The Taxi Journey

I remember the that train journey in Rajdhani Express.I was going from New Delhi to Mumbai.
It was 21 May,2008, I was travelling for the very first time without my parents.
It was 11 in the night when d train reached Mumbai. Its a very bustling city with people always on the move,and that night as well there were many people .
But the platform on which I got down was very dimly lit.
I was going through a sense of confusion and nervousness,don't quite know what was the real feeling that I was going through.
First a completely new and strange city,nobody to receive me amd I, a young unescorted girl with absolutely no idea
Though I had heard that Mumbai is a very safe city but coming from Delhi I was a little scared.
I just started walking,and got out of the station,there were many people there and many taxis were standing.
Again,I felt a chill going down my spine as I started moving near the taxi.
I garnered some strenghth and started chanting some hymn,I don't usually do it but I was so scared that I could only remember God.
I looked at all the taxi drivers (which I admit was quite wierd on my part) and finally decided on one of them who lookewd dxecent enough.Actually this looking part was suggested to me by a freind who told me that whenever travelling alone in the night always take a taxi whose driver looks neuther too young nor too old,jst middle aged would be fyn.............still don't know the logic behind it.
So I sat in the Taxi and asked him to take me to Versova.He looked at me and said 'Is sheher mein naye ho shayad,yaha ke nahi lagte'.Who on the earth was he to ask me this sort of a question?
I got a little alarmed and without answering him,asked him to jst drive.
He dropped me at my destination in about two hours and charged me exactly what the fare was.
I got down and realised that I had been rude.
Also jst because there are a few bad people here and there,does not make the whole world bad.
This world is a great place to live in and we should stop looking at people with the same perspective.
I turned back,he was still dere.I smiled at him and said"Sahi kaha tumne,yaha se nahi hun main,Dilli se aayi hoon"and waved him.He smiled and waved me back .
It was a great exeperience and I'll always cherish that journey:the taxi journey which really changed the way I looked at people and this world.