First salary

Date: 25-10-2014

From the day I got the news that I will be paid during my training period, I was super happy. I started planning like I am gonna have millions of bucks to handle. The feeling was awesome. where to spend, do I want to save or not, do I want to spend it on people or on myself...etc. and then I came to know that I will get two months’ salary together but will be given next month. So I was like, OK so wait till next month !!

The remaining days passed and the day finally came. 'I GOT MY FIRST SALARY' on the 1^st of October 2014...yeeiiii!!! I felt beyond awesome I could see payment of my work in my palms and those crisp notes made my whole month. I again planned every little bit of detail of spending two months’ salary.

so just today eve, after spending whole month thinking what to do with my money I went out for the first shopping to be happening from MY SALARY...hehehe !!

I was like 'STOP ME IF YOU CAN !!' ha ha hah haa....I had decided that I will spend my every penny on my pleasure. Now today eve, I have bought myself two pairs of shoes. one is jogging shoes and one are vans...and let me tell you they are pretty awesome.

I have started from toe and now I have long way to go up to my tip of my head. But in order to do that I need raise in my salary. But of course no one is giving me raise just after two months of Training...LOL !! So I am gonna hunt for other opportunities to get myself a awesome treat every month.

Why Me?

Now when I thought where to spend money I had reasons to choose myself above all the people and above all the things i would have done.

Reason No 1

Until now I have spend my life on others happiness and being selfless. Whenever it comes to make others happy, I jumped to the front line for volunteering of selfless service to others.

huh!! I feel so spent. And the best part is people started expecting more of selflessness from me. So now is the time to be selfless to myself and make myself happy for the first time in my life. B)

Reason No 2

I have always got my things from others. Sometimes it’s papa, sometimes it’s Didi sometimes it’s mom, sometimes it’s friends or relatives. Whenever I wanted something extra (as they say), I never got it without reasoning with them. Every time I want the odds or of something I like I had to reason with them and most of the time I had to compromise.

huh!! I feel I was so poor. And the best part is they started giving me what they believe is good for me. I never got to choose. So now is the time to feel rich and spend MY MONEY on my favourite things which I want to buy without explanations exploitations and most importantly without COMPROMISE. :P

Reason No 3

It’s my duty to make myself happy first before making others. Especially when you don’t have boyfriend or a special person who would be happy to pay for your silly demands.    

I do have family who cares about me and give me what I want but hey, not everything. like I said in reason no 2 I had to compromise sometimes. Of course when you are not happy you make others unhappy too. I think it’s my duty to make ME happy first, and then I can think of others. I had never been self aware before. So In process of making everyone glad I forgot to be the one.

Huh!! I feel so pitiful. So now having realised my duty towards me, it’s time to make MYSELF A HAPPY PERSON before I loose all of myself into others’ gladness. B)

Reason No 4

For the sake of pure satisfaction of cherishing myself with my own money. :D

Reason No 5

After spending, I will know what to do with my next salary : P

Aha!! It felt so so soooo good to see myself happy on total expense of my own willingness of spending my first moth salary on ME!!

Act of Duty

Every day I take my dog for a walk. Today I saw a very heartwarming act of duty in my colony. He was not only doing his job but did something for us (residents of colony).

The man is rickshaw driver and he take kids to school every day from our colony and he drives with concern not to hurt or tremble any kids while driving. Many drivers usually do not follow such concerns while driving kids to school.  As usual, today I saw him taking those kids with same concern to the school but he also did something very unusual. He stopped at our colony entrance which is totally wracked and nobody gives damn about it but he did. There are pips laid at the entrance which you have to cross over every day when you enter the colony.  The problem we face every day is that there is gap between pipes’ end and road’s start which has developed over few months and that gap is increasing day by day giving tweak every time to the passing vehicles and you feel really shaken after passing it. so today that rickshaw driver who had no personal interest in colony service or no relation to any of us though stopped his rickshaw at the entrance stepped out and took some stones laying by the roadside and put them in the gap in order to stop the irritating tweaking to the kids sitting in rickshaw.

This is a very eye opening sight for me. If that uncle who is 20-30 years older than me and can do his duty so well, I shouldn't be crying all the time that my office is not fair to me so I won’t work more then I am asked for. He is really a good example of our society for doing his duty without any hesitation and removing unlikely hurdles from our path which I think a step towards humanity. He didn't do it for only those kids but for us too. Now we will have little comfortable pass every time we enter. I feel bad that I see that gap every day and abuse the maintenance people at our colony but never thought that I could have taken few steps by myself too. This event reminds me of Sardar Patel who did something like this in his childhood. He used to walk from his home to his school which is 6-8 miles away from home. Every day at one spot in his pathway, there is a stone in middle of the way which he used to pass it without giving a thought to it. But one day in hurry he hurt himself by stumbling over that stone. He realized then, that he would have put that stone aside when he saw it at first time and now If he does not put it aside then other my person can also hurt himself as he did. So he took the stone and put it aside.

This short story teaches so many lessons to kids and to us also. so as that rickshaw driver. Both had message to give us. So just think once more about uncle at my colony and Sardar Patel in his early age you will find similarities and will learn few lessons from them. I did. I feel more responsible than before by watching this ACT OF DUTY this morning.

Salute to such INDIANS who take their duty seriously and act accordingly.