Fate can hack your plans in a second. In this brief span that we exist on this earth, with all our arrogance and egos and those weird sense of achievements, everything can come to naught in a fraction of a second
Scene: A drunken 27 year old NRI, Noori Haveliwala was speeding in her black Honda CRV from Breach Candy to Colaba around midnight. She collided with a taxi standing on the road. The car skidded to the left of the road where the traffic police was checking for drunk drivers. The Honda dashed the police’s Qualis, killing a policeman and a biker and injuring 4 other policeman.
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The above scene could be a daily episode anywhere on this earth. Lets not contemplate on the drunk driver or the policeman killed or injured. The spotlight here is on the biker.
The biker had an eating joint in Kurla and was returning from South Mumbai after a meeting. The police stopped him during naka bandhi. While the police were checking his documents, Noori’s Honda struck, killing the biker. What timing! Had the biker been late by a few seconds (stopping the bike for a phone call, scratching his back, skidding on the road, etc), he would have arrived on the scene of the accident and fate could have him lending a helping hand to the injured.
Suppose we had the power to video tape our life, we could have seen this scene from a different angle.
Now here is something bizarre.
The biker was not alone. He had a pillion rider with him. When the police stopped the biker, the pillion rider got off and walked a few feet away to speak on his cell phone. He missed being hit by the Honda but saw the incident take place. Everything happened in seconds. I got goose pimples thinking about it.
Noori’s destiny – she survived.
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