Wrong Decision
By jaishankar
@Shivram59 (49312)
India
April 26, 2026 12:35pm CST
Today is Sunday. It is a day off my store. I got up at 4.30 am after having a refreshing sleep.
Having had a cup of tea I set out for my usual long morning walk.
I reached the jungle and wandered there for about an hour and returned back to home.
But suddenly I changed my mind and decided to go to a small village where a friend of mine lives.The village is two kms from the jungle.
I walked to the village and met my friend.
Now I had to walk 7 kms to reach my home.
By the time I reached my town it was going to be half past eleven am. The day was very hot and sunny. I had a vertigo. I went to sugarcane juice vendor. He offered me a chair to sit under the shadow of a huge banyan tree.
I had as many as five glasses of sugarcane juice there. And then I felt well. I waited for further half an hour and then left for home.
I would have fallen on the road due to vertigo had the juice vendor not been there.
I realised that my decision to walk to further two kms in such a hot weather was a wrong decision.
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6 responses
@rakski (152889)
• Philippines
27 Apr
@Shivram59 it is best to avoid walking or be on the streets when the temperature is so high. It can lead to heatstroke
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
28 Apr
@rakski I have realised it was my wrong decision to walk two kms further. By the time I left for home the temperature was touching 46 C.
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
Thank you. I walked more than what I usually do when the temperature was so high.
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@augusta123 (9682)
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26 Apr
This is a great lesson knowing our limits.
Thank God for the sugarcane vendor.
Wishing you a restful Sunday.
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
You are right. I made a wrong decision and walked two kms further zThe temperature here was 46.4 C. I forgot that. Fortunately I had vertigo when I reached the town where the juice vendor was standing.
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@luisadannointed (10900)
• Philippines
27 Apr
I am glad you are okay. Never do that again.
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
Thank you Now on I'll never walk more than what I usually do, especially when the weather is so hot
@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
Thank you. I have realised that my decision to walk further 2 kms to meet my friend was wrong. The juice vendor told me that the temperature was as high as 46.4 C.
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@Ineeddentures (30969)
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27 Apr
I wouldn't have gone anywhere in heat like that.
Not really used to heat like that.
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
Thank you. We are used to it. That day I didn't know what the temperature was. Moreover I walked two kms more. When I had vertigo, the juice vendor told me it was 44.6 C then. I was fortunate to have entered the town by then
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
27 Apr
@Ineeddentures Yes, I was lucky. I could hAve fallen near or in the jungle.
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@valherma00 (2806)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
29 Apr
i'm sorry this happened to you. sugar and nice people's gesture helped you, which i am glad
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
30 Apr
Thank you. Actually I took a wrong decision and went to the village to meet my friend. By the time I left for home, the temperature had gone as high as more than 47 C that I had not expected.
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@Shivram59 (49312)
• India
9h
@valherma00 I didn't think about the weather. My friend was insisting me to have my lunch there, but , you know, I never take lunch.
@valherma00 (2806)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
2 May
@Shivram59 you meant well but weather conditions were too harsh. i am glad you survived this day.it all went well
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