It's a strange question when a senior asks, "How did you earn your bread today?" "What did you do today?" It's just a question, but when asked, it could iether be just a question or it could be an implying sarcastic answer itself that the person gives.
It's sort of funny. Most elders feel that their times were hard, they did more than we ever do. It is true. And they also think we dont do a damn thing.
In a way, reminds me of a joke I once read. A man returns home and finds his house in a mess, the sitting room was not arranged, the dishes were not clean, the dirty clothes were lying all aroiund. He looks at his wife sitting on a couch and asks, "What happened?" the wife replies, you return home and ask me everyday what did i do; well, today i didn't do it."
"So, how did you earn your bread today" is the big question. Funny that in academy, the creative writing club once wrote a comic piece on how the cadets earn their stipend. each rolling, each push up, each whiskey (a punishment in which you raise a finger and rotate at a speed promoting no 1 whiskey), each camel carry and every wierd punishment of academy was valued in rupees.
Now I'm not the kind of person who will start giving account of every job I did and measure it up to my ration scale. Spare me. that was only good in academy, just to laugh off our tough times.
Alright, so you wanna know how I earned my bread today. Besides the job that is routine and not to mention, I, rather all of us serving in the forces are giving ourselves to the organisation by being at the organisation's dispense both at the highest and the lowest level. Whenever and wherever asked, we do as ordered and also dont do as ordered not to. I'm in one corner of the country today, send me to another corner as and when you require. I'm available to do all the jobs.
I may be wrong and also people can take me wrongly. I don't say that i'll do nothing and yet I deserve to earn what I do. I too feel that the organisation gives us the same wheather or not we contribute to it. (just like a sarkari job). I too feel a lack of professional and creative satisfaction at times (maybe often). But somehow, making us ponder over or give an answer to our worthiness to our daily bread is still not a pleasant thing. After all, even a man on sick leave gets his food. Will you now kill him making him think of himself as a liability who did nothing while he was sick.
"How did I earn my bread today?" It's something that individuals should ask oneself and not one another.
It's sort of funny. Most elders feel that their times were hard, they did more than we ever do. It is true. And they also think we dont do a damn thing.
In a way, reminds me of a joke I once read. A man returns home and finds his house in a mess, the sitting room was not arranged, the dishes were not clean, the dirty clothes were lying all aroiund. He looks at his wife sitting on a couch and asks, "What happened?" the wife replies, you return home and ask me everyday what did i do; well, today i didn't do it."
"So, how did you earn your bread today" is the big question. Funny that in academy, the creative writing club once wrote a comic piece on how the cadets earn their stipend. each rolling, each push up, each whiskey (a punishment in which you raise a finger and rotate at a speed promoting no 1 whiskey), each camel carry and every wierd punishment of academy was valued in rupees.
Now I'm not the kind of person who will start giving account of every job I did and measure it up to my ration scale. Spare me. that was only good in academy, just to laugh off our tough times.
Alright, so you wanna know how I earned my bread today. Besides the job that is routine and not to mention, I, rather all of us serving in the forces are giving ourselves to the organisation by being at the organisation's dispense both at the highest and the lowest level. Whenever and wherever asked, we do as ordered and also dont do as ordered not to. I'm in one corner of the country today, send me to another corner as and when you require. I'm available to do all the jobs.
I may be wrong and also people can take me wrongly. I don't say that i'll do nothing and yet I deserve to earn what I do. I too feel that the organisation gives us the same wheather or not we contribute to it. (just like a sarkari job). I too feel a lack of professional and creative satisfaction at times (maybe often). But somehow, making us ponder over or give an answer to our worthiness to our daily bread is still not a pleasant thing. After all, even a man on sick leave gets his food. Will you now kill him making him think of himself as a liability who did nothing while he was sick.
"How did I earn my bread today?" It's something that individuals should ask oneself and not one another.
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