Men is the actor. Life is the stage.

Well I know what you are thinking… but this is the prelude to the following event.

The sun keeps playing hide and seek behind dark clouds not shining down brightly but offering glimpses of its majestic brilliance and grandeur, teasing, enlightening and spreading warmth. This game of hide and seek offers for a relatively comfortable drive and a very relaxed feeling. The strum of the guitar coupled with light drum beats and accompanied by a plethora of other musical instruments creates a very surreal environment in the car.

Zipping in and out of traffic making slow yet steady progress, sometimes frustrating, sometimes satisfaction, all this a part and parcel of highway driving. Joyous and peaceful keeping up a decent pace with time, kept thinking to myself woah, this is proceeding more smoothly than I thought.

Well talk of speaking too fast, just as I thought of that sentence did I get stuck behind an eitcher truck. Like all trucks found on the Indian highway this one too was no exception when it came to being grandly decked. Strikingly what caught the attention was not the usual Blow Horn inscription or the unusual ornaments hanging from every available hook, but the advice, “Men is the actor. Life is the Stage”.

Crawling behind this mammoth truck I couldn’t help but wonder in amazement at this statement. Leaving the truck behind and zooming down the highway and trying to get a place to overtake an ambassador car actually brought the little proverb read earlier back to life. Ahead of the car was this ambassador car swerving and pretty much taking up the whole road. Trying to overtake him only proved to be too dangerous and undertaking.

Coming to the conclusion I decide to trail this guy rather than try to be overly adventurous and stay a few car spaces behind him. Pretty sure he is going to do something amusing we watch patiently. The guy is driving too fast and swerving from side to side is not a very comfortable situation. My guess proved to be true when only after a couple of minutes he overtakes a maruthi van from the left and cuts in. Misjudging the speed of the van the ambassadors tail gate hits the maruthi vans front and the van shakes a bit, but continues on for a little while.

I was thnking to myself, man! people have become really tolerant and the absence of road rage impressive. But I guess I was wrong cause a little while later the van starts accelerating and chasing the car. I guess the people in the van were a little shook up over the whole incident that just took place and were regaining their bearings. Pretty soon the whole scene looked like a scene from a movie with one guy chasing the other and trying to flag the car, still swerving, by throwing water bottles and cutting off the highway. The people from the car get down and throw their wheel spanner at the ambassador and misses, guess the guy too was out of form like our cricket stars… this looses them precious time as the car cheats the road block and carries on, speeding to the next turn to their hometown before the van guys catch them. A couple of kilometers down the road they turn off and so does the maruthi van. Unfortunately I can only guess the after effect and not give a clearer picture as the scene got shifted into a village road nearby and we still had a long way to go.

But still the fun in actually getting to watch a thrilling action sequence which was very much in charater of the line,”MEN IS THE ACTOR. LIFE IS THE STAGE”.