Last friday, somebody told me a story.. It was about 2 drivers, Ram and Kishan.. both of them were excellent drivers.. Ram could take you from location A to location B in only 2hr 30min as compared to the 3hr taken by everyone else.. while he achieved this feat, he also made you regain the faith in God.. Kishan however would drive far more smoothly and guess what, he would take only 2hr 15min.. there was no moral to the story so I made one -- "Faster does not necessarily mean quicker."
For the first two-three weeks after joining Deloitte, I used to come to the office on (my brother-in-law's) Yamaha RX 135.. For those who haven't ridden it, its a wonderful bike.. awesome acceleration, exceptionally light and agile.. (its so light, that even a Super Splendour seems heavy compared to it..) later I took my Unicorn.. it was like a truck compared to the Yamaha.. and the acceleration was lower as well.. besides that, I was asked not to ride faster than 40 (although I did about 60) and not to rev the engine too much, not to accelerate or brake too hard and not to do that and not to do this.. basically to drive it as smoothly as I possibly could.. I used to take 35min to reach office (about 18km) everyday on the Yamaha and on the Unicorn, "You guessed it!!" I still took only 35min, maybe a minute more or less.. the moral of the story? "Faster does not necessarily mean quicker. You have got to maintain that speed."
the fact was that, on the Yamaha, I was decelerating as much as I was accelerating.. It gave me more pleasure riding it, but I wasn't gaining any time.. because I was concentrated more on squeezing between the traffic.. but on the Unicorn, even though I was definitely slower, I was maintaining a constant speed for much longer times because I was trying to make it a smoother ride.. How to find that quicker (not faster) lane on Hyderabad's roads - I will discuss in the next blog..
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