Enlightment Day

Ahem, I voted today.

Quite a few from my area - Mumbai North Central voted today.
But more than it feeling like a duty, it felt like, I was there, people were there - meeting their past.

Neighbours, old friends, aunts, uncles, play mates, seeing them after 5 - 10 years.

Like a social gathering.

Girls and guys I played with as a kid, parents shifted homes and those memories seem to have faded away. But seeing them, the same faces, telling each other - oh, You've changed; and you're just the same. All of it.

Everyone seemed to have come out of their homes, in unision, senior citizens, kids just turned 18, all walking down the steps after the vote, with a smile - Redemption.

What is it that made so many of us wake up, get out and pay our due? Terror attacks, the Jagoo Re campaign, our own personal awakening?

What ever the reason, waiting in the long line just seemed worth it.

Yes, I voted today.