An India surviving lesson: smile

Monday morning, 9 AM, Mumbai, India…

Starting point: Jogeswari train station

Destination: Churchgate train station

Train description: extremely crowd

When I got into the train the women start shouting at me, I think they were saying me to get down, but, thanks God my Hindi language level is not so advanced. They were so angry, than I was afraid, but after a brilliant idea crossed my mind: SMILE. I smiled and a miracle happened: they start smiling to me too and they became very friendly. Increbile!

Yes! This how the conflicts get resolved in India: smiling. Indians are afraid of conflict, of fights. Genetically the Indians don’t support conflicts, they get blocked and they are doing everything to avoid conflicts.

Those women, not only became very friend, but also give me some very nice pictures: