One Night On A Suburban Train Ride - Anita Punyanitya (reading diary .txt) 📗

One Night On A Suburban Train Ride

It could have been in any city in any country,….. one night I was riding my twice weekly night ride on the suburban Berlin train from Frohnau, where the Zen practice was, passing by train underground to reach through East Germany, then passing into another section that was part of West Berlin once again….travelling home to Templehof, a quiet suburb with newish warm small apartments for plenty of pensioners and so on, along with some wonderful hobby gardens of some exquisite gardeners.

It was late in the evening, after 10 pm. A strongly alcohol smelling, uncleanly dressed dishevelled seriously drunken man of about 43 entered into the train carriage, and walked over right to where I was sitting in a corner seat close to the door, and decided to plant himself right on top of me to sit down. I slid away just in time, and he sank into the corner seat…me moving a seat away. The train journeyed on for some stations further. I was a bit disconcerted by the smell and raving words of the man, and generally ignored him to my best of abilities, not thinking too much of the incident of forced seating.

After a while, his verbal disruptions disconcerted and warned me that something was not safe to be hanging so close to the man late at night, and so I got up and walked down to the far end of the carriage to get as far away from him as possible.

All these trains stops further into Berlin city itself, more passengers were getting in to fill up the train carriage.

Suddenly, the man got up from his seat at the other end of the carriage and walked drunkenly all the way down the carriage right to where I was sitting, and planted himself right at me. I was a bit alarmed. It was getting close to my train station to get off in the dark night and walk home in the light snowy footpath. I felt disturbed by his movement towards me from the other end of the carriage, and him waving his drunken wards at me. All the surrounding passengers could hear and see he had his intentions aimed at bothering me and following me. They all said nothing. I didn’t want to swear in English at him, in the Berlin train. No one came to my aid and shouted at him to get away and leave me alone. I was an unnerving experience back then for a young person intend on harmlessness and Buddhism.

The train next stopped at my stop, Templehof, and I got off quickly, walking quickly towards the distant staircase to climb up to the street above. Casting a glance behind I detected the fact that he had followed me off the train and was trying to walk faster to catch up with me alone in the darkish underground station late at night.

My heat beat faster. Rape was probably his intention.

Got upstairs to the street above, and remembered with some relief that there was a police station right on the corner within 30 meters from the train exit steps. Wen in, and tried to speak a few words in German to the Polizei man, somehow trusting to meet him in the eyes as total strangers looking at each other back then in those days of being a lone female in Berlin for some dangerous moments in life. He as a pure being…a Christian…as so many are…highly sensitive spiritually and very kind. He reached towards the steps to see if anyone was there. The drunken almost attacker had climbed up the stairs, seen the Polizei sign, and disappeared back below to flee on the next train out.

My word to the Turkish and German train riders of Berlin, particularly at late night train rides where young or older women are bei9ng stalked and potentially attacked by lone drunken or not drunken men, particularly late at night and when travelling alone….step in a speak up and make it known to such men to get well away from their observable victims of assault…sexual assault. Speak up and separate such men from their potential, observable victims. God told me later that 3 passengers close by me in the train knew there was going to be trouble, and said nothing. They watched him stalk aNd harass me, and kept silent. They watched him get off the train to follow into the dark night, and said nothing. Next day they looked out for new of assault or sexual attack. It’s a bit too late to save any young innocent or ignorant person, you realize. You need to speak up and stop the man right when and where you see thing wrongly happening. Even I should have sworn my words down at him, or kicked him right at the beginning. Luckily the Police Station was right at the stair case leading out of the UBahn.

This happens in all sorts of cities in America too, I hear. Don’t sit innocent and prayer. Take right action quite immediately. Speak up and get rid of the intentional disruptors. Overlooking their intention is the big mistake. And watchers also need to assist straight away and speak up loudly against the men such like. Collectively you can protect potential victims when nearly assaulted or being stalked intentionally. For a young woman’s experience it is quite terrible. You get picked on for being a foreigner who cannot speak the language easily, and you get picked of for being a young female. Twice as bad, putting the both together. It was after this time I came to know of my males former lifetimes accumulated through me into the present and latest lifetime, and which lead to recovered my basic innate psychological strength. Other women were strong with maturity and age, and could out-combat any of all this rubbish by their sheer mental and psychological strength of maturity.

Let me say so again, when you see near attacks in the process of happening, step in with words and mouth down or hold down for police to come by for these aggressive attackers, be they males or females. A crowd of people in a train carriage giving verbal remonstrations will block nearly happening assaulters, particularly the ones without weapons.

May we all have safe journeys at all times.

Use your eyes and ears for all warning signals, and don’t ignore any signal if it first appears that things are already out of order.

Anita Punyanitya    October 2016

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Publication Date: 10-06-2016

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Dedication:
Right conduct and human safety needs to be the common attitude between all people, it seems clear to me.