A lesson well learnt

Lessons are the most integral part of growing-up and well the practical lessons are much more valuable to us than the theoretical knowledge.as it has been said that life is a learning process and we learn a novel thing every minute of our life. How can one forget the lesson to be learnt from falling from a cycle that one should never give up no matter what .But do we really remember these lessons or just forget them as only one time inspirational. Something very similar to this happened to me one fine evening .I was going back to my hostel from my aunt’s ,I took a bus though I normally prefer a metro ride, but it being a Sunday and the buses being less crowded I decided to have a change of palette .So I took the bus which was, owing to my bad luck fairly crowded. So,I somehow managed to balance my way through the crowd and stand properly .It was going to be a long ride and the thought of standing throughout it was giving me the creeps. Anyway, I tried thinking of good things like taking a hot shower and watching romantic movies, tucked in my bed after that unfortunate ride, luckily for me, the weather was very pleasant and nothing like the otherwise humid climate of Kolkata. So,the ride took its course and so did the people but still I could not get a seat and had to literally pray to god to make any of the sitting passengers to get down but in vain !So ,well as I was trying to assure myself that everything was going fine and how I was better of in that bus than sweating it in the metro. So that is when I realized that there is an empty seat right across the driver but no body seemed to be sitting on it ,there was a man standing right next to it with a great entourage of luggage but even he seemed to be ignoring it, and I was a good deal far from it and with the bus shaking its assets at even the slightest of cue .it was going to take me a lot more than my already drained legs and arms. We were a good 12 people standing uncomfortably, looking unabashedly at every sitting passenger but every one was blissfully ignoring the presence of that stranded place.Even I thought that maybe the seat was broken or maybe it was just visible to me !Just then the bust stopped at one juncture ,a lady got up and swiftly ran her eyes around and saw the unoccupied seat and deftly went and took the seat next to the driver’s. Mission accomplished. And we the lesser mortals took a great effort in hiding our disappointment, and maintained a straight face throughout the journey.I kept thinking about it till late that night.It was just another affair in my everyday life,but it reinforced that basic lesson "winners dont do different things,they just do it differently."