Write-Turn 16 - The Binary at Namma Metro – The two kinds

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary - Buddha

Waiting for the Metro in the station, my eyes were fixed on the tracks. Two Iron- lines stretched to eternity. With the first phase fully functional, Namma Metro looks highly successful. The Bangalore commuters can now be broadly divided in to two. Those using the Metro and the other polluting the environment.

How amazed we were when we first heard decades back that computers run on Binary system. Life too, sometimes works on the same concept. 

A beggar confronting a person who refuses to give him anything says “there should be only two kinds of people in the world, one who begs and the other who gives them”.

I Got in to Metro and started seeing two kinds of people all around. In the station there were two kinds of people, those who were getting in to Metro and the other, getting out. The ones inside were just travelers who were going to belong to the second kind of trying to get out at some point of time.

For the Metro staff, there were only two kinds of people, the Purple lanes ones or the Green. For the security, there were again two kinds of people, those whose bags needed to be checked and those who were bare handed and not to be checked.

Inside the Metro, there were two kinds of people. Those who got the seats and those who did not. Among the ones who got the seats there were two kinds. One who offered their seats when ladies or elderly came and the other who did not.

Among the people who did not offer seats, there were two kinds of people. Those who did not care whatsoever and the other who had a flash of guilt inside.

Among the who felt the guilt, were of two kinds. One, who let their guilt pass and remained the same. The other who let the guilt prick their hearts and offered seats to the next set of ‘deserved’.

These ‘offerings’ were of two kinds. One, a willing, helping offer by getting up from the seat. The other, not so willing but an inquiring one. ”Do you really want to sit” kind, with a stiff face.

When the offer was made, there were two kinds of reactions. Accepting and the non-accepting. Among the ladies who accepted the offer (I mean the seats) there were of two kinds. Those who smiled and thanked. The other who did not think smile was necessary as seats were their constitutional right.

There were two kinds among those who smiled. Those with genuine smile and the other with just the customary smile.

Immersed in these thoughts, I forgot for a moment which ‘kind’ I belonged to. Then the ‘getting out’ kind of people brought me to my senses.

Out of the Metro, there were again two kinds of people. Those climbing the steps for fitness and others using the escalator for fineness. Among the people who took stairs, there were……….….Oh, this will go on.

This write up will have two kind of responses. First from those who read till the end and other….

Thanks for being the ‘first kind’.