The Sandwitch Makes A Difference

While going to my office there was a traffic signal, wherein all vehicles were waiting for the Green Signal to be up. Everyone was waiting to start the push buttons or the pedal kick (for bikes) and the ignition switch (for 4 wheelers and likewise). Usually it is a 90 minutes halt and riders have plenty of time to relax and ponder on things around.

There was one couple in front of me who were perhaps going to their offices as the lady carried tiffin box on her lap which signified that it was for both of them. Anyways, usually at these times, we see beggars who come and ask for the minutest monetary help that anyone can give.

There were 2 kids this time who were maybe only 4 year olds and they were asking all the vehicle owners for some help. Of course, they have been asked to do so by someone - be it their parents or maybe someone else. Anyways, what was heart touching was that these little kids were more keen on the vehicles parts than their real act.

When they came to the couple in front of me, the lady thought for some time, murmurred something to her husband and opened her tiffin box. She took out a bread sandwitch and hand it over to the kids, a piece each.

I can still remember the bewilderment in the eyes of the kids when they saw the sandwitch. It was clear that this was something to eat but what exactly was it, none of them knew. Before I could see what they would have done next, the signal was green.

The kids promptly gave way to the vehicles and after getting on to the sides, as I could see from my rear view mirrror, they first smelled and quietly started eating the sandwitches.

I am not sure as to what does these kids get after they handover the money to someone. But this generous act could be the best way possible to help these needy people, if at all we want to get rid of our doubts (of whether the money we give would be utilized for them or not).

I guess this is the best way that we can help the needy and we can get the satisfaction that someone had soulful food because of us. And that's how we feel that we made a small difference to someone just for a moment perhaps, but that carries the reverberation that would satisfy yourself from you.

How to Become Krish, If Not Lord Rama

I have come across so many kinds and types of people in my life that it is almost impossible to contain or write the characteristics of each one of them.

There are people who are always happy or atleast they seem to be happy but by seeing them you feel that this is a beautiful world, indeed. Suraj Bharjatya's Hum Saath Saath Hai types.

There are people who always look sad and arrogant as though the whole world is a metaphor for Hell.

There are people who are doubtful to be happy or to be sad because they are too emotional to let their feelings out or to keep them in. Its almost like standing in the middle of the road.

There are people who are extraordinarily introvert and sometimes makes you feel that why does NASA spend so much to find something on other planets when the UFO species are beside us.

There are people who are I-will-break-my-head-and-yours extrovert that you feel that this person is run perhaps by a Duracell battery and definitely not by the elements of air for their dictionary does not know the meaning to stop.

There are people who are the perfect fits for the role of Pinnochio and their whole world is full of lies, including they being themselves.

There are people who are the softer and nicer categories who are born to foray on non violence path and for obvious reasons usually ends up at the receiving end.

The list goes on and on....

But there is one thing which is common to all of us and that is our goodness. We all have somethings that we can always learn from others - its upto us whether we take a note and imbibe the goodness in a person or rue about the person's insignificant personality traits.

Choice would always be ours and this small act of imbibing goodness in others and excluding the badness in them will make us improve our own selves as human beings in all aspects. Of course, we can never be like Bhagwan Rama (for he is the Supreme) but yes atleast we can become Krish and be a superhero, if not in the eyes of others but atleast to our own selves.
 

Ode To The Lesser Knowns

I was having lunch in my office cafeteria and was viewing the whole cafeteria hall, seeing faces which were familiar and some unknown. Just then I happened to glance upon the far corner of the hall wherein a lady was standing.

Everyone is supposed to give their completed lunch plates to her where she segregates the waste stuffs on one side and the plates. Waste stuff would later be carried in waste bins and disposed while the plates would be driven (via a wheel - carrier) to the washable area.

The lady has been gathering the waste from so many people. I am not sure as to how many people would really think that she has been making her contribution which many of us would not like to do. Of course the lady is getting paid for the job but just for a moment think on the same lines of the people who cleans our sewage when it gets clogged. There are people who takes up jobs of brooming the roads in the early mornings to make sure that we ply on roads with less dust and pebbles on the road.

Think for a moment that we all help each other in one way or the other and in the whole picture of the world, everyone of us are intertwined in howsoever small way it may be. Let us respect the people who have taken up jobs for their livelihood which I guess, if given a chance to change, they would not think otherwise.

A humble ode to every such person who makes a simple yet big difference in the life's of us to make some things around us in a very comfort enhancing manner.

Who is knocking on the door

 
Someone was knocking on the door,
To Clear things off the floor,
Sometimes meek, sometimes strong,
Voices were longing for long

Someone was knocking on the door,
To Take things off the roof,
Sometimes big, sometimes small,
Prioritize - was the call

Someone was knocking on the door,
Should anyone answer the roar,
If you hear, this will Be The Time,
When mind and heart arrives in Chime

By the way, Who is knocking on the door,
None other than you should answer the More,
For it is You who should enter Yourself,
For it is Me who should knock on Myself,
For it is Him who should Understand Himself,
For it is Self who should Attain Our Selves

A Simple Work Ethic

This was an incident told to me by one of my colleague. She happens to be a developer and had narrated an incident which made me take note of one of the aspect of work ethics that we should all ideally follow.

There was some mail chains and discussions going on for the implementation of a goal in the coming release cycle in her project. It so happened that the developer and two of the Production Users happened to be in the same lift while all were going to have lunch.

One of the production user, upon seeing the developer in the lift, started the discussion about the project. The other user, promptly holded  his friends hand and said "Bro, this is not the ideal time to discuss about of our projects. This is the break time. We should ideally talk about these during the working hours." And his friend had no other option than to abide.

This incident looks small and non-significant but what has happened here was a simple work ethics was demonstrated. Sometimes in our IT Industry, being a Quality Analyst or Business Analyst or a Developer, we take tasks as personal even during the non-working hours, which is indeed wrong.

Let us keep aside any differences with our colleagues and be a normal human being outside our workplace. It helps maintain the peace and serenity around and helps looking at things afresh.