A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE
I work in a fairly midsized organization where we get acquainted to almost everyone in the organization inclusive of security, and related levels.
An incident that makes me recollect is the million dollar smile. Whenever I spin my mind out of work, an innocent smile that the security guard of my office had on his face the other day splashes my mind ever and anon.
Usually we have 2 guards who share their duty as one work in the morning and the other work in the night. The guard who works in the morning is a little aged, he is in mid 60’s and work with harder difficulty and somehow manages to come to office. The guy who works in the night is equally hardworking and should be in mid 40’s I guess. He looks like a Nepalian.
The security guard who was supposed to work in the morning fell ill all of a sudden and the night guard had to take over both the shifts inevitably. I used to consecutively see him both in mornings and nights for almost ten days and I finally asked if he did not return back to his house. He said he never got an opportunity to go back home in any of these ten days, as there were no one to take care of the office. The agency people denied to get a replacement for those ten days and insisted him to work for all the ten days.
One fine day in the late evening, I had been out with my colleague for half an hour and caught an auto to return to office as it was raining profusely. As soon as we got down from the auto, we could barely see someone waving their hand at the auto asking if that auto person could give him a drop. We walked a little to see who would that be, and it was our office security guard. He waved his hands at the auto and checked with him if he could drop him to the said location.
I closely noticed that security guard, when he was about to board the auto. It all looked as though, this guy had saved all his smiles and spent it when he learnt the fact that, he too could avail the privilege of going home. Looked as though he spent a million dollar to buy that happiness to get back to his house.
I just thought in my mind that, we crib for little things, crave for big, never satisfied with whatever we have, but understood a simple fact from this man that, life is all about how we make it. There are people who work harder than us, starve, and crave for a meal a day. This incident and the innocent smile brought in hundreds of thoughts in my mind and a message to the present youths.
I work in a fairly midsized organization where we get acquainted to almost everyone in the organization inclusive of security, and related levels.
An incident that makes me recollect is the million dollar smile. Whenever I spin my mind out of work, an innocent smile that the security guard of my office had on his face the other day splashes my mind ever and anon.
Usually we have 2 guards who share their duty as one work in the morning and the other work in the night. The guard who works in the morning is a little aged, he is in mid 60’s and work with harder difficulty and somehow manages to come to office. The guy who works in the night is equally hardworking and should be in mid 40’s I guess. He looks like a Nepalian.
The security guard who was supposed to work in the morning fell ill all of a sudden and the night guard had to take over both the shifts inevitably. I used to consecutively see him both in mornings and nights for almost ten days and I finally asked if he did not return back to his house. He said he never got an opportunity to go back home in any of these ten days, as there were no one to take care of the office. The agency people denied to get a replacement for those ten days and insisted him to work for all the ten days.
One fine day in the late evening, I had been out with my colleague for half an hour and caught an auto to return to office as it was raining profusely. As soon as we got down from the auto, we could barely see someone waving their hand at the auto asking if that auto person could give him a drop. We walked a little to see who would that be, and it was our office security guard. He waved his hands at the auto and checked with him if he could drop him to the said location.
I closely noticed that security guard, when he was about to board the auto. It all looked as though, this guy had saved all his smiles and spent it when he learnt the fact that, he too could avail the privilege of going home. Looked as though he spent a million dollar to buy that happiness to get back to his house.
I just thought in my mind that, we crib for little things, crave for big, never satisfied with whatever we have, but understood a simple fact from this man that, life is all about how we make it. There are people who work harder than us, starve, and crave for a meal a day. This incident and the innocent smile brought in hundreds of thoughts in my mind and a message to the present youths.
Nice one..:)
ReplyDeletebeautifully written ..the experience....Sushma Bharath..as you said there are many like this guard ...nice article ...after reading this a simple smile appears on our face too...
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