The Rush Hour - Golden Hour of my Life...
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As you guys knew, I mostly wish to paint my post with the content which impacts me a lot. I will share one such incident experienced by an IT professional. The blog follows, like he is narrating the true incident happened.
It was my Birthday, a day I am sure to get-up from bed very early 5.00 AM, get blessings from my mom, wishes from family and friends, as-usual bla-bla-bla. Go to temple and ask for generic and specific wish/wants. Immediately I can see eyebrows raised, some read meaning of generic/specific?
Especially my friends. Don’t let your wings of imagination to go beyond the proportion. I meant generic means wishes like “No/less accidents everyday, No/less corruptions, Less patients in all hospitals, soon should be cured, No defective Births, etc”. Specific ones mean wishes of well-being my friends and families.
My Gods are beyond religion and happen to be everything…I never let thoughts limited in this terms and open to accept everything may be Jesus, Ganesha, Madha, Allah, Mahavir, Shridi Sai, Image/idols of everything comes on clipping around my undetermined capacity/RAM of so called human mind ..God exist or not, doesn’t matter but I believe thoughts with strong positive intensions/wishing good for someone does have greater gravity and make our life more genuine and meaningful. Normally I seldom pray but on ambulance/accident in front of me, my eyes get closed without my knowledge and starts praying for some time…..Makes me happy and rejuvenated.
I had a new stylish fasttrack watch from brother, new Shirt from sister, charged-up and went to office, though I believe simple things are always special. Same old story, cake cutting… song…bla-bla-bla. Wishes from good people.. I wanna ask permission from my manager to return home early as family would wait for me for simple silent internal family dinner/celebration. I love this truly. But some issue in office kept me reluctant to ask this. It got solved due to onsite server problem but bit late.
Let me come to the crux of the content which I wanna discuss today. I returned from office at 9.00 night.
When I crossed half-way through, I felt full of darkness with no streetlights on highway. My bike speed came-down quickly from 70 to 40 like a ramp-down of resources in IT team in software arena with no prior signal J J J. I heard scratchy sound beside me….Two guys racing among each-other crossing me like at tracer bulllet with minimum 100 km/hr speed.
Few Seconds, I heard a huge sound similar to a boiler rolling from Thermal power plant fell down, followed by a skidding noice…….very very close to me its just a 4-5 meters from me. I am clueless of what happened but the sound automatically made my bike to bring into standstill position. No-body is around. Full dark. Deserted…
I stopped my Pulsar bike on side of the road and walked towards the accidents spot. I asked for help. There were few two wheelers crossing me…they saw me parking my vehicle aside and they knew I am trying to help them. They slowed down….Thought they were gonna help me on this. One of the biker said “ Get out of this place within someone comes or you will be questioned…..move your bike….boss”. …..he went immediately…
Other than him….No body stopped…..Everyone was busy not helping……
I was in dilemma. Judges in my mind are arguing. “There is no one to help here. What if you are considered reason for accident? What about questions. Just get back to home, family/friends waiting for B’day celebration?, What if the condition is too bad?, If u leave this place, nothing to u,“…the thoughts were handshaking and echoing with sounds/words created by a person who spoke to me earlier to escape.
Other side of argument, “Even if you go home, you are not going to be happy about leaving this place. It will remain with you forever. Everyone cannot do everything, every one can do something. Power to do something, Do something…Do something….. what if they are one among ur family/friends?. What if you save atleast one here…..” .....
Then, I was marching towards the spot…..First, Since it was dark and high way, speed of the vehicles is not less than 80 and no one can locate something has happened. I started flashing light from mobile to indicate the vehicles to deflect…. I used my new watch J as a reflector…….I can see the vehicles slowing down and moving aside and understanding my signals as something has happened. But nobody stopped for a while.
With my mobile flashing, saw the victims, two bikers and a passer-by was thrown out on the road. One bike in center of the road and the other bike hit the edge the road and hanging. The commuter, who was crossing the road, seriously injured. One of the biker had some conscious but blood oozing from his nose and head….He was shouting the person who crossed the road with all erotic bad words which my ears couldn’t even hear.
Immediatley checked the other biker he was unconscious, thickened blood flowing on the road…His legs injured like rotten tomato…pathetic…closed my eyes…. but could feel the pulse…could see serious injuries on head. The passer-by was literally dead, had no signs of life. I was asking him, ,shaking him continuously… asking the contact number of family members….no help….Checked his pockets… …...But I could see no serious injuries on him, may be….doubted internal ones…… literally thought he was dead.
No mobile. I got a cell number of his family from his wallet. The person is literally 50 years old. I didn’t think anything just dialed casually. But ones the ring goes…..I don’t know what to say…..My head and heart is trembling….experienced electrical fluctuations as lightning within my body…full of emotions….head to toe, I felt something like fear…I cant explain that feeling….My thoughts rolling…like images of the someone’s happy family hearing this news…their kids…etc….thrasing like anything…. I was really clueless about how am I going to convey this single…..
