By Parv Kaushik, askMamu.com

There are scores of articles in the newspapers and magazines about how to improve your “love life” “married life” “work life” etc.. but no one ever talks of improving your “traffic life”! You spend so much time in crawling traffic you are bound to lose your sanity a couple of times. Don’t worry I’m not going to tell you to read self-help books in a traffic jam or to listen to Osho discourses neither will I tell you to make funny faces at each other.

Some have the best ways to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend. You cannot defeat the traffic so let it pass through you. Make it a friend. When you are stuck in a frustrating crawling traffic with a million other cars and bikes fighting for every inch of the road and the horns are blazing through your ears like loud speakers with Himesh songs think of everything as a DREAM.

Absurd as it may sound but you can try it. Think of the road, the jam, the horns, the pollution as a dream then everything will be transformed. Witness this dream, be an observer. Be a dreamer who has woven this dream and now silently witnesses it. Then everything will be more meaningful more creative more colourful. You have to forget everything else and be a witness to this dream and nothing else.

All tensions will fade away. All irritations will disappear. A new quality will come to the traffic around you. A new energy will arise within you. This is not any new energy arising but all he energy conserved which was leaking in worry of the traffic.

Then the cars and bike will speak to you and the humans stuck there will reveal their story. My dream is unique. Your’s will be unique too. Everyone will have only his/her dream to witness. More the traffic the more opportunity to be lost in dreamland and relax your mind and soul.

Parv Kaushik is the author of the blog “The Blog Shall Set You Free” and a contributing author of askMamu.com. You can visit his blog at: parvkaushik.blogspot.com.