Steel Happy Express!

25th Sep 2017

Here comes the time again for a joyride in Steel Express. Though its pity that so many small cities around has evolved with flights connecting to all metros but still the STEEL remains the last mile connectivity for Jamshedpurians. Even Bangladesh has 8 very small towns air connected with Dhaka.

Travelling in STEEL is a different experience all together. Before the train has started, you know where the person sitting next to you is coming from. Even before you reach Santargachi you know where he lives in Jamshedpur. By the time you reach Kharagpur you have already started paying for each other’s Alu chop and Chai. And no surprises if suddenly you bump against someone with whom you played cricket 20 years back or an old crush. Today I am in the train and just met an uncle living next lane to my house.

I see it a stark difference to so many flights I have taken both domestic and international. Not a single flight I can remember of; where I had made any interaction with the person sitting next to me. We are busy in our professional scores no doubt about it. But how can we busy in a flight when you have nothing to do. The "killer" what's app is off, and the "sucker " inbox is offline . Still we are so busy we can't say a Hello to the person sitting next to us. Though the behaviors might see a sudden change with the companion’s gender and race!

Guys there are 2 bank accounts we manage in our world. One is the Currency account and other the Relational account, with family friend’s colleagues, neighbors, acquaintance. I have never seen anybody ignoring anything that adds to the currency account. But what about opportunities where you can build up the Relational account.

When a person sits next to you a flight or train, imagine it's that ONE chance in the millions of options all the person be seated in that train or plane. Think about the unlimited permutations and combination in which you all be seated. You can explore numbers of reason for that only person to be seated next to you. It's that one chance to get aquatinted to the person next to you and perhaps add a friend more to your life. And this is the chance you have today. You will never meet him again in your life!