Scream and the world will scream with you

I saw the heading in the newspaper “House lizard caused a train to halt”. I wondered how in the world such small creature can stop a train. Curious I quickly ran through the article.

In reality, a small lizard which was trying to find its food just dropped on the shoulder of a woman. Seeing this lizard move on her shoulder the woman just screamed at the top of her voice. The train was crowded as usual and listening to someone scream, commuters thought that there was a bomb in the train as the news of blast in train few months back was stuck somewhere in the back of their brain. There was a chaos in the train and someone pulled the emergency train which made the train to halt.

This reminded me of an event in the flight from UK to India. We were just near India and everyone were in good mood, just when the pilot informed us that we are going through a bad weather due to turbulence and asked the commuters to keep the seat belt fastened. After about a minute, we all could feel sudden jerks. Few more jerks and we could feel the flight descending. Just before this the pilot had announced that there was no risk and was usual problem and would be over in 2 minutes. Everything was going ok till someone screamed. That was it. One scream from some women in the corner and most of the children started crying till the flight was steady again.

There is fear within everyone. But don’t let your fear cause harm to others. Be silent and keep your mind open. Most of your fear can cause harm to others because of your screaming which otherwise would have just faded away without harming anyone.