Survival
It was a Saturday evening. We witnessed the Big B phenomenon in the mall and the crowd was as expected. Big B was here to promote his film and it happened that we went on the same day, same time to watch another movie in the same multiplex.
Big B was on the third floor and was waving his hands on the enthusiastic crowd of admirers – there were cheer all over. The escalators were loaded and we were on the on the escalator to third floor and suddenly I realized there was a jam at the end of the escalator. I could see the risk of a stampede…people are just standing at the end of the escalator and all engrossed to catch a glimpse of their favorite actor. We were nearing the end and I can see people are falling over one another. I got aggressive and shouted “ MOVE, MOVE, GO,GO” and physically pushed the guy in front of me with a strong fist (did I give him a punch?, may be!) . Suddenly, the crowd realized what is happening and started moving and things settled. We reached the cozy seats in the theatre on time!
Back home, the kids were describing on how I pushed the crowd and made people move. I told them “listen, it is survival. There were times were you got to be really aggressive. I had been in crowds back in hometown during the temple festival. I use to cry as a kid, but my parents will make sure that I get into the temple through the crowd. Over a period of time, I learnt to survive in the crowd. If someone unnecessarily haggles, I ‘pinch’ them. So, you need to sense when there is danger and also become aggressive to ensure that we avert the danger!!” Kids were awed by my heroism (!!!)
Gosh, I hope the kids understand and learn these survival techniques – as parents, are we giving them enough opportunity to learn on how to handle these situations in life? Probably, parents are much more overprotective – time to make sure that we throw them in the water if we want them to learn swimming!!!
Posted on January 26, 2010, in Family and tagged Celebrities, Children, Escalator, Learnings, Life, Survival skills. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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