This post is a result of a forward that I saw in the social media. The clip was about a a bear sauntering on an empty road. The bear sights a traffic cone pin toppled on the side of the road. It straightens the pin before continuing along the lonely road.
It was a great lesson for all of us who say, 'It is not my job.'
However, something happened that very day that changed my world view a bit.
Our house is hemmed in with coconut trees that belong to our neighbouring house. The close proximity of the trees is such that the leaves and fruits often fall on the terrace of our house. This is actually a big menace. Indeed, this can sometimes cause injury. In fact, at regular intervals, leaves from the trees fall on the telephone wires, on Television cables, snapping them and leaving us without telephone and cable connection.
Our neighbour, at regular intervals gets the coconuts plucked from the trees by professionals. Alongside, she also gets the old leaves of the trees yanked and cut so that it minimises the danger of leaves falling from the tree without warning.
However, yanking of huge coconut leaves does leave a huge mess on our terrace. If some coconuts fall on our terrace during the plucking time, she would ask for them. But our terrace would remain a big mess till we cleaned it up.
It was plucking season again in this lockdown time. But it was a bit unusual. A new neighbour had moved in recently. She came and asked us to move our car parked outside so that the falling coconut or coconut leaves do not dent the car. We were a bit surprised.
But what left us totally dumbfounded was when she with her young son came at our door with a broom after the plucking was over. She said, 'We want to clean your terrace.'
I said, 'It's ok. We'll clean it ourselves.'
'No, it's my job!' she insisted.
She not only cleared the mess, she even took away all the leaves and other peelings in a tractor trolley for further disposal.
Has the world changed a bit during lockdown?
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It was a great lesson for all of us who say, 'It is not my job.'
However, something happened that very day that changed my world view a bit.
Our house is hemmed in with coconut trees that belong to our neighbouring house. The close proximity of the trees is such that the leaves and fruits often fall on the terrace of our house. This is actually a big menace. Indeed, this can sometimes cause injury. In fact, at regular intervals, leaves from the trees fall on the telephone wires, on Television cables, snapping them and leaving us without telephone and cable connection.
Our neighbour, at regular intervals gets the coconuts plucked from the trees by professionals. Alongside, she also gets the old leaves of the trees yanked and cut so that it minimises the danger of leaves falling from the tree without warning.
However, yanking of huge coconut leaves does leave a huge mess on our terrace. If some coconuts fall on our terrace during the plucking time, she would ask for them. But our terrace would remain a big mess till we cleaned it up.
It was plucking season again in this lockdown time. But it was a bit unusual. A new neighbour had moved in recently. She came and asked us to move our car parked outside so that the falling coconut or coconut leaves do not dent the car. We were a bit surprised.
But what left us totally dumbfounded was when she with her young son came at our door with a broom after the plucking was over. She said, 'We want to clean your terrace.'
I said, 'It's ok. We'll clean it ourselves.'
'No, it's my job!' she insisted.
She not only cleared the mess, she even took away all the leaves and other peelings in a tractor trolley for further disposal.
Has the world changed a bit during lockdown?
3 comments:
Yes Ashish. The world seems to have become more responsible in Corona times. Good social gesture by your neighbours. Jai Bengaluru :) -
The world hasn't changed, your neighbour has ! She just showed us all, what humanity is all about . Had the previous neighbour done this, you could have given credit to the lockdown
Your new neighbour is a more evolved person. Certainly not the effect of the lockdown, which, like other crises has brought out the best and the worst in people, depending on their innate qualities
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