While in school, we walked everywhere. We walked to the classroom, we walked to the dormitory, we walked to our place of dining, we walked to the playground and we walked (around 4-6 kms) to the Mall Road and Chowrasta (Darjeeling’s Shopping arcade).

Five years later; I ride everywhere.
I ride to my classroom, I ride to my house, I ride to the place I eat my meals, I ride to play football and I ride to the nearest shopping mall (around 7 Kms from my residence in Pune).

Walking (apart from the health benefits) gave me the joy of talking and interacting with my friends, observing the world around me and feeling the touch of nature; but while riding, I curse the person who just cut my path, I curse the municipality cooperation for the well dug up roads, I curse the auto-rickshaw for the smoke it blows on my face, not realizing that I ain’t doing any better.

I ride daily here, in fact walking is more of a luxury, but back then getting a ride in a motor vehicle happened once in every 3-4 months (during our semester break) !

Sadly, it’s only the desperate or the unprivileged who can be seen walking. The ‘privileged’ think it to be a waste of time and a pain in this sweltering heat and growing pollution (ironical).

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