Traffic Signal

For everyone who is frustrated at the signal....

For everyone who is the reason for others frustration on the signal....

For everyone.... :-)

Yes, there is a movie with this name. There are probably books, metaphors. Some love it, some hate it, most hate it. Infact I remember the other day someone asked me "Whats your favourite colour?" I thought long and hard and could not come up with an answer. I then said just to make the conversation lighter "since I've started driving, my favourite colour is green. :-)"

So what does it do? Its red, you stop, its yellow, you accelerate or slow down depending on your definition of safety and energy saving, and it turns grees, you go, chances are when it turns green you've probably already crossed it. Red also causes stress and irritation once in a while. Whats following is probably a creation of that feeling.

One day I was driving and I was at the signal waiting for it to turn green and for a change I was calm about it. Thats when it struck me all of a sudden that signal is nothing but THE GREATEST PROOF OF HUMAN STUPIDITY!

Surprised? Sure. I was too. Shocked to be precise. Well, lets look at what it is for. Its green you go, turns yellow, you slow down, turns red, you stop! Simple?

Lets change the perspective. Its green, the signal is telling you, I am giving you an opportunity to pass, we accelerate and move fast. It turns yellow, its telling you, listen, in the next few seconds your freedom to cross this point is going to be forfieted for sometime till I feel right. Then I may let you go. And all of a sudden the face of your boss or your client appears in front of your eyes and you tell yourself, who should I care about my boss or this stupid signal? (Yes, I know u refer to the signal at stupid quite sometime ;-) ). So you accelerate and try everything to pass till it turns red.

Now its turn red. It is telling you, STOP! You have no right to cross, you have no right to pass till I allow you. Then it decides to go green and you finally feel as if handcuffs are off, you are unleashed by that 8 feet yellow coloured POLE!!!!

Feel it?

Lets talk about why was it made. Simple answer, for road discipline. Complicated answer? Coz we are stupid and non-disciplined. You have been in a scenario where we are on a crossing with no signal. If its peak hours, in about 4 mins flat there are cars facing each other and we are STUCK! Someone has to be the ice breaker by stepping out of the car and sorting things. This is who we are. Undisciplined, unorganised, self-centered and stoopid.

Thats why Signal. Reminding me everytime that human race, who has succeded in reaching the moon, design space ships to understand climate months in advance, created devices that can communicate without wires, created jets and airplanes, nuclear missiles, who has created the most amazing art in the world, have reached Mount Everest and broken millions of records with its potential; turns into "I wanna go first" RAT on a signal.