Mind your Mind: A Prologue by self

I am not famous enough to get another famous person to write a prologue for me. So, I am writing it myself. 

On a wonderful Thursday mid-morning I set my foot out of the house venturing into a very beautiful Bangalore weather. It was drizzling and there was a cool breeze. My mind was busy thinking about the challenges that lay ahead. These were not challenges of life but challenges that I would face making my way through the roads of Bangalore. 

 

Bangalore traffic during office hours can be overwhelming. We have added quite a lot of cars to the road and that has changed the dynamics. Easy availability of car loans and peer pressure has resulted in thousands and thousands of cars filling up the streets of Bangalore. Bangalore roads were never meant for cars. It has always been a 2 Wheeler city and will continue to be a 2 Wheeler city. However, social pressure has led to us using 4 Wheelers instead of bike or scooter. I am one of those culprits too. I love riding a bike but I do use a car much more frequently than I should.

 

As I got off the residential part of the city to more populated main roads, i started experiencing the above said challenge. I am not a terrible driver or novice to Bangalore roads. But the density of vehicles on the roads can overwhelm even the best of the drivers. Public transport buses, auto rickshaws and taxis have a driving culture of their own. Every other driver has imbibed the same culture and taken it to new levels. 2 Wheelers are a different phenomena altogether. Even while you are standing in traffic signals they zip past you, as if they are riding on empty roads.         

 

There is no dearth of action on Bangalore roads. Most people would see it as ‘chaos‘. Social media is full of articles on this chaos in Bangalore roads. From your place of origin to your destination, the challenges you face with auto rickshaws who appear from nowhere, bikes which squeeze past even in the narrowest spaces, public transport buses who use their size to intimidate you, taxis which comes so close your vehicle almost giving you a heart attack. 

 

Our minds are not different than Bangalore roads. We have so much bustling thoughts. Thoughts resembling public transport buses in sheer size, reckless thoughts resembling auto rickshaws, sudden thoughts resembling 2 Wheelers and dangerous thoughts resembling taxis.

 

The minute you start your day, you are directly teleported to a traffic of thoughts resembling Bangalore roads. Relationship issues, spouse problems, office worries, money issues crowd your mind just like all those vehicles in Bangalore traffic. 

 

The blogs under this banner intend to talk about everyday traffic in our mind. I don't know if I will be able to give a solution but I will at least let the readers know that they are not alone facing the problems. This will have my personal experiences and experiences of people that I have known. 

 

Let us together learn to “MIND OUR MIND”….