Friday 22 January 2010

Good life ...

The first para of this post was written 2 weeks back and I hit a block not knowing what I really wanted,reading an article about Servant class ( which i had posted in previous post) gave me the opening to
write this.. so here it is friends.

Last year or the year earlier , I remember seeing an advertisement in a national daily. The ad appeared
at the right bottom corner of first page. I think it was an ad for a credit card by a bank.
It  featured a happy lady in focus, smiling and its puported to be she is so, due to her happy shopping experience.Lady must have been in her late 20's or early 30.
Few steps behind her was a man, out of focus, (this isn' a gender issue, so you can substitute it as "person" :)  ) in a concierge uniform carrying a lot of those fancy shopping bags.
I wondered why the ad didn't picture the lady carrying atleast one.
Why couldn't she carry atleast one of "Her" bags ?
Why can't politicians open their own car door?

Is good life a life where we do nothing and everything is taken care by servants.? Doesn't it resemble the life
ages ago in Kingdoms ruled by Kings. Are we going back to same lifestyle with all these advances made by us in recent centuries?
When a man builds an apartment worth billions of dollars where I saw another man washing his clothes in that
ditch  which circumvents SAHARA hotel opposite the domestic airport in Mumbai what else can I think of?

We all need helping hands definetly, when we check in at a hotel we need a helping hand to lift the huge suitcase over the stairs as we gotta carry hand baggage too.
We all know we have terrible 18th century infrastructure in railway stations where with no escalators or lifts so we have to make use of Coolie service.
Its a sad fact that their political masters don't care to help them migrate from what they do now to better careers. And neither these incompetent robbers(politicians)allow better infrastructure such as lifts/escalators.
Maids, servants will always be there its only when they are expected to perform more than a
maid or servant's job spec it tends to cross the line.

Thousands ofyears ago men carried their load on  their head, now we still do how pathetic..

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