Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Keep an eye to everything ,life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.



There’s been always debate over classy vs unclassy. The classy enjoy meals, dinner and breakfast in a restaurant paying VAT, service tax and additional taxes but they argue or doubt over the freshness of a vegetable in a market (by market I never ever mean Reliance fresh). Its freezed packaged decorated vegetables which may suit to their reputation and class but aren’t enough to provide them with required vitamins and minerals and resulting in a poor immunity level. They doubt over the freshness of vegetables but they dare to raise a question over packaged and decorated food items in stores. I don’t know how did consuming Bel juice or original mango juice became unclassy over having slice (which itself says its aerated drink and contains added flavored taste , brands like Frooti, Maaza, Slice and Jumpin' have flavors added to them. The blog is not about classy vs unclassy. It’s over honesty vs hypocrisy. Advertisement vs truth, men vs real men.

Days back, one of my senior mate Ravi Saxena (works in Wabco) needed a haircut .I suggested him Luks and other fancy hair cutting saloons because he earns now and can afford a rs 150 haircut but he refused saying he’s been to same barber  for 13 years and rarely miss him. We reached the hair cutting shop .The barber was busy with some other costumer who looked like a government official and was telling him of the incidents that aren’t known to locals. Next was our turn. The man gave him rs 500 and the barber had no change .He asked us for change. We too had none. The man said he’ll be back with the change amount. He left, meanwhile it was almost half an hour there. I was busy playing tap the frog game on his phone and was trying  to beat the high score set by him but couldn’t do it. Later I came to know the score was set by her teen cousin who is eight years old and I couldn't even beat her .It was now 50 minutes and now the barber began investing how long did it took to have get money changed. He asked your permission to go and have a look around. He went to look over the places I too followed him to a little distance but found none looking like the man. The barber came back empty heated and began cutting Ravi bhaiya’s hair. He said “लगता  है ,आज  40 रुपया  का  घाटा  हो गया। दो  किलो  आटा  का  दाम  लेगया  वो  आदमी(mind it ,cost of wheat is rs 22/kg)I go shopping with mom. You can’t skip mothers. It took me into deep thought how much those 40 rupees meant to him and how dishonest was the man who didn’t even bother to return him the amount. We were around the place for about 3 hours which included bank works also but found no sign of the man. How can one be so cruel and dishonest to these people, in fact why only them why being dishonest to anyone? We take money from people then forget it. Thinking the amount to be in little we forget to give it back but that little amount matter to them very much. We don’t care about the consequences. What is merely rs 40 for us, may mean survival to them.

The class can be modest with their tone in malls, shopping complexes but their reality comes out it real market. Their yelling, over rs 1 or 5 can be easily heard in market. You may also come over real creepy guys out there in market who refuse taking vegetables without being given in plastic because vegetables gets mixed up. How’s that a reason to have a polythene bag. Luckily my mom doesn’t take things in polythene. I am not fully against them but there’s got to be civic sense. Nowadays, there is prime time debate over gau-rakshaks, who are beating up innocent people and letting go those plastic in throats of cows. If they really want to protect them and being meaningful. They should do the duty with sensible attitude and think of management of plastics bags and protecting cows from consuming them.

I am too a part of classy sometimes but luckily I have a mother who sends me back to fakira to give them back rs 50 because they paid her extra and in return  I paid policemen rs 200 because I wasn’t  wearing a helmet. Well that's my fault because she warned me to wear it. You should always listen to women. I don’t know how they can see future or maybe they decide your future upcoming. It’s been weeks back when, me and my friend, UPS (Uday Pratap Singh) and Alok went to our school to have some papers on my scooty (people who know me those 2 years know about my scooty, others may skip this part).While going to school UPS saw a girl, who’s been 100% guarantee unlucky to me and my best friend Harsh since school days. It was all good up to then .we went to school, had our papers. When we came back to parking .we saw my scooty punctured. Everybody knows the nearest reach of puncture shop from DAV, nit. We pushing our scooty, in fact only I was pushing scooty and brought it to a puncture shop .The shopkeeper was about 5 years older than us. He looked after the tyres condition and told us that the bill would be about rs 45.we had that amount. Until UPS bought a water bottle of Rs 15 and bringing our budget to rs 30.After half an hour he told the bill is Rs 60.Each one of us were shocked ,what to do. Finally, I persuaded him to take Rs 30 and told, ‘we are regular visitors and he’ll have the left amount soon.it has been 2 months now until we had visited him. Finally I gave him the amount after the incident happened with me at the barber’s shop. Maybe it meant nothing to me but it would have been a lot sum to him. He was surprised to have money back also I could see having faith in honesty back in his eyes. It was a moment of realization.
If you ever have an encounter with anything of such things, do pay them with our honesty .They may not need your money every time. Give them our trust they may ask for money later. Set examples for coming generations keeping in mind we ourselves are trending generation. Do things for yourselves just to make yourself happy. It isn’t about class or society. We just need to figure one thing what we are, where do we come from and what makes us different from others and what difference we have made around us.
If we didn’t make any. I am afraid our role for nation isn’t considered. I suggest you to take small steps, bigger ones will follow by. There’s okay with things you can’t do it. 

There are many things you can’t but at least do things what you can.
Keep an eye to everything, life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. You could miss the essence of your presence on earth.



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