Today I was waiting at the bus stop for the Bus 36 to reach my institute, there I noticed an abnormal women. She was wearing normal clothes, red sweater ,Grey trousers and good shoes, all in pretty good shape. With the dress one cannot tell if there is some problem with her or not. Her face was a bit strange. I saw wrinkles all over here face, definitely she was not young, or may be the illness has made her like that. Beside there were other features on face which were not normal.
She was standing close to the road waiting for the bus. After sometime she bend down to pick something from the street. After examining it she threw it and then started singing and tossing on legs like a kid.
Soon the bus came and we all entered the bus. I noticed that she took some time in getting into the bus and when she did came inside, she came towards the back of bus. There were two seats on which 2 boys were sitting. On seeing her one stood up to leave the seat for her. The other did not. She touched the legs of other boy making a gesture that she want to sit in his place. I wondered why she wanted to sit there, may be because it was the window seat or maybe thats the seat she always used to take ?? I don’t know … People smiled at her and tried to behave in a more normal and meaningful way than usual, just to keep distinction.
Many stops passed, she didn’t utter anything except making some strange growling voices from her throat. But when the next stop was about to come, some people pressed the stop button. The red light on ceiling started blinking showing that someone wants to get out. As the stop approached, this woman started screaming loudly, a very strange sound, not even the usual scream that humans make. She came quickly near the gate to get down, stood near an middle aged lady. She was pressing herself against this middle aged lady, meaning that she wanted to get down as soon as the gate opens. At this point, the middle aged lady spoke something in a hard voice in Italian.
I was surprised to see the way the people behaved after she got down from bus. The young girls were laughing, old men and women were making faces and softly abusing, young boys smiled and put glasses on eyes to stare girls on the sea side. The behavior of that lady has affected the minds of everyone in bus, except me. I was the only one who did not show any change in behavior. I noticed that people were staring at me, why ?? Just because I didn’t want to be with them ??? strange no ??
Now I ask question, what is madness ?? Or what I should call an abnormal act ??
Certainly each one of us do many things in our daily life which doesn’t have any meaning or of use to anyone. We do them for pleasure and happiness or may be sometimes for nothing. For example walking on street with mobile on one hand and cigarette in other but still kicking the pebbles which lie on street. There are many useless and kiddish things we do, but still we consider ourselves normal.
Society has defined some unspoken norms. What is done by majority is considered normal, even though that might not have any meaning or be of use to anyone.
