Riding a Bike Being a Girl...

Its very natural as breathing for me to connect me as a human before I put on something else like Girl, Indian etc. So it’s pretty normal for me to go out, ride a bike and do things on my own without triggering anything outside.

This was the case happened last week, a dark evening, about 7.15pm, I was riding home from my class. It was a tedious route and so the traffic but that day it was less crowded. I was heading towards my home, about 5 kilometres afar of my home, a bike of two guys where going in dead speed ahead of me. I’m usually pretty normal in my speeding but I’m less patient in following a dead speeding vehicle in safe and less crowded road. Those guys where going in the centre not considering about the vehicles behind.

I went slowly behind them and listened whether they’d leave some space for the vehicles behind or will they move fast. But no sign of the two happened so I seek to show them there are vehicles behind and so I moved up to them on their left (where even no space for overtaking is left and no place in the right too) without the intention of overtaking them through left but in the intention of showing them to leave space or move fast. The guy who drove the bike saw me. I thought he has noticed me so he will leave some space or move fast. But now he has put on his hero mask and was moving in a zig zag manner without letting me to overtake it and turning and seeing in intervals and showing his driving flair.

Ooo I hate this behaviour. I was eagerly going to my home to see my mom and say how the class went for the day, idhula idhu veraiya. Being kind is more necesaary than being timid/stern. So anything usually doesn’t ruffle me. When he was siding towards the left, I triggered my accelerator and overtook him in the right, knowing what he’ll do next. Yes he overtook me with utmost speed. And the road was clear; I was happy and went on my way to home.

I don’t understand where his egoism was when he was circusing before me. I don’t have any ego regarding the gender overtaking me. Who have urgency or speeding greater than me, overtake me. It’s very simple. On my turning he was standing with his vehicle and talking to his friends seems he resides somewhere inside. I came home as I planned to.

It’s silly when some guys feel an urge to prove that they are more powerful, why don’t they think they are far more than these things? In my point strong people don’t feel an urge to prove themselves. I value both guys and girls are equal. They are far more divine from spotting them with the stupid question of can you do this or can you do that. Both have their own strengths and their own weaknesses. Living as a man is a success for a man and living as a woman is a success for a woman. Driving a scooty is definitely not a man thing and overtaking any vehicle if they are dead slow is not a particular gender thing too. I believe it’s a human thing ;-)

I wondered what had grown in these years of independence or the transformation from stone age to new age. Actually in my point of view, the strength of an individual person is in how kind they are.