Its 5.00 in the morning... I'm writing up a post with a post with happy title and DAZED pic!! Dont mistake me for severely crazy or sleep deprived maniac!! Today, February the 28th is the first anniversary of that incident that dazed me up. A shocking event....one of the biggest accidents i met with ....Errr..oh no.... or rather THE BIGGEST accident that "WE"( me and my best friend Glenn) had met with!...Wondering why reminiscing the gory incident?? Herez why!! Check out the hour-by-hour of what happened and how!28th Feb,2008 8:00PM: It was the normal hot,humid and irritating chennai day/night ( well it dosent matter whether its day or night, winter or summer in chennai ... ITS ALWAYS BLOODY HOT!!!). After wrapping up for the day @ apiz , i was just planning to leave for home.. Oh and there, just then i realize i had to pay my mobile bill.(as usual, i postponed it to the last day and it was today-or-outgoing cut kinda scenario!!!) So the plan changed and i called up ma friend, ma bhai GLENN Fernandes saying i'll be late and explained the scene at hand! ( for starters, glenn and me go back a long way since the college days , he's a brother and ma best bud!) He being a shweto popped the idea of goin together. Great i thought: pay the bill , Go to the beach restaurant, Have a great dinner and get back home... Mid week bash!!!. So here we go our heros set out for a nice lil fun evening!!!....
28th Feb,2008 9:00PM: After puffing out some crazy bucks on the auto wala ANNAS and cursing them to the core, we finally paid the bill and got out... kool enough for a walk to the beach i thought!.. So we set out to the beach and subsequent dinner.
28th Feb,2008 10:00PM: We ordered our fav food ( getting theek thaak khana in chennai is a task in it self u c!) and time passofied there....The time went by quick and even before realizing, we were done with the sumptuous meal. Happy and content that the cooking and cleaning chores could be done without @ home for that day ( YES - we cooked!!) we set out to home..
28th Feb,2008 11:00PM: Considering that we lived far off from the city, it took 1 long hour almost to reach our place.Not withstandig the clutter and the moanings of the rickety auto we kept talking and whaling away our time. Every thing seemed fine till then....the script was pretty normal and mudane. We were about a Kilometer away fron our drop and suddenly...
THUD!! DHAD !!! before we realized, the auto leapt in the air and somersaulted. We were gyrating inside the auto like some grains rotating in a mixer-grinder! bodies crashing and heads bumping inside it, the auto came crashing down head first and collapsed taking us with it. The impact rattled the metal chunk, that we got stuck inside the auto and it kept bumping and dragging on the road . Unable to free ourselves , my head kept bumping on the road like a tennis ball. After about dragging for 10 feet or so, the auto; now a mere shattered metal chunk came to a screeching halt!! The momentum threw us out and i came crashed out onto the road. A lorry jus zoomed past me just a second after i jolted out from the road. Thank heavens! If it had come a second before, i'd have been cut into pieces!!!!!!
I got up and checked for glen : He was there sitting on the road brusied legs and hands bleeding like hell.!! looking at him, i could not even asses the damage done to maself as the only thing that stuck me was taking him to the hospital. So here i was doing a resuce act( YES- there were bloody 50 people surrounding us and just WATCHING TAMASHA!) . Limping and crawling with gelnn on one shoulder, i reached the hospital finally!( we took another auto, and the that B*****d was bargaining at that time too!! heck !). We reached the hospital and right then, i collapsed!!
The Next time i regain my senses, i see glenn beside me, hads platered and legs being attended to. I was told that i had internal injuries on the head chest and elbow. I could sense that coz it was paining like hell and there was no sign of a bruise!... A ct-scan of head and an x-ray were suggested--JUST TO MAKE SURE NOTHING IS WRONG!.. i denied saying if anything looked wrong i'd come back the next day! The onli calming effect for me was the decleration from the doc saying glenn had no major injuries except bruises on the hand. I sighed in relief, for atleast he was ok.
Finally with the help of a couple of friends, we returned home: An end to the dreadful day!.
29th Feb,2008 1:00AM (wee hours): Unable to sleep and tired of moaning withn pain, i and glen started talking, reflecting on the incident that had occured . We reflected on our time spent in college and the good, bad and ugly situations we faced together. We called up another friend of ours back in HYD to give him the flash news : spoke to him and then finally when every ounce of energy had saturated, we fell asleep!!
Okay.... agreed that was one helluva incident, but why glorify the gory day ??? Well there were some tremendous lessons learnt on that day !
(1) You are alloted credit balance of some definite days to live and come what may u are destined to live them completly!( It would have taken just that second for the lorry to cut me apart- BUT NO I WAS DESTINED TO LIVE!)
(2) Come what may, whatever happens the life goes on: If u are down pick urself up and start moving. Help URSELF.
(3) You never know when u'll get a call, so LIVE HAPPY TILL YOU'r ALIVE!
(4)If you are happy and hale today its coz of evry good deed you might have done some where to some one. Good wishes do save you!
(5) The last and most important * Never go in an auto, When the driver is inebriated!- NEVER NEVER! ( we only found that out when it all happened!)
Awrite 5.59 now!! gotta crash( No..not dat..SLEEP!) .....
take care and god bles!!
P.S : For those of you wondering how many days did it took for me to be alright .Well it took almost 3 weeks to be fine. And yea even today i have a bump and a cut on ma head!!!!!
Peace
rammy
