Life of others .... A way to learn

It was a foggy morning that day in north and I was travelling on a train from Dehradun to Delhi. It was good that i unknowingly booked that ac seat for me nearly two months back. Outside temperature, i can't say exactly but may be 5 deg and our compartment was reading 23 degrees inside. I had to take away my jacket as half jersey was enough for me.
Train was already delayed and I was praying it won't get delay anymore as I had to catch a flight from delhi to Hyderabad. Our compartment was filled with school students eagerly waiting to reach their home to spend their vacation, few families quarreling that they weren't getting enough space to put their luggage, people asking to pantry person to get then Tea as they don't want coffee. So, many faces (happy, struggling etc), requirements and aspirations. I was just thinking about myself, how the life has changed for me. I was nothing few years back. Just a Bachelor Degree in Science and I used to think it would be great if I get a job in Call-Center at least to start with. I hails from a place where there is a lack of guidance and also my friend circle was like that too. I am not praising myself but yes I put some good foot forward after my graduation and got myself in a position that I can proud of. Sitting alone I was hoping everything goes smoothly as it is. Around 3hr of journey left when our train stopped in a small station. God, I was getting irritated by such small halts. I could see no one on the station but a poor man with a blanket on him which was enough to save his life from this breath taking cold, I guess. He started moving towards the track and picked up a polythene and dropped something from the newspaper cover he had into it (which I guess was food). That wasn't unusual, after all he was poor and what more you expect though I was feeling pity on him. He jumped back onto the platform and picked a tobacco packet too. Oh! he was picking as if he was expecting something from those thrown packets. He opened the packet and tried to get something out of it. Wasn't to my surprise but there was nothing on it and that guy, he wasn't also surprised too. He calmly put the packet down and moved towards the tap, cleaned his hands and picked handful of rice to eat from his polythene. Such a life, no frustration, no anger. He just expected something and picket that packet to find nothing. This whole act didn't surprise me much as he has no one to yell on except his own destiny but why to curse that too as you are the one who nurture and play with it. But it reminded me the simplicity, calmness, acceptance which we need to have in our life to have a peaceful mind. What if he would have got something from that polythene or that tobacco packet. I think his reaction would have been the same, numb, because he don't expect any surprises. But still his reaction was same for the case too when he got nothing. When we are sailing a smooth life then its so lovely but it may be harsh too. Life inside that AC train was a bit calm and outside it was the practical world, where you have to survive against all the odds. The lesson I could gather from that journey is be ready to face any poor situation, don't expect too much, don't be excited for the surprises in life because surprises are never planned.