I don't know how to put it, but lets face a question: How many of us (I mean the "corporate" people) would consider Rs 5/- an earning? If I get a 5 rupees coin lying on the road, I may not make the efforts to bend down and pick it up, or even if I do, I would certainly not consider it as a "gain" or something...!! Similarly, if I loose 5 rupees, I would not mind it, or probably would not even notice.
I had to get my watch repaired a few days back, so I got to a local shop...small, but large just enough to house 5-6 old wall clocks (very old, kind of antiques, with pendulum), a showcase exhibiting a few old watches (supposedly new, to be sold), a desk with a few tools to repair watches and a stool. I showed him my watch, he drew his stool, lit his lamp and put his eye-piece on. It toook him just 3-4 minutes to handle me the stuff in working condition. And all he charged was Rs 5/-. I paid him the amount and headed back to home. On the way back, this thought kept on striking me that he charged only 5 rupees and how many customers he was entertaining on an average, daily. That 5 rupees coin was his "earning".
Just a small (actually negligible) amount for some people, and its the livelihood for some others.
I am not able to put my thought furthur, so I am dropping my pen here. But I really hope that the reader understands and ponders on the feeling the way I do.
2 comments:
Really made me think. But it alwayz makes sense 2 c d glass as half full (like dat man)... rather than half empty :)))
A poignant reminder of hardships the poor mortals need to face to survive the life in a metro (or a ville for that matter)
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