Now look who's talking now...

It's a grubby morning and you are trundling along to the cross junction that lies in your way to the tube. You are late and the set of traffic lights your way looks like it's going to remain red for ages. You know it's wrong to cross and you hold back. Before you know it, a trickling of people starts to saunter across the tarmac as if it's No Cars' Day. Isn't this scenario utterly familiar?

I used to belong to the group of people that patiently waits for the traffic lights to be in my favour before i cross. And inadvertently, that means that I scorn at people who beat the system by trying to grab so-called precious seconds, scurrying across the road like cockroaches.

But hey... who am I to judge actually? And on what grounds am I granted the irrevocable rights to sneer at people who are trying to rush their way anyway (no pun intended) Oh yea, the big dogma that has been ingrained into Sillyporeans since young. Green man means friendly man means you can cross the road and red man equals angry man and so if you cross the road while angry red man is staring your face, you are getting yourself into a fix. Rules, rambling jurisdiction and moral rights and wrongs aside, let's ask ourselves this question.

Everytime the lights flash solid green man, you cross (Of course you do and for the matter, you still cross when the green man is flashing at you...haha! Stop lying to me that you don't!!) Truthfully, do you keep an alert lookout and primed reflexes for any motorists that apparently don't stop in open defiance of the red lights? Do you seriously assume that the green man is your guardian angel watching over you and that under his bright watch, nothing is going to happen?

As I've observed many a times... Many pedestrians place blind faith in their "guardian angel" and strut along the continous parallel white lines as if they are sauntering for all their monies are worth for. On the other hand, the very group of people that I have despised all this while i.e. the people who beat the system, actually keep an active monitor and a constant watch on the road condition.

Now who's right and who's wrong? The group of people who abide by the laws of the land and brazenly tempt fate by defying the rules of Life each time or the group of renegades who don't give a damn to the traffic lights and yet don't give a chance to surreptitious Chance?

Which is which?