The Second Chance!!

#Incident 1 

On a usual working day as I was heading to my office, I on boarded a bus towards the station. Never had I thought that the 5 min travel would have such a powerful impact on me. Looking out of the window I saw students cracking jokes on their way to college.. shopkeepers opening the shutters of their shops to start a new day.. workers heading towards the station for their daily source of income. As the bus was about to reach the station, I went towards the front door to get down at my stop. Seconds until the bus could reach the stop..I saw a dog silently sitting in the middle of the road. I glanced at the driver and he too looked down towards the dog. The driver honked but the dog didn't pay much heed. The dog then looked at the bus and stood up to walk away. To this I thought that the driver would slow down the bus or possibly stop for a while to let the dog pass. To my utter horror, the driver didn't stop and rammed the bus over the dog. The dog who had already moved from the road halfway took a direct hit on his hind legs and back and cried out loud. The impact was clearly felt. The noise was deafening to my ears and my eyes couldn't believe the heart shattering sight. I looked at the driver with anger but saw no expression of any regret or remorse on his face. 'Are you blind? Don't you have even little bit of humanity left in you? Couldn't you just stop the bus for a while to let a dog pass? Are you insane? You are cruel...and horrible', I spoke in my mind looking at the driver yet I couldn't speak a word. A lady who was standing behind me said in a sad voice..he doesn't have any humanity left. My stop arrived and I got down searching for the dog behind. I couldn't see the dog. Maybe it hid somewhere behind a vehicle. My heart sank in the moment. Why couldn't I shout at the driver? Why couldn't I save the poor dog? Are hit and run cases only applicable to human beings? What about other living beings? Who will speak for them? The dog.. for the rest of it's life will never trust a human now. Maybe that's what humans deserve. My mind couldn't rest following this incident and there I reached my office.. resisting back my tears.. I went to the washroom and cried.. if only I could save the dog... And there again.. it happened.. a second time.. But this time..I didn't take any chance..

#Incident 2

It was my father's birthday and I left early from office so that I could buy him a gift. I stopped at a sweet shop and just outside the shop was a cart seller who was selling my favorite sweet 'Kharvas'. I asked the seller to pack me some. As I waited for him to pack, a dog came near me and started wagging it's tail. As soon as I looked at the dog, the flashback of that saddening incident gripped me. I stood still.. frozen in time. Coming back to my senses, I saw a truck slowly approaching me. Since the road was small and already crowded, the driver slowed down his vehicle and honked to get people away. I moved out of his sight but again the dog stood there looking at me with those twinkling eyes.. I had to take an action. The driver clearly couldn't see the dog below. I jumped back to my place again..and raised my hand to ask the driver to stop the vehicle. I waved at the dog to come with me faking a sweet in my palms. It came with me wagging it's tail and then I asked the truck driver to go forward. That moment I realized something...

       That something was.. though I couldn't save the first dog, Life gave me a second chance to save another.. Maybe saving the second dog brought some amount of relief to my regret of not being able to save the first.. it still gave me hope.. Hope that if the first dog is still alive, someday some human will restore it's faith in humanity..again.. Life gives us second chances to correct our past mistakes.. but not necessarily every time we will get a second chance!!