Surekha Kulkarni

Today

Did any of you wonder why I didn’t reply to today’s prompt or post my running activity?

I am not sure if any of you care about me so much to wonder why ?

This is not an insinuation or self victimization, just a disturbed anguish from my heart maybe

I am sure most of you are wondering why I am writing all this .

Let me stop beating around the bush and narrate what happened today.

Most of you are aware that my college is early in the morning. It starts at 7 am.

Hence on week days, I ran alone around 5 am . My running group starts their run around 6 am.

Today I started my run, and I would have run a km when suddenly a man on a bicycle stopped in front of me, looked disdainly at me and said, “Old women what is the need to run on the roads ” and gave me some choicest expletives in Marathi.

I was stunned for a moment as I didn’t understand from where this came ?

I am always wary about my canine friends but they have never abused me in this manner.

I recovered immediately and in that split second decided not to take it lying down.

I shouted back at him and challenged him to come to the police station.

As expected, the coward sped away.

The minimal mortals on the road didn’t acknowledge what had happened and continued their sojourn on the road .

I have been thinking about it since .

It’s not my choice to run alone at such an unearthly hour , but do I have any other option ?

Am I causing any trouble or inconvenience to anyone?

Is anyone on the road bothered by my running or do I obstruct anyone’s free movement on the road?

I don’t want to make this a gender related issue.

But was wondering if a male so called old was running, would this cyclist have abused him?

Thoughts and thoughts and I am disturbed.

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  4. I wonder whether or not it was a territorial thing. I was seemingly disturbed by both hecklers and the police when I went slightly off my usual route when running that approached a dark area. I think that they saw me then as a threat, or maybe a threat to myself. I went back to the usual route, and things seemed to calm down. It’s isolating and kinda boring since I rarely see others on the usual route and it was the same old, although it was well lit and felt safer. Anyway, I’m not sure if this helps.

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  7. Ignore… Just ignore is my suggestion to you dear friend.. You carry on with what you are doing such perverts are found everywhere.. Don’t think more and again go to run at the same time tomorrow 👍👍💕💕💕

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