Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Spiritful Souls

Its a nice day outside in London, temperature hovering between teen numbers and weather just perfect for anyone. And it was drizzling in the morning very lightly and it seems like it did not liked to disturb humans busy life. So it just escaped from human scene and took the stance of waiting till humans are either tired of thier activities or till the neurons of humans seek some sleep.

Today I want to share one of the event happened few days back when olympic soul came to London travelling across the world. As everyone say, olympic torch is really a light which brings the world together with true sport spirit. It was a winter day and it snowed in the morning and was gusty. And being an Indian, it was a new weather for me. I was freezing and the storng gust made everyone outside to shiver. Thats why probably the most aboriginals of London were not on streets even though it was a weekend. Neither, We were not excatly sure about which way the spirit will take nor we were not sure about where we were heading to. On the way to London Bridge we asked some police personnel who kindly showed the map, which the spirit is going to take, We decided to stay on the bridge near to London Eye. There were so many people already waiting for the spirit, most of them were chinese/tibet. We did not realised the fact initially that all those tibet people gathered there to oppose chinese governement humiliation towords Tibet people.

A bus came through and everyone started running towords that bus. We also ran. When the bus stopped I could see so many people with common attire. And the attire suggested that they are something related to olympic torch. As few came out of bus and everyone started clicking and we did not know who they were but we also started flashing our cameras. Later everyone started taking snaps of themseleves with them. We also did the same. After we took few snaps, and stand aside watching and wondering when the trorch is going to come, a elderly lady came to us and whispered "Who was it with whom you took snaps just now?". We promptly squeaked in her hears "We also don't know". I think she could not have resisted a wild laugh there but just to keep her hospitality of being a english women, she just smiled and passed the standing bus.