Zeal versus age...."The cold winter breeze"

It was a Wednesday evening, winding up the hectic day at office,with the December winter being really cold, chill running down everyone's spine, people on the streets were covered with shawls and wind-cheaters, as i rode back from work to home observing lot of people their way back from work to home to meet with their loved ones after a day long schedule. I just felt the air inside office was extremely cold due to the air-conditioned system till I was exposed to the natural cold winter breeze that almost made me go numb.

The evening looked pleasant with the cold winter breeze drawing a lot of young college going couple together, birds finding their way back home remembering their younger ones, dogs cuddling themselves cozily on the sand heap which usually chased the riders,   the priest at temple performing his usual rituals waiting religiously for the devotees to shell out their pockets. I just looked at all of these wondering how things were defined to be; and wondered if the priest really chanted the verses as they were supposed to be or skipped most of them leaving people confused as he trembled in cold, I moved with the traffic laughing looking at the priest's plight waiting for devotees being careless of the cold breeze that hit his half bare body. The traffic was getting really worse and I prayed the lord that I reached home early and went on accelerating non-stop but with periodic and continuous brakes that definitely slowed my pace.

I followed the traffic till a point, where there were lot of vehicles packed without anybody honking for their way, after a couple of minutes lifting the wiser away from my helmet I got up and leaned forward to check what was happening learning that no vehicle owners made any noise against a car driver who was trying best to apply a reverse brake to go backwards, leaving me dumb-struck. I waited to see some progress and understood that it was all in vain. I kept quiet too as I had to follow the fellow-riders and drivers, I waited for some more time for our skilled driver to apply all the strength and intelligence to man-oeuvre and get away with the steering wheel but to my luck I couldn't sense an inch movement from the time I witnessed the incidence, I was getting restless waiting and was getting annoyed as none of them protested, cursing my fate I again stood quietly turning off the ignition choke. It was fifteen minutes by then and then suddenly there was a cheer from the crowd, I heard everyone applaud and scream cheers and then the vehicles slowly started to move, wavering their hands with a ear to ear smile at the car driver who finally had managed to move.Least bothered about the strange act assuming that the driver being a celebrity, I happened to pass the car while I heard a trembling voice from within the car, Thanks for your co-operation people. I was stunned with the sight of our skilled driver, My assumption went for a toss, the driver was a grand-ma aged about 80 trying to learn driving. I paused for a minute and smiled gleefully, got down from my vehicle but I guess I missed granny :):):) she was too fast while she accelerated leaving behind real dumb-founded with the zeal she had.

Granny grew old only by her age and not by heart, she still wanted to learn driving :):):) Cheers to the zealous Grand ma :):):)