not reported and attended to by relevant authorities; because if it were