That Moment of Indiscretion

The giant leap that Neil Armstrong took somewhere sometime has been described has one of the most influential and inspirational act that changed the whole course of mankind. Leaps have been in news ever since right from Silas'(Who's this?) dwarf leaps in his backyard to Yelena Isinbayeva's pole-vault leaps.Yes, leaps have come a long way before I decided to take that fateful leap.

Boarded on the NorthEast express, I had known right from the beginning that it doesn't have a stop at Naini Jn(the nearest station to my home, I had reservation up to the next station from which I'll have to take an auto back). So I had figured out that I will have to get off the train when it stops for signal somewhere near Naini. As the train passed through places that started looking familiar to me, I got my backpack and moved on to the door. Just then the train stopped. Now I had to decide whether to get off or wait to make sure this is the right place. By the time I could make a decision-given as lazy as I am my brain has to deal with a great amount of inertia- the train started honking and moving again. So I waited to see a platform approaching. And lo, its Naini.

Now(to my amusement later) my decision taking abilities had warmed up and was ready. So, I decided in a split second to jump off the train to the platform, thinking of all those days back in Kerala where I used to jump off  near the overhead bridge just to avoid all the walking through the platform. And it turned out that all my velocity gauging capabilities had gone in for a short hibernation after the 'nice and pleasant' Biharian summer day I spent in the train.
After the leap came the fall, and with the fall came the skin peel. And the explanation I came up with at home was a simple statement. "No pain, No gain"