I heard a lady voice, I assumed it to be his wife…She sounded “ Yes who is this?”. I am clueless of what to say. Immediately I asked I don’t how I did it “ call your son” ( with a gut feeling that they would have son).I said to his son “ Your father had a minor injury and met with an accident. Don’t worry and he is safe” and conveyed info of spot. I don’t know How I said he is alive and safe.
Very terrifying…
I started calling 1066, Apollo ambulance care. They asked the spot…and said they couldn’t make it within 30 minutes as I my voice sounded crying as very second is critical. I said you start from the place anyway let me check other options. Then I called 108 immediately, it went to central helpdesk of tamilnadu…..They only asked 2 questions:
1.
Where
is the accident spot exactly?
2. Whats my mobile number.( immediately the call was
diverted to near-by accident spot helpline). Then I had a call from helpline.
They asked me the same 2 questions. I answered
and with bit of hesitation told my name “ I am ......so and so”. (to be open and
frank since I gave mobile no I was bit doubtful that I may be questioned
further by police or anyone but thought “once plunged, no second thought, lets
face it anyway”).
I saw another person(assume his name is Raja) coordinating immediately out of the blue. He started to “Tell leave some space to victim for air”, “Get some water to victims…” , Re-arranged the people for air circulation. Felt happy I had a company to execute it. Then I relaxed a bit since there is someone to help further. Immediately I had a personal call, finished and came after few minutes. I don’t know what happened in-between.
Then I moved towards the 50 year old man, I could see some signs of live…his hands and legs shaken. Immediatley started asking some asking him some questions, he couldn’t answer but felt he is out of danger and his shoulder had blood stains. I saw his head, absolutely no problem, no further injury. He is safe.
After a while, could see crowd on the spot. Now I just asked to check the other two people wallet, pockets, etc to get the information to their families. Immediately they checked the pockets…They took some info from the biker who was unconscious…I was bit surprised…since I was the first person who was on the spot, I saw mobile fell on road beside this biker. I was re-collecting the image I clicked on the spot through my eyes. Completely surprised as I couldn’t find the mobile again.
They asked the other biker, who is seriously injured but little conscious. They checked pockets nothing was there…People asked him tell some info as we couldn’t anything from pockets. With feeble voice he said his mobile number.
We dialed the mobile number….. tring tring…………….ringing………………..Here is the twist in the story.
We got mild ringing sound somewhere…we turned….We saw a guy moving slowly out of the scene and sound slowly diminishing….followed…he hesitated a bit, we found mobile in his pocket. We were shocked…I didn’t expect this. We found the other person’s mobile too in his(Raja) pocket.
In-between, 108-Ambulance came immediately…I saw a driver, a doctor ready for the treatment and helper. They got the stretcher put these people in the ambulance. They questioned no one. I went to ambulance crew and introduced myself to them “I am "XXX" who called 108”.
They said replied “ We don’t need your names, we ask where is the accident spot and just just a mobile number(to contact incase we couldn’t reach the spot). Nobody called me after I returned home except 1066 who consulted whether ambulance arrived. No problem.
Returned home, with a sense of great sigh of relief, felt nothing special we did other than just being human. Had a great Birthday with sense of saving some life which can only be felt and expressed with no words. Returned home.
- · Saving Life is simple now. Even a child, girl or anyone can do this. Amendments to laws are effective and supportive to people who help now. All you need is not guts, just be human.
- · When we call a victim’s home, be sensible. In this, the victim had no signs of life for 20 min but got back later. So don’t be hasty. Avoid shocks.
- · Racing not only makes our life dangerous, it grabs other innocent life. In this case, 50 years old man, his family, his child:- may be girl to get married, a guy who thrives to settle, etc
- · Understand Bike/Car is just a vehicle to transport you nothing much..simple.
- · Beware of people around who can be fake of helping you. They take even accident as an opportunity to loot your belonging..Very shame. Cheap/fake people are around. Be watchful. They are everywhere.
- · Take a judicial call, listen to the mind voice, demarcate right/wrongs quickly. If I have escaped from the scene, I am sure It would have impacted my peace for lifetime.
The next day, I sat in a park and thinking about the minutes during the same time and …..Everyday is a day…I just spent 30-40 minutes of my time which was critical to someone and made me truly happy. Those 30 min, If I am in office, would have coded for euro? Would have played Table Tennis if I am free? Or In home, Just would have had a chat with my friends, or hearing a song of my choice, playing cricket for hours. But Those minutes, felt very meaningful, most valuable hours of my life.
Now
Whenever I see an accident, I will get
into the scene, and do what simple things I can do. Zero hesitation. Everyone know that first hour of accident/attack is critical to save a life. I
drafted this mail, just to share information that everyone of us can do this and
enjoy the experience and lot of genuine people are doing/done it even when law
was not supportive earlier. They just see human life not the problem that follows later. I feel small in-front of them. Simply putting a fight between head and heart. Thrilling moments..
As always Heart won it over Head and remembered the below words.
As always Heart won it over Head and remembered the below words.
"A good heart is better than all heads in the World".
Friendly,
Dhana
