Sometimes I wonder
whether I am Buddha, Jesus Christ or Gandhi as I 'SAY THANK YOU' in almost
every moment of my life, as I suppose my self elevated to these great men's
platform, some how!
Its almost like a machine I 'SAY THANK YOU' & move on with the next thing
at hand and in most of the cases I 'SAY THANK YOU', the people who got it
from me never EARNED THE ‘THANK YOU’ I gave them, as they must have done ABSOLUTE
NOTHING to me in the matter of quality, quantity or any other thing of
existence; still I keep saying 'THANK YOU'! And, if I, out of some extreme
reason, forgot to say 'THANK YOU', I feel like I DID something wrong & 'SAY
THANK YOU' the very next moment and feel relieved!
HENCE, NOW I
KEEP THANKING
the reservation clerk at the railway station, who deals with every one rudely
because 'HIS MASTER WIFE' treats him ill every day, for doing his duty of
reserving a ticket, in the most awkward & rudest of the ways possible, the
bus conductor who seldom gives back the change in one pretext or the other, the
various service providers mushrooming all over the country who never know what
service is, the teacher who never teaches my children anything as she never ever
got a proper education or will have ever, the bank employees who make the
easiest possible money transaction the most difficult in the world, all those
wonderful people – including the very efficient & public oriented
public servants, government people, pick pockets, various categories of tax men
(Always worse than the cavemen!), various departments of service in private
& public sector etc - who take money from my pocket without me ever
knowing, the education minister who did all the sort of ruining of the entire
education system, the shopkeepers who always give much less than what is paid
for without me knowing ever, the postmen, who in the last 7 years, delivered
letters to our address ONLY when they felt it like delivering – Which happened
only a couple of times, in this short span of 7 years!-, the civil supplies
minister who illegally & arbitrarily disconnected our gas connection which
we have been using for the last 8 years, the men at the petrol bunks who always
waste a large number of drops of the precious oil outside the petrol tank while
lifting the petrol pump hurriedly from the petrol tank of the vehicle just
before the completion of the flow for which one pays without fail, the hotelier
who makes idlies, dosas etc that small (Ofcourse for a fortune!) that even the
mighty Lilliputians marvel about their tiny sizes, the Director General cum CEO
cum CFO cum Dean cum the Vice Chancellor of the gas agency which put our gas
documents into the waste bin & looked in the other direction, the
magnanimous service provider who frequently puts caller tunes into our mobiles
& fleece us without ever asking us, the grocery shop man who always charges
one or two rupee extra on the 'Indian Government Approved MRP' (Is
MRP Malpractice in Retail Pricing??!),
the milk man who adulterates milk with whatever comes handy, the VIP
Dignitaries who always arrive, at the least, a couple of hours late, the
traffic & other POLICE MEN WHO STEAL MONEY FROM ONE'S POCKETS IN THE
NAME OF LAW, the repair man who repaired the undamaged part of my lap top,
the hotelier who always serves the worst, sub standard & unhygienic, the
government employee (who survives as a leach or a parasite on the money common
man like me/you pay/s all one's life!) who ASKES FOR 'SOMETHING' TO GREASE
HIS HANDS TO DO THE DUTY HE/SHE IS 'COMMONMANLY' PAID FOR, the
industries which drastically pollute our living environment, the neighbour who
tramples –‘Deliberately Unknowingly’!- on the plants & saplings I
plant in my place & pour hot water on them that they may never grow up
against HER MIGHTY WILL, the PWD department & other people friendly
departments concerned which lay such beautiful roads that my vehicle (And, all
other people’s vehicles, as well!) always get damaged that I get fleeced by the
Greedy Repairers of the Well Registered & Well Certified Workshops, the RTOs who, as GOD, declare “Let
There Be Driving Licences 'To Kill' In Every Body's Pocket”, the doctor
who ALWAYS FINDS OUT SOMETHING WHICH SHOULD BE 'THOROUGHLY' DIAGNOSED WITH
ALL THE EQUIPMENTS AWAILABLE IN THE HOSPITAL HE WORKS IN OR THE CLINIC HE RUNS,
the local rowdies who in the light & softened phrase of 'Eve Teasers' do whatever they wish to do, ‘the
Friendly Neighbourhood Waste Dumper’ (Ofcourse and always into your piece
of land & home!), the so called AC theatres, buses, trains etc where the
ACs are seldom switched on, in the name of consumer/customer/commuter
convenience, the Known & Unknown Great Personalities who poisonously
adulterate all the food items I/we eat and all the other great men who are
there in the world!
My son asked me
whether ‘THANK YOU’ is something that should be given to those who have done
nothing or who do things as their duty taking money out of one’s pocket?! He also
suggested that if he has to say ‘THANK YOU’ to his teacher after the class the
teacher should also say ‘THANK YOU’ to him that there exist some parity, as,
according to his great wisdom, the teacher is teaching him taking money out of
his pocket, that is his father’s pocket, which should be RIGHTLY THANKED every
time he thanked the teacher! I liked his logic! Though I say ‘THANK YOU’ day
in & day out, I am still unsure if this is not an extremely foolish thing
that we do quite often, aping the West blindly in our culture &
environment, which is a whole world different from that of the West?! Still,
I know it is the ONLY WAY by which I can get myself into the league of a
Buddha or Gandhi; hence, I continue saying ‘THANK YOU’!
I came to know from very trustable sources
that there are even great ‘THANK YOU’ COURSES (Most of them heavily subsidised
by the various state & central governments, which always think pro poor!)
where one learns to say ‘THANK YOU’ ceremoniously, in multiple styles &
with great sound modulation & enthusiasm etc, in all the situations where
there is NO NEED TO SAY ‘THANK YOU’ AT ALL & THAT TOO TO THE THANKLESS &
SENSELESS PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS WALKS OF LIFE! In these courses they also
make one master the art of saying ‘THANK YOU’ even when one is killed or
murdered! Hence, we have lakhs & lakhs of great people among us who have
completed these government sponsored & heavily subsidised ‘THANK YOU’
COURSES successfully, who (can) say ‘THANK YOU’ SUCCESSFULLY WITH GREAT SOUND
MODULATION & DEPTH TO ‘THE DOCTORS WHO HAVE THE LICENCE TO KILL AND USE IT
EFFICIENTLY’!
THESE MILLIONS
OF GREAT MEN SAY ‘THANK YOU DOCTOR’ SUCCESSFULLY WITH GREATLY TRAINED STYLE
& GRANDEUR
- WHO MORE OFTEN
THAN NOT ARE ABLE TO WAVE A LIFE OFF THE EARTH BY JUST ANOTHER FAULTY DIAGNOSIS
& THE TRAINED COSTLY & AT THE SAME TIME TOTALLY INEFFECIENT REMEDIAL
MEASURES AT THEIR DISPOSAL! - JUST BEFORE THEY CLOSE THEIR EYES
FOR THE LAST TIME, THANKS TO THE GREAT, EXPENSIVE & AT THE SAME TIME
GROSSILY ERRONEOUS & INEFFICIENT TREATMENT THEY ARE GIVEN BY THESE ‘LICENCED
TO KILL’ DOCS! Ofcourse, they are no less people than the all time greats
such as Buddha, Christ, Gandhi and
others & a humble me too try my level best by saying ‘THANK YOU’, right
& left, night & day to get in & remain in their GREAT CIRCLE OF
IMMORTALS!
