Couple of weeks ago , I went to buy vegetables
from ‘Horticorp’ – Kerala government’s outlet for fruits and vegetables. The
vegetables are very reasonably priced and though not the best quality, I don’t
have much complaints and last 5 years we have been buying veggies from
there. Every day produce comes around 11 am and by the time they feed in the
rates in the system and get ready to sell
its usually long queue till 1 pm and you can see the people being very
impatient and rude while they stand in queue taking vegetables and paying
bill.. I went around 12:30 anticipating lesser crowd , and yes there were just
3-4 people but each with 2-3 baskets of vegetables .... I decided I will not
hurry and started picking vegetable, I was almost done and had around 7-8 items
. It is around this time one lady came in, she was looking for Beans, the
people at the shop were busy packing vegetables, I smiled at her and showed
where the Beans was kept, she then picked 2 more items looked at me and stood
behind me, when my turn of billing was about to come I looked at her and asked
to bill hers as hers was only 3 items and I was not in too much hurry . She
smiled at me and got her vegetables billed.
My next stop was at grocery shop where I had few
items to pick, I was looking out for semolina, there were 2-3 sales women, but
nobody offered any help , then suddenly I heard one woman asking ‘What are you
looking for madam?’ I turned around and saw the same lady whom I had met at
vegetable shop smiling at me . I said semolina, she got me one packet of it and
asked me if I needed anything else – I smiled at her and said – so you work
here, I figured out she had taken few minutes off her duty to buy vegetables and
had to rush back to work. In recent past this was the best example of ‘Give a Little Love , you can get a little
love of your own ‘ I wanted to write this story the day it happened, but then
thought its such a small incident ... then few days back I saw one of my friend
commenting on her friend’s post – somehow I thought of checking the link and it
was video on ‘ A few minutes of perfection’ and realized how important it has
become to show little love, to show you care for people around you ....
Looking back recollect moments – when you had
become Teddy bear for your friend/colleague who lost their dear one , when you had rushed to help someone who had
sprained leg or hand while playing , when
you saw a road accident happening rushing to pick the small girl/boy or adult who had fallen on the middle of the busy road
, at office when you saw your friend frustrated and instead of inquiring what
is wrong, just giving the person confidence that this phase will also pass by, when
you asked the bus driver to stop on seeing a person running to catch the bus, when
you offered your seat to a senior citizen or pregnant women, when you offered
to share your umbrella while walking in the rain, when you gave somebody lift
while going to office, when you packed extra cookies, pasta or chicken for your
children for them to share with their friends , when you helped a senior
citizen/blind person cross road, when you helped your neighbor pack things
while shifting, when you spent few hours with people at old age home or orphanage
– listening to their stories, crying with them
or singing and laughing with them, giving some flowers or cookies or
some token of appreciation, or just smiling and saying Hi to people whom you
see almost daily working around you at different places .... Think about those
moments and you will recognize how happy you were , how good the day had gone :)
Everybody is in rat race trying to be successful,
trying to make name and mark , trying to prove being smarter than others around
... cut throat competition , and most of the time we get to hear stories of
betrayal, foul play, playing favorites using contacts for personal benefits,
clash of ego, .... compared to that we rarely hear stories of sharing love,
compassion or being unselfish ..... .. am not saying that world is safe and perfect ,
people will betray you , you will feel cheated, taken for granted but I understand how important it has become to share
stories of sharing and caring , stories about unselfish love – of doing
something without expecting anything in
return ... .. ‘Give a Little Love , you can get a little love of your own ‘
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