Mistakes in Life: Losing Temper

I used to be ill-tempered. I would like to narrate an episode of last year which taught me the hard way that it is important to control your rage.

During vacations, I was travelling back to my home in train. A man aged 30-40 was sitting adjacent to me. When train stopped at an intermediate station, he purchased tea from a vendor. While collecting change from the tea vendor, accidentally, tea spilled on me. Even though tea was not that much hot and caused nothing harm to me but I don’t know what happened to me. I was irritated, enraged even and my blood boiled from inside. I started shouting on him. He asked for sorry but I blamed him for burning my hand. He termed it as a mistake and said that he was having no motive to burn my hand. But this ‘abrupt’ reply infuriated me and I started cursing him more fiercely. Sensing my anger, or rather my madness, he exchanged his seat with some other guy. Now, it was peace for all.

Unaware that one more dreadful happening is awaiting me, I reached my station. Now, I think earlier one was dreadful for that person and not for me. ASAP,I moved towards my father, who was there to receive me. But I was puzzled to see the person standing with my father. The person was the same one with whom I messed up in train. It appeared as if sky is going to fall on me. My father introduced the man to be his cousin. I was boggled to come to know the man as my uncle. My uncle was smiling seeing me. I caught my breath, hurriedly touched uncle’s feet and moved towards car with a sheepish look on my face.