Lesson From The Zebra Crossing

I, as a normal human being living in Malaysia, use the zebra crossing as far as I can even thought in some occasions, our careless mind overtakes our sanity, the reason being its too far from my intended crossing point or I want to be quick to get to the other side in this so called fast paced world.

One day Al-Mighty really gave me a good lesson, of not being easily fooled by the devil, which will always want me to be carelessly quick and get me into trouble. I was crossing the KLIA arrival taxi lane to get to Gate 3. As the zebra crossing is further up about 20 meters, I just wanted to dash to the other sides immediately. After looking to my left far a while. I stepped down from the divider and immediately a fast transport van, coming out of thin air, braked in front of me, the driver stared at me from his window, to my amazement.Then suddenly he said, you should use the zebra crossing! 

The path to the arrival lane was, as I realized, is sloping downhill at each ends so it is impossible to see fast moving vehicles coming in. It very dangerous, especially if you try to cross the taxi lane exactly at Gate 3 Local Flight, where I usually use. Its a well learned lesson as I looked at the zebra-crossing for a moment.