Adjudicated Parallels

People in everyday dealings with others have a lot of misconceptions and assumptions. They believe these from their heart. The outcome of it can scare them and it only happens when they act out of sheer gullibility. Being at your wittiest best and expecting it beforehand can do wonders. I was privy to one such instance when an old lady was standing in a queue. The moment I saw her, there was an assumption from my side. Later, the assumption was found out to be wrong. To be precise, I thought the old woman was a sociable person and a lady with gentle manners. This was because of her age. She was quite a quarrelsome woman. The moment some people from a VIP background entered into the office she was in queue, this woman created a ruckus. I was flabbergasted and her quite irate behaviour put many to shock. This lady was even ready to beat up the people who blocked her into getting through the VIP counter and stirring trouble. This is not about old people and many instances can be fo...

Many people around are unaware of the repercussions surrounding the bliss they are in about crime. They think that if they remain watchful like the sentinels of prominent people, nothing untoward will happen to them. According to them, only gullible people are victims of such crimes. I was one of these people and an incident shook me out of my reverie. A brief narration follows: While traveling to my workplace daily I thought that a cell phone placed in the front pocket of my denims won't be stolen. But I was so wrong. One day while commuting in the bus, my phone worth ten grand was stolen and I could do nothing about it. This was because the bus in which the theft took place was changed by me to another in the course of travel. As trying to get to the thief was out of question, I reached home all decked up to face the music from my family- it was gifted to me by my siblings. Anything can happen to people anywhere in any region. Being blissfully unaware doesn't bode we...