Just felt a pain in my heart. Reason? It all started from our mess. Yeah, lot of things these days start from there. But this one really had an impact. Went there for dinner with friends. Food quality was bad as usual. Rotis were hard and burnt. I din’t feel like eating them. But the mess guy without asking me whether I wanted them or not, put them in my plate. I din’t bother much. Took some rice and had my dinner with them and threw away those Rotis. Just then, I saw a man come inside the mess. He looked like one of the construction workers. He went to the counter, gave 2 or 3 coins to the manager and walked away with 4 rotis in hand with nothing else to eat. As he walked out of the mess door, he started eating those plain Rotis and while doing so, went out of sight.
I felt really ashamed ! What had I done just now? We have got our parents’ resources and we are wasting them like anything. 50 bucks is the normal expenditure per day for me, even though almost all our expenses have already been paid. Parties and things count seperate. For some, it would be even higher. I told this incident to Nrapesh. His reaction was that even if I hadn’t thrown those Rotis, how would I have been able to help him? Well, he seems right too. But I am just not able to accept it. Don’t know why ! But something about this incident is making me really upset. It feels like we have developed the habit of complaining. We haven’t got this, we haven’t got that. But we never think about what we have got. We just see what is missing. Shit man, where are we going?
P.S. Never felt like this in my whole life. Don’t know either how long the impact is going to be.
fortunately or unfortunately … feelings much much volatile then memory … !!
This posts reminds me of a time when I was traveling by bus from Ajmer to Kota. The bus happened to be a local one, and I was probably the only literate passenger on the bus. The whole time I spent reading people’s tickets, counting their money, how much they should demand from the conductor and so on. Some of these passengers were 20 somethings. By the time, the journey ended, I was crazy at this state of affairs in 21st century India.
Shit happens in the world. Just remain conscious that there are people less fortunate than you in this world, and I’m sure it’ll add to the good things you’ll do in your life.
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Nice post…..really we never think and we r never satisfied with what all we have. Some incidents like this force us to think.
good thought dude ..but i guess u were no where wrong !!Wat i believe is ki .. Everything is forced by circumstances .n mess rotis r really horrible !!