u/GainUsual1420

I’m currently on a bus traveling from Delhi to somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, and something happened that has me genuinely confused.

A woman boarded the bus and ended up taking the seat next to me. While talking, she mentioned that she had missed her earlier bus and was now traveling alone at night. What surprised me was that there were other seats available that, at least from a safety perspective, seemed much better than sitting next to a complete stranger.

I even suggested a couple of times that she move to a seat where she'd have more space and easier access to get up or leave if she ever felt uncomfortable. In a worst case scenario, being boxed into a window seat beside someone you don't know doesn't seem like the safest choice. She kept saying she'd switch later, but never did.

Out of curiosity, I asked why she was traveling under these circumstances in the first place.Apparently, her husband had called her and threatened to consume poison if she didn't come home immediately.

At that point I was just sitting there wondering what was going on. On one hand, it sounds like she's dealing with an extremely manipulative and emotionally immature husband. On the other hand, I couldn't understand some of the decisions she was making herself. If you're already traveling alone at night and feel compelled to make the journey, wouldn't you at least take every precaution available?

Maybe I'm missing some cultural or psychological aspect here, but the whole situation left me puzzled. Has anyone else witnessed something similar where a person's sense of urgency completely overrides basic safety considerations? Mind you I'm a guy and a complete stranger and it's a bus where you take seats through reservation, she's sitting on MY seat which is literally crammed inside whole the other where I'm sitting on has a space to run and exit without any issue Guys an update- I just talked with her and I'm hating on her husband now, she's fighting a disease herself and she came for treatment of that disease but her husband forced her to come in such emergency because his brother is having a brain hemorrhage and if something happened to him he want his family to be together, like mthereker what if your own wife died travelling like this?? Who's gonna take her responsibility😭don't you know what is the state of UP??

I still remember the first day of school

how vivid you were,as if the world had chosen

all its colors for you alone.

I never realized the boy who walked up to me

and asked,

“Will you be my friend?” would become

the most important friend I’d ever have.

Now memories arrive in waves,

quite violent and suddenas if tsunami striking the shores of Osaka.

And my mind wears their aftermath

in the same manner a city wears ruin

flooded and shaken.

Sometimes it hurts to remember

that I cannot sit beside you

in classrooms anymore,

cannot laugh loud enough

for teachers to look at us

like we had committed a felony

simply for being happy.

Yet whenever I replay

the film of those years,

I still find traces of green

in the Sahara of growing up.

I wish we could sit together again,

laugh the same reckless way we once did.

Now all that remains

is a guy reshaped by society and time.

But in my eyes,

you will always be

the boy who tutored my lonely sky to become a constellation,

the boy who found light for me

whenever my world grew dark.

And even though time carried us apart the way rivers separate drifting paper boats,

somewhere beneath those waters,

our memories still find each other

the way old songs find their way back home.

I still remember the first day of school

how vivid you were,as if the world had chosen

all its colors for you alone.

I never realized the boy who walked up to me

and asked,

“Will you be my friend?” would become

the most important friend I’d ever have.

Now memories arrive in waves,

quite violent and suddenas if tsunami striking the shores of Osaka.

And my mind wears their aftermath

in the same manner a city wears ruin

flooded and shaken.

Sometimes it hurts to remember

that I cannot sit beside you

in classrooms anymore,

cannot laugh loud enough

for teachers to look at us

like we had committed a felony

simply for being happy.

Yet whenever I replay

the film of those years,

I still find traces of green

in the Sahara of growing up.

I wish we could sit together again,

laugh the same reckless way we once did.

Now all that remains

is a guy reshaped by society and time.

But in my eyes,

you will always be

the boy who tutored my lonely sky to become a constellation,

the boy who found light for me

whenever my world grew dark.

And even though time carried us apart the way rivers separate drifting paper boats,

somewhere beneath those waters,

our memories still find each other

the way old songs find their way back home

I remember you walking in my heart like the cherry blossom of April on very first day of the school

but now you've became an oasis, just shimmering at a distance,
somewhere my mind keeps wandering

in every class i searched for your eyes

only to get the hope which with just one look of yours dies

i tried to be the bravest soldier around you

fighting against the world all by myself

only to be left alone and deserted

I tried wooing silk from my mouth that I know would fray

but I kept going until it started toring me apart myself

I followed you religiously like a monk worships ganges

only to realise that I was dumped in drain even without touching body of shiva

now that we are done your text that I received today ignited a fire in my heart

once again I got lost in the film I directed in my head

where you'll chose this vase once instead of the urn

but I was wrong, you are actually poisonous like ivy on a tree

now that I have actually realised u are not the little mermaid I loved

but infact a siren that's leading the broken ship captain after the sea

I've lost my legs trying to catch up to you

I thought if I ran faster you'd see me but all this time I was chasing a ghost of my past

a shadow that never turned around

please forgive me if possible

So I’m closing the windows now

letting the night take back

the light I kept burning for you.

I wrote it for someone I used to admire never wrote anything like this before and surely it does feel quite great, please drop your honest feedbacks thank you

I remember you walking in my heart like the cherry blossom of April on very first day of the school

but now you've became just an oasis, just something my kind keeps drifting to

in every class i searched for your eyes

only to get the hope which with just one look of yours dies

i tried to be the bravest soldier around you

fighting against the world all by myself

only to be left alone and deserted

I tried wooing silk from my mouth that I know would fray

but I kept going until it started tearing me apart myself

I followed you religiously like a monk worships ganges

only to realise that I was dumped in drain even without touching body of shiva

now that we are done your text that I received today ignited a fire in my heart

once again I got lost in the film I directed in my head

where you'll chose this vase once instead of the urn

but I was wrong, you are actually poisonous like ivy on a tree

now that I have actually realised u are not the little mermaid I loved

but infact a siren that's leading the broken ship captain after the sea

I've lost my legs trying to catch up to you

I thought if I ran faster you'd see me but all this time I was chasing a ghost of my past

a shadow that never turned around

please forgive me if possible

So I’m closing the windows now

letting the night take back

the light I kept burning for you.