Informed decisions

 I'm waiting at Elphinstone road station. I need to reach Malad as soon as possible. In Mumbai, every minute counts! It's evening. I just saw 05.11pm borivali slow crawl (yeah 'crawl'- it's Mumbai) away in front on my eyes when I was on the bridge. And being unsuccessful in tackling the crowd on the foot over bridge, I missed it!

  Next train I saw was of Andheri. ( uh god! Why don't we get things, when it's needed most 😡). So I opened the mobile app about the train schedule. Saw 5.14 Andheri. It reaches dadar at 5.16pm. Saw a train for virar That begins from Dadar. If I just take andheri train till Dadar and change to virar train? Then I check for the next Borivali train. It's at 5.20pm. Oh god. Can't wait for so many minutes. 

   Then I found the time at which each train reaches malad. Borivali slow reaches at 5.57pm. But the virar train (that originates from Dadar) reaches malad at 5.50pm! Done. Decided. I changed the train from bandra. To avoid the crowd in Dadar. 

  Now, as I'm writing this blog, I'm in that virar train. Thought to pen it down instead of cursing the Indian railways all the way.

  But. The moral of this blog is NOT to show you how to save time. Neither to promote any app. 

   It's to make you understand the term- to make an informed decision. I was well informed about the system. Cherry on the cake was that I was also well-versed with Indian railways. This helped me save my time. Made me more efficient.

  Now you can look at it from two angles. 

-> how few companies cheat people by not informing them about the products. Not telling them about harmful toxins present in items they sell or for example-

 Your mobile network provider dupes you by not disclosing minute details. In other words, consumers are cheated by the small and simple "*" in an advertisement!

   Looking at politics, India would become so much better if we know the crime history of politicians, the productive work done by them in their respective constituencies, how do they collect funds, the details of bank accounts and black money stashed abroad! If we had all the information available at a click!

  Another angle could be...

->it explains the need of having experienced people. An experiened player in a team will share his knowledge for the benefit of all. Similarly, an experienced teacher, it explains the Need of having real teachers and not merely gadgets.  

      It teaches us the importance of education. Today, countries with high or almost 100% literacy rate are consisted developed. If we achieve absolute literacy in India, it would reflect on human development index. The quality of life a common man lives will improve. It also shows us the importance of infomation. Of decision making. 

      We can kill the darkness of ignorance by the light of knowledge.