It had been a long time since It made my last post. What to do, life sometimes makes people busy. In all my previous posts I have discussed about Finance sufficiently. I think its time to take a diversion in my discussion. As I had already mentioned I would like to maintain this blog for sharing all the information that I had learn't in my life. On that ground here is a post which expresses my learning from the society.
I strongly believe that the world surrounding you teaches you a lot than anyone who is intentionally want to train you on something. So it is always better to have your eyes and ears open in order to receive from our surroundings.
This incident which I am about to quote happened to me when I was studying 1st year of my Engineering Degree. It was a Friday, an auspicious day too. Being so it was pre decided by my family to open a new Business Service Outlet on that day. Since me being a part of the family couldn’t skip those occasions. A few closely associated family friends and relatives were invited on that day for the opening of the new outlet. The new outlet was located 15 kilometers away from my college premises. The opening was planned in the morning and I was on a dilemma whether to attend my afternoon sessions of college or not. Our college lunch timings were from 12:45PM to 1:30PM. At 12:30 PM I came to crude decision of attending the afternoon sessions of that day. So I hurriedly got ready and left that function spot by 12:40PM. Since I, being in my first year of College life, was not provided with two wheeler for my travel to college. I used to travel only through town buses. It was a long way for me to make it out. I had to change two buses in order to reach the location where my college is located. Then after that I had to make a walk of 2 kilometers from the main road to the interior to reach my college premises and again a walk of 1 kilometer from the main gate of my college to my class room after crossing a bare ground in the hot grueling sun. All the way of my travel I was in the hope of reaching the class on time. The first session in the afternoon was EM, a short form for Engineering Mechanics. The subject itself was a tough one. In addition to that the faculty in charge was a person who used to make fun of the students when they go wrong somewhere or somehow. With all these in mind and situation being so, all my intention was to reach the class room before 1:30PM (before the entry of my Prof).
But without proper planning nothing should be expected. By the time I reached the main road near my college the time was about 1:25PM. Still I had a three kilometers walk left to reach my destination. This should be done in remaining 5 minutes. A breathe taking job to be completed in such a short period of time. As I started my walk from the bus stand towards my college premises I was hoping to get some free ride on that road at that point of time. The sun was at its best peeping out completely to burn everything under it. I was literally running in that road in order to reach the class in time. I showed my hand sign for a free lift initially to two persons who were riding their bike alone. But both of them dint even stop their bikes.
Then I made my attempt to the third another person traveling in a Bajaj Pulsar bike. Even that was in vain. Following this bike there came a TVS50 Moped on that road. The Moped was already fully loaded with two persons. So I was not in the intention of stopping that Moped for a free ride. But the Head Light of that Moped was in ‘on’ state. So I showed the typical hand signal followed by the Indians for indicating the “Lights ON” condition in the road to the vehicles that pass by them. Seeing this the person, who drives that Moped, misunderstood that I was asking him for a free ride. As he passed by me without stopping he told me that it was not possible for him to give me a free ride as there were already two in the Moped. In turn I replied him that I was not asking him for a free ride but I was indicating him that his Head Light was in ‘on’ state. All these conversations took place in a fraction of seconds’ time with that Moped in moving condition. Hearing my reply the driver of that Moped stopped his bike after making a few distance of yards travel on that road. This ‘few yards of distance’ travel time was the time taken by that person to realize my helping nature without any intention of returns from him. The driver of that Moped then made a steep turn of his body and asked me where I was heading. I replied him that I was on my way to the college which was on the way of his travel. After uttering my destination spot he immediately offered me a free ride in spite of the fact that the Moped was already on its fullest possible mode. He immediately ordered his pillion rider to move in front so that I could possibly take a share of the Moped seat which they both were already occupying.
This action of that Moped driver made me to realize the fact which my father used to say often to me at home. Whenever we do some favour to others without any expectation of returns we would definitely get the pay back double the times of the favour that we do. This was evident on that day by the action of the Moped driver. He could have left me on the road just by saying a ‘thanks’. Moreover he was not in the condition to help me. But in spite of all those things he took pains to help me in that time of need because of the favour which I did to him without any expectations from him. This was a great lesson which the society had thought me practically in my real life. Because of that I was able to reach the class on time with a fraction of seconds’ difference between my entry followed by my EM Prof’s entry. If it had been the other way around then my classmates would have had a fun filled time for the initial fifteen minutes of that class session as he would have teased me to the core on that day. Thank God, I was escaped on that day. And thanks to that Moped Driver too.
Hope this post had some sense. Meet you soon in my next post wandering on some new dimension.
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