Ah..What A Relief...

This was the feeling which I had when I checked the status of my "waiting" ticket, and found out that it has got confirmed!!

For going home, I'd got the tickets done some 45 days ago from today. On the day of reservation, the status was W/L 15, for the 3AC coach of Jhelum Express. And after a few days, it's status came drastically down to W/L 7...since then it's been a story where "slow and steady wins the race".

Today, on the date of journey, my ticket has got confirmed, finally! In all these days, it had been a trickling story, with the status falling drop by drop. It had survived on W/L 3 for many days, and with my heart pounding faster everytime I'd tried to check it's new position. It took almost 10days to move on to a safer position of RAC12. And I was almost satisfied to see that status. I started living with this hope more arduously "It will get Confirmed". And finally, it did.

Not that I would have postponed or delayed my trip due to the ticket not getting confirmed. Because any more procrastination would be far more uncomfortable than going on a Waiting ticket. It's just that your journey becomes more relaxed and so does the feelings of the people who are expecting you to come over after 9 months!

My train is at 5:30pm from Pune Station, which is at a stone's throw distance from my office. I'd got my luggage to the office this morning, and I will just need to collect it and head towards the station right on time. Everyday while coming to the office, I used to think that when will I be able to come to the station with my bags packed! As they say, the closer you are from the temple, the longer you take to visit it. And it took me 9 months to make it to the "temple", even being so close to it...