Recent turn of events has imposed this line of thought upon me in a mannerism I find revolting. 'People earn what they deserve'. No. This statement is evidence of epitome stupidity.
Fighting with people out & out demanding better living conditions does not suffice. Cribbing about the lost virtues of humanity & being a socialist zealot is all seemingly a facade. Losing people around myself, being told to come back to reality, such redundant speeches.
Escaping won't do good no more. It is indeed naive though that there still exists a school of thought that people earn what they deserve. People don't.
I am in Kolkata. I still see people pulling hand rickshaws. Just today, for again the nth time, felt guilty of my weight. I paid him double, still no escaping the fact 100 rs. for bearing me cannot be enough. Could I have paid more? yes. Did I? No.
Why? Just not sure. Not sure how much would be enough. My limited money was dear to me. He was less important than me. Just then, came flashing back, a remark which brought me crashing to the ground reality of the people in position of power, of affluence. People like me, we still somewhere believe, that people earn what they deserve.
Such utter rubbish. No one earns what they deserve. People earn what they possible can by suffocating their morale, killing their sense of empathy and the ache of guilt knowing full well what they earn is unjust. I cannot earn 10 times more than my janitor, no matter what. He does a more important job of keeping my toilet disease free & therefore me healthy. What the hell do I do? Push papers so some one somewhere can push some more papers & some corporate can sell some more fancy waste & con some more idiots.
Dil se, pyaar mohhabat se, do i really believe we would not survive the 21st century minus McDs & Dominoes.
I did nothing past 5 years, absolutely nothing credible to give me the sum I earned. Pushing papers, only coz. my father could afford fancy schools. What I don't get however is this, Why does something so obvious, so plebeian bother me at all. It is a very known fact.
Wealth is unequally distributed, we know that. Within the same realm of this vintage city, I have witnessed families of the raj era, politicians with their so called 'love money' from their patrons, 14 hr dog day slaves who get told on paper that their line of duty is from 9 - 5, yet get idiotic smart phones, fancy pant laptops & other devices to hook them 24X7, plus credit cards & greasy secretaries & ofcourse the ever charming boss, who inspires the slave. We have businesses run by the Sahib with the labor of the refugees, we have workshops fuelled by the mistries whose toil gets blurred beneath the smog of union politics.
It is fine to really splurge if you can. I love wearing my diamond nose pin. It is tiny, but it is my pride & ofcourse a luxury which I can do well without & pay my house help a bit more.
So why the hell I am trying to prove I am a cut above the rest, when I too am the same sleaze bag. Perhaps, all I am trying to say is that, it is ok to be bad. Just admit it. About time I give up preaching what needs to be done to make this world a better place to live. It is hopeless for I cant manage the standards myself. But no one earns what they deserve. No one deserves 100 rs. for dragging 70Kgs for full length of an hour. This I admit & pray people realize & stop being so smug about their pay checks.
Despite all of it, my gurer shondesh & multitude of machh continues. Nor will I lessen my food intake, nor will I lose weight, plus I will still ride rickshaws & pay them abysmally low. Likewise, corporates will chase high end realty, Porsche & Lamborghini will still be sold and minimum wage rate figure will keep declining and working hours will steadily increase. 12 hrs just not enough if my father ain't Richie rich.
People dont earn what they deserve. People earn what they can scavenge. It is a dog fight. A toss of a dice which puts you in a rickshaw dragging line, a B school, a politicians lineage or a kendriya vidyalay with god fearing parenting efforts.
Need a definition of human beings. It just seems too blurred with so many contending species.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world. ;D
Fighting with people out & out demanding better living conditions does not suffice. Cribbing about the lost virtues of humanity & being a socialist zealot is all seemingly a facade. Losing people around myself, being told to come back to reality, such redundant speeches.
Escaping won't do good no more. It is indeed naive though that there still exists a school of thought that people earn what they deserve. People don't.
I am in Kolkata. I still see people pulling hand rickshaws. Just today, for again the nth time, felt guilty of my weight. I paid him double, still no escaping the fact 100 rs. for bearing me cannot be enough. Could I have paid more? yes. Did I? No.
Why? Just not sure. Not sure how much would be enough. My limited money was dear to me. He was less important than me. Just then, came flashing back, a remark which brought me crashing to the ground reality of the people in position of power, of affluence. People like me, we still somewhere believe, that people earn what they deserve.
Such utter rubbish. No one earns what they deserve. People earn what they possible can by suffocating their morale, killing their sense of empathy and the ache of guilt knowing full well what they earn is unjust. I cannot earn 10 times more than my janitor, no matter what. He does a more important job of keeping my toilet disease free & therefore me healthy. What the hell do I do? Push papers so some one somewhere can push some more papers & some corporate can sell some more fancy waste & con some more idiots.
Dil se, pyaar mohhabat se, do i really believe we would not survive the 21st century minus McDs & Dominoes.
I did nothing past 5 years, absolutely nothing credible to give me the sum I earned. Pushing papers, only coz. my father could afford fancy schools. What I don't get however is this, Why does something so obvious, so plebeian bother me at all. It is a very known fact.
Wealth is unequally distributed, we know that. Within the same realm of this vintage city, I have witnessed families of the raj era, politicians with their so called 'love money' from their patrons, 14 hr dog day slaves who get told on paper that their line of duty is from 9 - 5, yet get idiotic smart phones, fancy pant laptops & other devices to hook them 24X7, plus credit cards & greasy secretaries & ofcourse the ever charming boss, who inspires the slave. We have businesses run by the Sahib with the labor of the refugees, we have workshops fuelled by the mistries whose toil gets blurred beneath the smog of union politics.
It is fine to really splurge if you can. I love wearing my diamond nose pin. It is tiny, but it is my pride & ofcourse a luxury which I can do well without & pay my house help a bit more.
So why the hell I am trying to prove I am a cut above the rest, when I too am the same sleaze bag. Perhaps, all I am trying to say is that, it is ok to be bad. Just admit it. About time I give up preaching what needs to be done to make this world a better place to live. It is hopeless for I cant manage the standards myself. But no one earns what they deserve. No one deserves 100 rs. for dragging 70Kgs for full length of an hour. This I admit & pray people realize & stop being so smug about their pay checks.
Despite all of it, my gurer shondesh & multitude of machh continues. Nor will I lessen my food intake, nor will I lose weight, plus I will still ride rickshaws & pay them abysmally low. Likewise, corporates will chase high end realty, Porsche & Lamborghini will still be sold and minimum wage rate figure will keep declining and working hours will steadily increase. 12 hrs just not enough if my father ain't Richie rich.
People dont earn what they deserve. People earn what they can scavenge. It is a dog fight. A toss of a dice which puts you in a rickshaw dragging line, a B school, a politicians lineage or a kendriya vidyalay with god fearing parenting efforts.
Need a definition of human beings. It just seems too blurred with so many contending species.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world. ;D