Spread Happiness with Coca-Cola

I live in Delhi NCR. If you ask people who reside in Delhi and work in Gurgaon one thing that troubles them most and would like to have solution sooner rather than later. It would be traffic jams. I understand that traffic jam is not one problem, it is manifestation of multiple problems acting together. Bad civic sense, little or no knowledge, or regard for that matter, for traffic rules, no sense of lanes and worst of all, attitude of daily commuters.

I do not know why, but in India everyone is always in hurry. People feel triumphant when they are able occupy the narrowest available place on the road between lanes ahead of everyone else. All this is still bearable. What makes this situation unbearable is when there are prolonged stares from angry people as if they have followed all the rules for all of their lives and today they have found someone who has scant regard for anything like rules. I get this urge of getting out of my car and thrash them in and out until they beg for mercy but then I realize that they too harbour similar feelings.  

Our intolerance for stupidity has made this world a worse place to live, people are scattering anger, frustration and all sorts of negativity all around when they should choose to spread love and happiness. I feel, very strongly, that any such incident can be avoided with a simple smile and a “sorry”. When you are getting stared at or you are staring at someone, it is better to smile and say sorry if you are in wrong than react to the situation. On the one hand where it protects you from any further provocation, it makes sure that your mood remains happy.  But it is easier said than done. It makes me happy when I receive a smile from a fellow traveller or an acknowledgement from someone for my good behaviour on road.

What is it that can help us achieve a world where people are always happy and they don’t react to provocations or stupidity committed by others on the road?

 I feel that Coca Cola http://cokeurl.com/96jnc can help in this situation by putting up makeshift outlets all along the national highways and at all traffic lights. At first they would have to identify situations where a “who blinks first” is going on, then rush to the spot with Coca-Cola bottles and give them to drivers and ask them to smile and spread happiness. It can be the next big revolution towards improving the national happiness quotient. Then once people are used to it, they should be allowed (made) to buy each other a Coca-Cola bottle.

Let’s make Coca-Cola a currency of happiness and let’s exchange it as much as we can.