Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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.