Each day I wake up with an alarm blasting into my ears, each day I grow up with mini-warnings in my head to step ahead in my life, each day I walk through the corridors of my building with worries that can hold me back during the day, each day I work, study and enjoy hoping everything remains the same, each day I go back to sleep with a prayer that have kept me alive for the day and a slight fret that could be possible on the next day and finally, each day I dream about a better day in my sleep. Why?
That is not me; I am referring to whole world citizens. If a person says that I don’t have such worries, yes you don’t, on face but the conscience knows everything. Smidgen of your heart sulks on every petty thing you lose. Now that's just my theory. Brace yourself; I think this is going to be long.
Few weeks back I was traveling in a bus to Pune and this man sitting beside me was speaking with loudest voice in the bus on phone, he was scolding somebody over materials not being delivered to the site for the construction. After all that chaotic conversation, he released a breath from under his nose and looked around. We were startled and sort of intimidated by his nuances. He saw me turning my face from him when hung up the phone, so he started a small talk with me. Small talk involved weather issues, window slider being stuck, etc etc. I was surprised with his tone, since it was very soft. I showed reluctance to speak with him anyway, a stranger is a stranger. Then he went on saying about how he ordered lifts and other home amenities for a project in Pune and lastly revealed the sum of amount invested for such order by his company. I was baffled, at first, but then I came back to senses. One of my relatives is also involved in such businesses, which are acting like a third party for the orders and stuff. One sentence which took me being baffled to empathize to respect was "I order almost for 7-10 crores daily, but (shrugs and smirks at the same time) doesn’t even care to buy myself a shirt or cloth piece for mere 200 bucks". Okay now this guy is not the richest, but he is a decently paid employee of his company, he informs and he have no qualms in spending so much, because he isn’t that thrifty and can give away money to anybody in need. But what the future holds he doesn’t know, hence he chooses to save up for him, his wife and his 2 kids and some fun fortunate world trips and the world, if need be.
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Yesterday on my way home, I got into a auto-rickshaw after lot of struggle. Not because there were no rickshaws for the ride but the drivers won’t move the vehicles by orders of their unions. Some kind of strike was going on and rickshawalas had been instructed not to drive them till it is 10 at night. I was blessed in the disguise of this uncle (and yes he was an uncle, old enough and addressed me as beta (their child)). Since he was going against the petition which was passing around for reserved rights for drivers, he was very frustrated by the law and couldn't stop complaining about them. He believed only out country is being affected. I informed him the inflation is everywhere so is this kind of situation, it happens everywhere. However he had his opinion, he went on how the price has increased almost the 10 times for fuels and only 2 times for vegetables. He was of the opinion that farmers are the most affected and we, the educated crowd has a right to earn and how they are not. I tried to pacify him, it is not the case, everybody has their own right et al. He was too opinionated by blindness that the government has put him through, not his fault. Still sympathy beckons to him from me for the awareness he had in mind for people like him and me overall, maturity shows, so the humanity. Because at the end of the day it was for the people, he said and he will do anything for anyone if it is the right thing to do. My point is, he had his worries, but he still felt for the people around and its betterment and I realize this is not a good example for what the topic was of, which I blabbered about for last 5 minutes.
Lesson: Worries are part and parcel of life. Live it and you will enjoy your life. Also, it will make you learn several lessons unknowingly, that’s what the instances above are for.
