Everyday when I leave home heading for office, there’s one person I probably pass by even without much of a notice. It’s been 20 years & more now that this man serves as an watchman in the society where I live.
I just can’t help but admire and learn how this tall, dark man spends his whole day sitting on the chair, taking care of tress-passers ,opening and closing the bldg gate for the vehicles coming in and leaving. I have grown over the years from a youngster to a teen watching him do the same chore everyday and that too with a smile on his face.
His day starts at 6.00 am morning as he has the task of cleaning and washing up cars of residents in our locality. I am just moved by his commitment and dedication to work. Whatever the season may be..summer, winter, rains. Come what may, but nothing stops him from doing his daily duty. By the way I know this as I go for a mrng walk every morning and have been an eyewitness to all his work. There may be days when I can be lazy to get up for my mrng stride but not even the heavy rains or a cold winter mrng stops this man from performing his duty.
Today he must be years older to me but the energy and freshness he has makes me admit that I am more older than him.
Always vigilant as his job demands he even takes care of small things like when there are water-cuts during summers he personally goes to each and every house-hold to inform so that we can store water well in advance. He knows which servant works in which household and the ladies in the society always ask him if they are in a need of a plumber/electrician or a maid and he lets them know whom they can contact instantly.
I being a restless person and almost wide awake as an owl at night spending
my time reading my books if I happen to stand in my gallery for a moment at that time too..i find this man ..in his night shift fully aware and awake safeguarding the whole society while all eyes are fast asleep.
So we all have a lot to learn and “watch” from this “man” and praise the qualities and values he possesses like loyalty to the profession, commitment, dedication and consistent performance everyday.
One lesson which I learnt today is that it all depends on the individual that how can he/she give his best in everything what life offers and no job is small or big ..it’s just depends on how you choose to look at it.
So be happy, keep smiling and feel good in all what God has bestowed on us because such is life’s dearies!!!!!
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well written...the bst sentence was "So we all have a lot to learn and “watch” from this “man” and praise .."... your writing was good..but this article any ordinary person can write. i expect more out of u... try a different perspective try " a day thru the eyes of our watchman".. place urself in his shoes and then pen down what that wathcman thinks of all the things arnd him... what he thinks when he sees affluent kids around..what he feels abt his inability to provide all material comforts to his family as others can... in short, step into someone's shoes and then analyse the world... that will be far more creatively satisfying that analysing a watchman from ur shoes!... keep writing,.
ReplyDeleteyaaa..u r right....will surely impement it..
ReplyDeletepls dont get bogged down my harsh comments.. its just that i know that u can write better.. so when u write an article that any damn person could have written, i do feel like telling u that upfront... write in such a way thta people shld say "abe... ye maine kabhi soch kyun nahi?"..! then u will get a nice content sleep!
ReplyDeleteI am really happy that you take interest in what I write and am happy to recieve your advice and improve...
ReplyDeletegood one, but stil i think instead of writing this short stories , u shld think ab the concept which is based on reality , friction or non friction. what u think is what u see in your day to day life n thats what u r writing in your article , i want u to come up with an IDEA or a whole CONCEPT , but keep it up .
ReplyDeleteits fiction dude
ReplyDeleteokay okay hota hai ,
ReplyDeletereally thats good.most of the people dont think abut the ordinary peoply but u think of writting on a coommon man this a wonderful thing.
ReplyDeletelife is all about learning from seemingly ordinary things in life.. you have got good observation skills, and a heart to appreciate other...
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