WHO ARE WE?

This incident might be very ridiculous but it touched my heart so I felt like penning it down in the blog..

I live in a huge apartment where there are 200 plus flats. There are around 8 watchmen who take their shift to provide us security 24*7.Whenever anyone goes in or out the security guard duly stands up and salutes. (I fancy that…Old men saluting me!!!! Wow!!)

On one such day I happened to take my bike out for a small ride, while passing the gate, there was a car coming in the opposite direction (The gate is not wide enough for both the car and bike to pass comfortably). Both me and the car driver halted at the entrance, made  way for each other and when I was about to accelerate my pace, the security guard (I hardly noticed him in this little commotion),Who was in saluting position apologized to me and to the car driver. I was taken aback (Why is he apologising to me!!!!! whatever mistake did he do!! Probably he thought saluting to me was wrong!!!).In the hurry to go out I failed to respond and did not enquire him about this.

 While returning back to home, at the same juncture the security guard made me halt abruptly in the mid of the entrance. I put aside my vehicle in a corner and waited for him to explain his sudden behaviour!!

He then explained why he apologized to me when I was going out. Trust me guys his explanation bewildered me...

He said…Before you came madam (MADAM who me??He he… That’s nice to hear!!), there were two cars each coming in opposite direction and halted at the entrance, one of the person in the car scolded me on why he did not warn or give signal beforehand that the other car is coming in the other direction. He blasted out at the poor guard saying that saluting alone is not his job and that he is not paid for that... He is supposed to see whether the vehicle is free to pass at the entrance or not... The guard sincerely asked for an apology but the car driver did not budge... he kept ranting out and finally he concluded that he will report this matter to the committee and will make sure that he does not get this month salary…

And this poor security guard was feeling so scared which resulted, he apologizing me when I was going out of the apartment (lest I don’t shout at him, resulting his two month pay cut!!!)Then the guard went on to say his life story on how he works as a tailor in day and security man at night since his only daughter is doing engineering (Engineering is very much expensive now a days I must add that!!).He then asked me why that man was so rude. Isn’t a security guard a human, shouldn’t he have any feelings? No job is little and he need not feel ashamed of being a guard.

I gave my sympathy and somehow consoled him and moved on...

This little incident might be of minuscule thing but it taught me an important lesson... We might have had a bad day. We might have thousand reasons to get irritated. But does that give us an excuse to vent out our anger on someone else. Spare a minute to think,  had we were in that position how embarrassed we would have felt.

So the next time before you get one of those horrible temper, think whether it is justifiable to pour it on others???(I would recommend, drinking a glass of water to cool the temper!!!!!!)

Someone gave me this beautiful advice which crosses my mind at this juncture…

Who are we, is not decided on how we behave always, its how we react during our difficult times. So decide Who Are You???